Hinrichs Lab - Alumni
Click image to see list of
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. |
Kevin Becker | 2016 |
Biogeochemical significance and biomarker potential of novel glycerolipids and respiratory qinones in the marine environment. |
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. |
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 |