Group leader
I study molecular fingerprints of present and past microbial life and interactions of microbes with geochemical cycles and climate. My main tools are lipidomics via high-resolution mass spectrometry, compound-specific stable isotope analysis, experimental microbiology, phylogenetics and biochemical analyses.
Jan Kleint
Postdoc
I develop state-of-the-art analytical tools such as an in situ mass spectrometer to study greenhouse gas cycling in aquatic systems and their release to the atmosphere and the spooling-wire microcombustion-IRMS to reveal the isotopic systematics of organic compounds.
Molecular Geobiology 