Dr. Simon Benk

2021

Former Project: A02
Supervisor: Gerd Gleixner

PhD thesis: "Towards a data-driven understanding of dissolved organic matter in the Critical Zone"

Current: Postdoctoral researcher in project A02 in the CRC AquaDiva at MPI-BGC Jena

Dr. Su Ding (associated)

2019

Former project: A02
Supervisor: Gerd Gleixner (MPI-BGC Jena)

PhD thesis: "Biogeochemical importance of membrane lipids for ecosystem research"

Dr. Nawras Ghanem

2019

Former project: A01

Supervisor: Lukas Y. Wick (UFZ Leipzig)

PhD thesis: "Phages as vectors and indicators of biological information in the Earth's Critical Zone (PHAGE)"

Dr. Tobias Jochum 

2017

Former project: B03

Supervisor: Torsten Frosch (IPHT Jena)

PhD thesis: "Highly sensitive Raman spectroscopy of biogenic gases"

Dr. Swatantar Kumar (associated) 

2018

Former project: A03

Supervisor: Kirsten Küsel, Martina Herrmann (FSU Jena)

PhD thesis: "Elucidation of the Microbial Nitrogen Cycle in the Subsurface - Key Microbial Players and Processes"

Current: Postdoctoral researcher at the Biological Sciences Division, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA  99352 USA

Dr. Katharina Lehmann

2018

Former Project: C03

Supervisor: Kai Uwe Totsche (FSU Jena)

PhD thesis: "Tracking the release, transport, and transformation of soil-borne colloids"

Current: Postdoctoral researcher in project C05 in the CRC AquaDiva, Jena

Dr. Johanna Metzger

2021

Former Project: B02

Supervisor: Anke Hildebrandt

PhD thesis: "Hotspots of soil water movement induced by vegetation canopies"

Dr. Ali Nawaz

2019 (summa cum laude)

Former Project: A03

Supervisors: François Buscot, Tesfaye Wubet (UFZ Halle)

PhD thesis: "Microbiome of the terrestrial subsurface aquifer system in the Hainich Critical Zone Exploratory"

Current: Postdoctoral researcher at Chair of Urban Water Systems Engineering, Department of Civil, Geo and Environmental Engineering, TU Munich

Dr. Martin Nowak (associated) 

2017

Former project: B03

Supervisor: Susan Trumbore (MPI-BGC Jena)

PhD thesis: "The role of microbial CO₂ fixation for belowground carbon cycling and its influence on carbon isotopic signatures"

Current: Data Scientist at dotSource GmbH, Jena

Dr. Carsten Simon  (associated)

2020

Former project: A02
Supervisors: Gerd Gleixner (MPI-BGC Jena)

PhD thesis: "Identification of ecosystem-specific markers in terrestrial dissolved organic matter (DOM) by Orbitrap mass spectrometry"

Dr. Thomas Behrendt

Former project: B03 (group Prof. Trumbore, MPI-BGC Jena)

Current: Postdoctoral researcher in Australia

Nicolas Dalla Valle

Former project: B02 (group Prof. Reichstein, MPI-BGC Jena)

Benny Fischer

Former project: C03 (group Prof. Totsche, FSU Jena)

Michael Gaspar

Former project: A04 (groups Prof. Küsel and Prof. Marz, FSU Jena)

Current: ‎zollsoft GmbH

Dr. Katharina Roß

Former project: B04 (group Prof. Attinger, UFZ Leipzig)

Current: Research Associate, ‎Fraunhofer Institute for High-Speed Dynamics, Ernst-Mach-Institut, EMI

Dr. Vanessa-Nina Roth

Former project: A02 (group Prof. Gleixner, MPI-BGC Jena)