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PhD defenses

   

MSc defenses

Postdocs

Rishi Adhikari	2013-2019		Research associate; DFG-Project Bengal Fan (2016-2018)
Susanne Alfken	2019-2023		Research scientist (ERC Project "ZOOMecular", EXC "Ocean Floor"); next position at Bruker Daltonics
Marshall Bowles	2011-2013		MARUM Cluster Fellow; after MARUM: LUMCON, USA
Solveig Bühring	2004-2010		MARUM Cluster Fellow; next position: Emmy No­ether Group "Hydrothermal Geomicrobiology"
Sarah Coffinet	2016-2020		Research scientist; after MARUM: Marie-Curie Fellow at CNRS (Université Rennes)
Friederike Ebersbach	2015-2018		Research associate; Central Research Development Fund; after MARUM: Private industry
Thomas Evans	2021-2022		Research scientist (EXC "Ocean Floor"); next position: Shell B.V. Nederland
Martin Könneke	2012-2021		Senior scientist, DFG-Heisenberg Group "Archaeal Life in the Ocean" (since 2016), after MARUM: Prof.  for "Benthic Microbiology" at ICBM
Yu-Shih Lin	2009-2012		Research scientist; after MARUM: National Sun Yat-Sen University, Taiwan
Xiaolei-Liu	2011-2014		Research scientist; after MARUM: MIT;   University of Oklahoma, USA
Rainer Lohmann	Jan-Nov 2004		Fulbright Research Fellow; after MARUM: University of Rhode Island, USA
Travis Meador	2010-2017		Research associate; ERC Project "DARCLIFE", DFG-Project PAPAA; after MARUM: Soil & Water Research Infrastructure, Biology Centre CAS, Czechia
Tiffany Napier	2019-2021		Research scientist (Project Indian Monsoon variability); after MARUM: Syracuse University, USA
Eoghan Reeves	2010-2012		MARUM Cluster Fellow, after MARUM: University of Bergen
Frauke Schmidt	2011-2016		Research associate; ERC Project "DARCLIFE"
Nadine Smit	2021-2023		Research scientist (EXC "Ocean Floor"); next position at Bruker Daltonics
Gerardus Versteegh	2009-2014		DFG Project MOCCHA II (2008-2011); DFG-Heisenberg-Group "From Biomolecule to Geomolecule"; next position: Marine Geochemistry group at AWI
Marcos Yoshinaga	2008-2016		Alexander von Humboldt Fellow (2008-2010), Postdoc Researcher (2010-2016); after MARUM: University of Sao Paulo
Chun (Charlie) Zhu	2010-2014		MARUM Cluster Fellow; after MARUM: Cardiff University, UK; ExxonMobil
Qing-Zeng Zhu	2019-2024		Research scientist (EXC "Ocean Floor"); next position at Stockholm University

 

PhDs

Susanne Alfken	2019	Refining molecular stratigraphythroughmass spectrometry imaging of sedimentsat sub-millimeter resolution. Next position: MARUM (AG Hinrichs)
Kevin Becker	2016	Biogeo­chem­ical sig­ni­fic­ance and bio­marker po­ten­tial of novel gly­cer­ol­ipids and res­pir­at­ory qinones in the mar­ine en­vir­on­ment. Next positions: Woods Hole, USA; GEOMAR, Kiel
Jonas Brünjes	2023	Petroleum-derived dissolved organic matter from seepage in deep sea sediments. Next position: University of Toronto
Felix Elling	2016	Factors con­trolling the lipid com­pos­i­tion of mar­ine plank­tonic Thrau­marchae­ota. Next positions: Harvard, USA; Molecular Geobiology Group at CAU Kiel
Tobias Ertefai	2009	The biogeo­chem­ical sig­ni­fic­ance of gaseous hy­dro­car­bons sorbed to mar­ine sed­i­ments.
Thomas W. Evans	2017	Tra­cing the ef­fect of nu­tri­ent and car­bon sup­ply on the bio­syn­thesis and com­pos­i­tion of lip­ids from mar­ine mi­crobes. Next position: MIT, USA
Shuchai Gan	2018	The im­pact of biogeo­chem­ical pro­cesses on the com­pos­i­tion of dis­solved or­ganic mat­ter in mar­ine sub­sur­face sed­i­ments.
Oliver Helten	2024	Disposal of heat-emitting high-level nuclear waste in claystone formations: a hot topic tackled by heating experiments with Opalinus Clay.
Matthias Kellermann	2012	Lipid bio­molecules re­veal pat­terns of mi­cro­bial meta­bol­ism in ex­treme en­vir­on­ments. After MARUM: UC Santa Barbara, USA
Arne Leider	2012	Lipid bio­marker prox­ies: Cal­ib­ra­tion and ap­plic­a­tion at the south­ern Italian shelf (Cent­ral Medi­ter­ranean). Next position: MPI Biogechemistry, Jena and MARUM
Yu-Shih Lin	2009	In vitro study of mi­cro­bial car­bon cyc­ling in sub­sea­floor sed­i­ments. Next position: MARUM (postdoc)
Julius Lipp	2008	Intact membrane lipids as tracers for microbial life in the marine deep biosphere. Next position: MARUM (AG Hinrichs)
Xiaolei Liu	2011	Gly­cerol ether lip­ids in sed­i­ments: sources, di­versity and im­plic­a­tions. Next position: MARUM (postdoc)
Pamela Rossel	2009	Mi­cro­bial com­munit­ies per­form­ing an­aer­obic ox­id­a­tion of meth­ane: di­versity of lipid sig­na­tures and hab­it­ats. After MARUM: ICBM, University of Oldenburg, Germany; GFZ Potsdam
Frauke Schmidt	2009	Mo­lecu­lar level stud­ies on the dis­tri­bu­tion and fate of or­ganic mat­ter at con­tin­ental mar­gins. Next position: MARUM (AG Hinrichs)
Jan Schröder	2015	Biogeo­chem­ical sig­ni­fic­ance and bio­marker po­ten­tial of novel gly­cer­ol­ipids and res­pir­at­ory qinones in the mar­ine en­vir­on­ment. Next position: Private industry
Florence Schubotz	2009	Mi­cro­bial com­munity char­ac­ter­iz­a­tion and car­bon turnover in meth­ane-rich mar­ine en­vir­on­ments - case stud­ies in the Gulf of Mex­ico and the Black Sea.  Next positions: MIT, USA; MARUM (AG Hinrichs)
Julio C. Sepulveda	2008	Eco­lo­gical and en­vir­on­mental con­sequences of Oceanic An­oxic Events and the Creta­ceous-Pa­leo­gene mass ex­tinc­tion event: a mo­lecu­lar-iso­topic ap­proach. After MARUM: University of Colorado Boulder, USA
Min Song	2020	Gaseous hydrocarbon cycling and lipid biogeochemistry in cold and hot seep sediments. After MARUM: University of Toronto (Sherwood Lollar Research Group)
Gunter Wegener	2008	Methane oxidation and carbon assimilation in marine sediments. Next position: MPI Bremen
Weichao Wu	2018	Mi­cro­bial activ­ity in mar­ine sed­i­ment con­strained via lipid-based stable iso­tope prob­ing. After MARUM: Uni Göttingen
Sitan Xie	2012	Or­ganic-geo­chem­ical stud­ies of mi­cro­bial lip­ids and car­bon flow in oxy­gen-de­fi­cient mar­ine en­vir­on­ments.
Rong Zhu	2014	Cell wall com­pon­ents and in­tact mem­brane lip­ids as prox­ies for in­vest­ig­a­tions of mi­cro­bial com­munit­ies in the deep bio­sphere. After MARUM: ETH Zürich
Qing-Zeng Zhu	2019	Stable carbon isotopic studies of microbial lipids from distinct geochemical marine environments. Next position: Postdoc (EXC "Ocean Floor")
Guangchao Zhuang	2014	Methylo­trophic meth­ano­gen­esis and po­ten­tial methyl­ated sub­strates in mar­ine sed­i­ments. After MARUM: Ocean University of China, Qingdao

 

Masters

Rebecca Aepfler	2015	Position-specific 13C labeling in amino acids: A versatile tool to decipher lipid biosynthetic pathways and microbial community response in marine environments.
Oluwatobi Akinrinmade	2022	Intact Polar Lipids as life signals in the deep biosphere of Lake Constance, Germany.
Susanne Alfken	2015	Laser-based assessment of short-term climate fluctuations - Validation and application of LDI FTICR-MS as a tool for ultra-high-resolution molecular stratigraphy. Next position: PhD student
Marlene Bausch	2008	Mo­lecu­lar sig­na­tures of bio­lo­gical soil crusts and salt lakes of South Aus­tralia.
Kevin Becker	2011	Im­proved chro­ma­to­graphic sep­ar­a­tion of ar­chaeal Gly­cerol Dial­kyl Gly­cerol Tet­raethers and its ap­plic­a­tion to sed­i­ments from the Medi­ter­ranean and Black Seas. Next position: PhD student
Brenna Boehman	2019	Fine-scale timing of environmental changes at the BA-YD transition in the Cariaco Basin revealed by molecular stratigraphy at sub-annual resolution.
Janina Bösche	2020	A comprehensive study of molecular signatures associated with the anoxic oxidation of methane in the deep biosphere off Argentina. Next position: PhD student (EXC "Ocean Floor")
Nadine Broda	2014	Ef­fect of growth tem­per­at­ure on mo­lecu­lar and stable car­bon iso­topic com­pos­i­tion of the ther­mo­philic genus Ammonifex. Next position: Universität Oldenburg
Jonas Brünjes	2018	Experimental studies on the fate of dissolved petroleum compounds of a natural asphalt seep in the Gulf of Mexico. Next position: PhD student (MARUM)
Nadine Buchs	2008	Analysis of prokaryotic biomass in the marine deep subsurface by lipid-based methods.
Farukh Bukhari	2023	The rhizosphere microbiome of salt marshes: dependency on vegetation cover and impact on methane fluxes.
Felix Elling	2012	Mi­cro­bial car­bon cyc­ling in the hy­per­saline an­oxic Orca Basin, north­ern Gulf of Mex­ico. Next position: PhD student
Niroshan Gajendra	2018	High-res­ol­u­tion ima­ging of bio­marker dis­tri­bu­tions in mi­cro­bial mats of the Yel­low­stone Na­tional Park. Next position:  ETH Zurich (PhD student)
Nestor Gaviria	2018	Spatial distribution and structural variation of IPLs in Guaymas Basin sediments.
Sebastian Gfellner	2020	Opening the archives of lipid biomarkers and molecular proxies in living microbial mats and corals and their corresponding carbonate facies via (MA)LDI-FTICR-MS
Nadine Goldenstein	2012	Mi­cro­bial eco­logy in deep sea hy­dro­thermal vent sys­tems: A novel ap­proach for lipid bio­marker stud­ies on hy­dro­thermal sulf­ide de­pos­its.
Andreas Greve	2016	High res­ol­u­tion ima­ging of spa­tially struc­tured mi­cro­bial com­munit­ies with LDI-FTICR-MS and μXRF: bio­marker dis­tri­bu­tion and ele­mental map­ping in Ant­arc­tic mi­cro­bial mats on the mi­cro­meter scale. Next position: MPI Bremen (PhD student)
Janina Groninga	2021	Micrometer-scaled vertical profiling of microbial communities in the hydrothermal sediments of the Guaymas Basin using high-resolution mass spectrometry imaging of intact polar lipids.
Kai Hachmann	2020	Lipid and metabolite analysis of 13C incubations and environmental samples targeting iron coupled AOM in lake sediments.
Corinna Harms	2008	Di­versity of in­tact po­lar lip­ids in an ex­treme acidic en­vir­on­ment: The Río Tinto, Spain (Diplom).
Oliver Helten	2018	Abi­otic, mi­cro­bial sub­strate gen­er­a­tion from Nankai Trough sed­i­ment­ary or­ganic mat­ter through high P-T hydrous pyro­lysis ex­per­i­ments. Next position: BGR and PhD student at AG Hinrichs
Stanislav Jabinski	2018	De­vel­op­ment of a method to track mi­cro­bial activ­ity by ul­tra-high mi­cro­bial activ­ity by ul­tra-high res­ol­u­tion mass spec­tro­metry iso­tope pat­tern match­ing. Next position: Biology Centre CAS (PhD student)
Matthias Kellermann	2008	Lipid bio­mark­ers of thio­trophic and meth­an­o­trophic sym­bionts in dif­fer­ent Ba­thy­mo­dio­lus mus­sel spe­cies: che­mi­cal and iso­to­pic ana­ly­sis. Next position: PhD student
Gina Kuipers	2013	Dual stable isotope probing using the labels 13C-bicarbonate and D2O to investigate archaeal metabolic pathways.
Palash Kumawat	2022	Characterization of microbial lipid patterns in serpentinite seafloor deposits. Next position: PhD student
Dan-Frederik Lange	2020	Water column turnover of position-specifically 13C-labelled amino acids in the shelf region off Cape Blanc
Arne Leider	2007	High-res­ol­u­tion stud­ies of lipid bio­mark­ers de­pos­ited dur­ing Oceanic An­oxic Event 3 (OAE 3) in the west­ern trop­ical At­lantic (Dem­er­ara rise, ODP Leg 207 site 1259C). Next position: PhD student
Alex Manthey	2022	Changes in biosignatures of microbial communities associated to active and inactive vents at the East Pacific Rise.
Lara Meyer	2018	Comparing microbial signatures in modern and ancient serpentinite-systems.
Tobias Mohr	2005	Intact polar lipids as biomarkers for microbial ecology in anoxic freshwater environments.
Lukas Mühlena	2020	Investigating the biosynthesis of novel tetraether-based membrane lipids in the methanogen M. luminyensis by combining stable isotope probing with high-resolution mass spectrometry.
Nina Rohlfs	2019	Molecular-proxy based calibration of ocean paleothermometers for mass spectrometry imaging based applications.
Lea Schabernack	2024	Analysis of Dipicolinic Acid by Liquid Chromatography-Tandem Mass Spectrometry: A new Method for the Investigation of Endospores in deep, hot Sediments of the Guaymas Basin, Gulf of California (IODP Expedition 385).
Florence Schubotz	2005	Investigation of intact polar lipids of bacteria isolated from the deep marine subsurface.
Christopher Schwerdhelm (former Vogel)	2018	Un­rav­el­ing amino acid turnover in a sub­mar­ine shal­low-wa­ter hy­dro­thermal en­vir­on­ment ap­ply­ing po­s­i­tion-spe­cific stable iso­tope prob­ing of fatty acids.  Next position: Geomicrobiology Group U Tübingen (PhD student)
Sina Simon	2016	Degradation of polyethylene by microorganisms from North Sea sediment.
Nadine Smit	2015	Geochemical characterization of asphalt deposits in the Campeche Bay (southern Gulf of Mexico)- Insights in the persistence of heavy oil in the marine environment. Next position: NIOZ (PhD student)
Tim Stoltmann	2014	Im­ple­ment­a­tion and val­id­a­tion of a new IRIS for the ana­lysis of dis­solved in­or­ganic car­bon in mar­ine pore wa­ters. Next position: Laboratoire Interdisciplinaire de Physique (PhD student)
Florian Sulz	2017	Pathways for the export of archaeal lipids in the upwelling area off Cape Blanc, NW Africa, coast of Mauritania.
Stefanie Tille	2006	Mo­lecu­lar and iso­topic in­vest­ig­a­tions about the early dia­gen­esis in mar­ine sed­i­ments: volat­ile fatty acids as key meta­bol­ites in the deep bio­sphere (Diplom).
Monika Trümper	2005	Lake sed­i­ments as archives for at­mo­spher­ic­ally trans­por­ted pol­lut­ants and aquatic eco­lo­gical changes in the in­dus­trial era (1800 - present) (Diplom).
Konrad Winkels	2018	Investigation of monosaccharide diversity in the glycosidic headgroups of microbial membrane lipids.
Tianyi Wu	2018	The im­pact of min­eral phase on the de­tect­ab­il­ity of lipid bio­mark­ers by Laser De­sorp­tion Ion­iz­a­tion Mass Spec­tro­metry.
Yannick Zander	2023	Seeking seasonal signals in geochemical compounds at the Pleistocene-Holocene transition in MSI data from the Cariaco Basin. Next position: PhD student
Jasper Zöbelein	2021	The applicability of qToF-MS based methods to analyse isotopically labelled lipids demonstrated on Escherichia coli.

 

Other positions

Jessica Arndt	2009-2016	Technician
Nadine Goldenstein	2013-2017	PhD student
Raika Himmelsbach	2009-2014	Technician
Laura Hmelo	2003-2004	Technician, after MARUM: Woods Hole, MIT-WHOI Joint Program
Stefanie Luers	2006-2008	Technician
Evert Kramer	2011-2022	Computing officer
Xavier Prieto	2004-2021	Technician, next position at BfR (Bundesinstitut für Risikobewertung)
Birgit Schmincke	2002-2017	Secretary
Bernhard Viehweger	2016-2019	PhD student, next: Thünen-Institut, Bremerhaven
Jin-Xiang Wang	2015-2017	PhD student

 

Birgit Schmincke

Secretary from 2002 - August 2017

Birgit was one of the first members who built up the HinrichsLab. She was always highly appreciated as a competent, helpful and friendly colleague and group member until her death in August 2017.