Members

Coordinator

• Prof. Dr. Joachim Reitner

Principal investigators

• Prof. Dr. Thomas Friedl, Evolution of Algae and Cyanobacteria
• Prof. Dr. Hans-Joachim Fritz, Genetics and Molecular Biology
• Prof. Dr. Bent Hansen, Isotope Geochemistry
• PD Dr. Jochen Heinrichs, Department of Systematic Botany (AvH)
• PD Dr. Michael Hoppert, Department General Microbiology
• Prof. Dr. Burkhard Morgenstern, Bioinformatics
• Prof. Dr. Volker Thiel, Biogeochemistry

Principal investigators Guests and alumnae

• Dr. Martin Blumenberg
• Prof. Dr. Robbert Gradstein, Evolution of Land Plants
• Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Liebl, Microbiology
• Prof. Dr. Hubertus Porada
• Dr. Nadia Queric
• PD Dr. Harald Schneider, Evolution of Land Plants
• Prof. Dr. Gert Wörheide, Molecular Geo- and Palaeobiology

CRC Office

• Marie-France Hesse

Junior research group "Geomicrobiology & Biosignatures in the Deep Biosphere"

• Geomicrobiology and Symbioses lab
• Junior-Prof. Dr. Sharmishtha Dattagupta
• Dr. Nicolas Cerveau
• Dr. Linn Groeneveld
• Karoline Assig
• Jan Bauermeister
• Pia Sternisek
• Anne Wilkening

Junior research group "Evolution of the Metazoa"

• Evolution of the Metazoa lab
• Junior-Prof. Dr. Daniel Jackson
• Dr. Nora Brinkmann
• Jennifer Hohagen

Junior research group "Evolution of Landplants & Development of Terrestrial Ecosystems"

• Evolution of Landplants lab
• PD Dr. Alexander Schmidt
• Dr. Leyla Seyfullah
• Dr. Kahtrin Fehldberg
• Christina Beimforde
• Ariane Busch
• Eva-Maria Sadowski

Others

• Dr. Thomas Bode
• Dr. Frank Wiese
• Anne Dreier
• Juliane Germer
• Axel Hackmann
• Melanie Heinemann
• Dorothea Hause-Reitner
• Miao Lu
• Luciana Macis

alumni

• Soumya Biswas
• Dr. Mahesh S. Desai
• Dr. Jean-Francois Flot
• Julia König
• Verena Kutschera
• Diana Obermann
• Dr. Oliver Piskurek