Team

From left to right: Biswajit Roy, Jan Kleint, Felix Elling, Chris Rosendahl, Xiaoxiao Zhao

We are located at Kiel University, in Ludewig-Meyn-Str. 14, 1st floor, Rooms 112-116

Felix Elling

Email: felling@leibniz.uni-kiel.de
Twitter: @lipidorama
Office: LMS14, Room 114

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.

CV (updated 11/2022)

Jan Kleint

Email: jkleint@marum.de

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.

See also Jan’s website at MARUM

Chris Rosendahl

Email: crosendahl@leibniz.uni-kiel.de
Office: LMS14, Room 115

PhD student

Chris studies how the carbon and hydrogen isotopic composition of archaeal lipids can be used as paleoenvironmental proxies.

Xiaoxiao Zhao

Email: xzhao@leibniz.uni-kiel.de
Office: LMS14, Room 115

PhD student

Xiaoxiao studies how microbes responded to past changes in Earth’s climate.