The Laboratory of Soil Physico-Chemistry and Biogeochemical Technologies was created in April 2024 based on a decision of the Directorate of the Institute, supported by the Academic Council, on the basis of the Laboratory of Soil Physico-Chemistry and the Biogeochemical Technologies Group. Currently, the laboratory includes 12 employees, of which 2 are chief researchers (Doctor of Biological Sciences, Prof. V.N. Bashkin, Doctor of Biological Sciences, Prof. D.L. Pinsky), 4 leading researchers (PhD G.K. Vasilyeva, Doctor of Biological Sciences E.Yu. Malinovsky, Doctor of Biological Sciences V.P. Shabaev, Doctor of Biological Sciences P.A. Shary), senior and junior researchers and engineers.

The main goal of the laboratory's scientific research until 2030 is to study the physicochemical and biogeochemical mechanisms of nature-like biogeochemical technologies to manage the risks of migration and accumulation of pollutants in impact ecosystems as a result of global and local climate changes and economic activities. Research objectives include the development of biogeochemical object-oriented technologies for diagnostics and remediation of disturbed and contaminated soils, technologies for the sorption-biological purification of soils technogenically contaminated with various organic pollutants (PCBs, PAHs, oil and petroleum products), research into the mechanisms for significantly reducing the toxicity of heavy metals when added growth-stimulating rhizosphere bacteria in soils with grown plants, theoretical justification and practical-methodological determination of the form and concentration of introducing brown coal (leonardite) and peat into the soil to restore the structure of chernozem arable soils, development of theoretical and experimental basis for assessing the maximum permissible concentration of HMs in soils, taking into account composition and properties of soils, plant type and properties of metal pollutants, development of biogeochemical standards as MPCs; development of biogeochemical technologies for controlling the microbial block of biogeochemical cycles during reclamation and remediation of impact ecosystems; presentation of the theoretical foundations for assessing geoecological risk in the conditions of technogenesis and its practical application to the operating conditions of impact ecosystems, analysis and assessment of the spatio-temporal relationship between the yield of cultivated crops and climatic environmental factors and relief in the main regions of Siberia. 

Among the most significant achievements of the laboratory include the study of the behavior and functions of heavy metals in the soil-plant system, the patterns and mechanisms of sorption of macro-elements (Ca, Mg, Na, K) and heavy metals (Cd, Cu, Pb, Zn) in the processes of mono- and poly-element sorption. The mechanisms of interaction of HM with the surface of soil particles have also been studied using synchrotron methods (XANES and EXAFS).

The development of biogeochemical standards, in particular, critical loads of acidity and eutrophication, assessment of geoecological risk and maximum permissible concentrations of heavy metals, as soil-ecosystem indicators, was carried out. Soil mechanisms for remediation of Cd and Ni contaminated agro-gray soil using growth-stimulating rhizosphere bacteria have been established. Technologies for sorption-biological remediation of soils contaminated with oil, petroleum products and other persistent organic pollutants are being developed.

A package of biogeochemical technologies has been developed, protected by 16 patents of the Russian Federation, which are used in the practice of various companies in the reclamation and remediation of contaminated and disturbed soils. A large number of monographs and articles have been published in leading Russian and international publishers. Received 3 Prizes named after V.I. Vernadsky and Prize named after. N.K. Baibakov.