TERRA initiative: A joint project on the subject of Africa at the Universities of Hohenheim and Tübingen  'Belowground traits of Kenyan grasslands: Establishing and maintaining functional diversity'

• Sept. 2023-July 2024. A multi-dimensional assessment tool for risk analysis and mitigation in rural space (81302020) GIZ

• 2023-2027. The Intra-Africa Academic Mobility scheme " Mobility 4 Agricultural International Networks Supporting Thematic Resilience and Enhancing Adaptation and Mitigation (MAINSTREAM) funded by EU HORIZON. 

• 2023-2025.  ERASMUS (EU): Cooperation for Holistic Agriculture Innovation Nests (CHAIN) in Sub-Saharan Africa

• 2022 –2025 Research Partner. Future Rural Africa: Future-Making and Social-Ecological Transformation. P05-Infrastructural transformation and Biodiversity. DFG-funded.

• 2021-2031 Strengthening Jaramogi Oginga Odinga University of Science and Technology’s Capacity in Natural Resource Management, Food Security and Health. Institutional University Corporation (IUC), Vlir-Uos, Belgium.

•  2021-2024 -Program Advisor: Capacity Development of Applied Epidemiologists in Eastern Africa Region (CDAE) (CSA2020E-3139). A Project for capacity development for disease outbreak and epidemic response in sub-Saharan Africa funded under the EU-Horizon 2020. EDCTP Grant.

• 2020-2024. Maintenance Mechanism of lower subtropical forest ecosystem service function in China and forests under different Management regimes and impacts of livelihoods in Kenya. International Corporation & Exchange funded by NSFC- National Natural Research Foundation of China. PR of China. Grant number 31961143023.

• 2018. RESEARCH, INNOVATION AND INCUBATION COMPLEX (RIIC) DEVELOPMENT - Jaramogi Oginga Odinga University of Science and Technology. INFRASTRUCTURE GRANT: 2017/2018 FY NRF. National Research Fund, Kenya.

• 2015-2018: Integrated Climate Protection and Resource Conservation in the Lambwe Valley, Kenya. World Vision – Frankfurt, Germany PI-O4/LRO/FY15.  World Vision-Nairobi.

• 2016-2017. Acacias of the Arava: Mechanisms of tree adaptation in the Negev desert, Israel. A research cooperation with the Arava Research Institute, Israel. Bayrische Forschungsalianz (BayIntAnt-support for international cooperation).

• 2011-October -2016-October: Interactive Influence of Land-use and Rainfall on The Structure and Function of the Herbaceous Layer Community of a Moist Tropical Savanna: Ruma, Kenya.  Research grant: British Ecological Society. Ref: 1430/4399. 

• 2011-2014: Controls on ecosystem water use and carbon gain at Mt. Kilimanjaro – differentiation along climate gradients and with land use from the savanna to the alpine zone. In Kilimanjaro ecosystems under global change: Linking biodiversity, biotic interactions and biogeochemical ecosystem processes. Kilimanjaro, Tanzania. Research grant: DFG. KILI-WG-2.

• 2010-2013: Biodiversity, productivity, water and carbon balances of the subtropical forest ecosystems in the Dinghushan Biosphere Forest Reserve in Guangzhou Province, South China. Research grant/fellowship: Grant No. 2009Y2AS5. Chinese Academy of Sciences.

• 2008-2014: Transpiration and water Use Efficiency In Complex Terrain and Ecological Heterogeneity (TERRECO): Evaluating ecosystem services in relation shifts in processes, biotic interactions and biodiversity in mountainous landscapes. DFG.

• May-2009- December: Assessing shifts in plant community composition and overall ecosystem structure and function in the emerging climate scenarios. Ruma, Kenya. Research grant: Overseas Bursary and Fellowship, British Ecological Society. -Ref: 1430/1802.

• 2005 Feb–2008-December: Resource Partitioning and Ecosystem Functioning in a Kenyan Savanna: Ruma National Park-Kenya.  Research grant: International Foundation for Sciences (IFS). -Grant Number D/3930-1

1. Gu Daxing, Jiashuang Qin, Longkang Ni, Dennis Otieno, Wen He,Yuqing Huang, Ping Zhao, Kechao Huang (2021). Stomatal regulation on transpiration is related with hydraulic conductance in an isohydrodynamic plant. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology Volume 311, 15 December 2021, 108664
2. Valeska, Dennis Otieno, Christina Bogner 2019. Climbing up the hills:  expansion of agriculture around the Ruma National Park, Kenya. International Journal of Remote Sensing. DOI: 10.1080/01431161.2019.1591647
3. Winters Gidon, Dennis Otieno, Shabtai Cohen, Christina Bogner, Gideon Ragowloski, Indira Paudel, Tamir Klein (2018). Tree growth and water-use in hyper-arid Acacia occurs during the hottest and driest season. Oecologia doi.org/10.1007/s00442-018-4250-z.
4. Otieno Dennis, Yuelin Li, Yangxu Ou, John Tenunen, Jing Cheng, Shizhong Liu, Xuli Tang, Deqiang Zhang, Guoyi Zhou. 2014. Stand characteristics and water use at two slope positions in a sub-tropical evergreen forest in southern China. Agric. For. Meteorol. 194:155–166.
5. Otieno Dennis, Yuelin Li, Yangxu Ou, John Tenunen, Jing Cheng, Shizhong Liu, Xuli Tang, Deqiang Zhang, Guoyi Zhou. 2014. Stand characteristics and water use at two slope positions in a sub-tropical evergreen forest in southern China. Agric. For. Meteorol. 194:155–166.
6. Otieno Dennis, Steve Lindner, Jahn Muhr and Werner Borken 2012. Sensitivity of peatland grasses to vapor pressure deficit and ground water level fluctuations influences net ecosystem CO2 exchange. Wetlands 32:895–905.
7. Anke Jentsch, Kreyling J., Elmer M., Gellesch E., Glaser B., Grant G., Hein R., Lara M., Mirzae H., Nadler SE., Nagy L., Otieno D., Pritsch K., Rascher U., Schadler M., Schloter M., Singh B.K., Stadler J., Walter J., Wellstein C., Wollecke J., Beierkuhnlein C., 2011. Climate extremes initiate ecosystem-regulating functions while maintaining productivity. Ecology 99:689–702.

• KAAD-MSC and PhD Fellowship Award.

• Chinese Academy of Sciences Fellowship for Young International Scholars