Professor Six’s research focuses on the feedbacks between agroecosystem management options, biogeochemical cycling, food system functioning and global change. More specifically, his group studies how management affects the complex interactions between soil, plants, and carbon and nutrient fluxes within agroecosystems and its implications for food system functioning within a continuously changing global environment. His group conducts experimental work from the microscale to the landscape scale and subsequently integrates its findings into simulation modeling to underpin the mechanistic bases of the used models, and predict agroecosystem and food system functioning across space and time.