Former Group Leaders

Albers, Sonja-Verena - Max Planck Research Group Leader, 2008-2014
Full Professor for Microbiology at the University of Freiburg
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Basse, Christoph - Department of Organismic Interactions, 2001-2008
Project group leader at the Department of Genetics, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology - KIT, Institute for Applied Biosciences
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Braker, Gesche - Department of Biogeochemistry, 2001-2012
Director Postdoc Center, Kiel University
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Bremer, Erhard - Department of Biochemistry, 1992-1995
Full Professor of Microbiology at the Philipps-Universität Marburg
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Buckel, Wolfgang - Max-Planck Fellow, 2008 - 2017
Emeritus of Microbiology, Philipps-University Marburg.

Diepold, Andreas - Department of Ecophysiology, Research Group Leader, 2017 - 2024
Professor in Applied Biosciences at the Karlsruhe Institute for Technology.
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Djamei, Armin - Department of Organismic Interactions, Project group leader 2012-2013
Group leader at Gregor Mendel Institute of Molecular Plant Biology GmbH, Vienna, Austria
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Dumont, Marc - Department of Biogeochemistry, 2014-2015
Lecturer in Environmental Microbiology at the University of Southamptom
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Döhlemann, Gunther - Department of Organismic Interactions, 2009-2014
Professor for Terrestrial Microbiology at the University of Cologne, Institute for Genetics, Cluster of Excellence on Plant Sciences (CEPLAS)
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van der Does, Chris - Department of Ecophysiology, 2007-2014
Group leader at the University of Freiburg
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Drescher, Knut - Max Planck Research Group Leader, 2014-2021
Associate Professor at Biozentrum University of Basel, Switzerland
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Dunfield, Peter - Department of Biogeochemistry, 2000-2004
Associate Professor of Microbiology at the University of Calgary, Alberta, Canada
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Elsholz, Alexander - Department of Ecophysiology, 2015-2016
Chief Operating Officer at the Max Planck Unit for the Science of Pathogens, Berlin
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Endesfelder, Ulrike - Department of Systems and Synthetic Microbiology, 2014-2020
Full Professor, Institut für Mikrobiologie und Biotechnologie, Universität Bonn
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Feldbrügge, Michael - Department of Organismic Interactions, 2000-2009
Full Professor for Microbiology at the University Düsseldorf
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Fischer, Reinhard - Department of Biochemistry, 1994-2004
Full Professor for Microbiology at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)
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Franken, Philipp - Department of Biochemistry, 1995-2002
Full Professor for Molecular Phytopathology at the Friedrich Schiller University Jena
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Frenzel, Peter Prof. - Department of Biogeochemistry, 2001-2014
Retired
Friedrich, Michael - Department of Biochemistry, Project group leader 1997-2008
Full Professor at Universität Bremen
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Hedderich, Reiner - Department of Biochemistry, 1994-2004, Department of Ecophysiology, 2004-2009
Laboratory head at Merck Life Science KGaA
Higgs, Penelope - Department Ecophysiology, 2005-2013
Associate Professor at the Department of Biological Sciences, Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan
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Jahn, Dieter - Department of Biochemistry, 1992-1996
Full Professor of Microbiology at the University Braunschweig
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Janssen, Peter - Department of Biogeochemistry , 1993-1996
Research Group Leader at AgResearch, Palmerston North, New Zealand
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Kämper, Jörg - Department of Organismic Interactions, 2000-2007
Full Professor of Genetics at the University Karlsruhe
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Liesack, Werner - Department of Biogeochemistry, 1992 - 2011; Independent Research Group Leader, 2011 - 2022
retired
Lill, Roland - Max-Planck Fellow, 2009 - 2014
Full Professor of Cytobiology at the Philipps-University Marburg
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Link, Hannes - Emmy Noether Research Group Leader, 2015 - 2020
Professor for Bacterial Metabolomics at the University of Tübingen
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Muskhelishvili, Georgi - Department of Organismic Interactions: 2000-2003
Full Professor of Molecular Genetics at Jacobs-University Bremen
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Niederholtmeyer, Henrike - Emmy Noether Research Group Leader, 2020 - 2023
Tenure Track Assistant Professor for Synthetic Biology, Technical University of Munich.
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Randau, Lennart - Max Planck Research Group Leader, 2010-2019
Heisenberg Professor for Prokaryotic RNA Biology, Department Genetic at the Philipps University of Marburg
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Reinhold-Hurek, Barbara - Department-independent research group "Symbiosis": 1996-1999
Full Professor of Microbiology at the University Bremen
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Ringgard, Simon - Department of Ecophysiology, 2014-2020
Full Professor in Cellular Microbiology at the Ludwig-Maximilian University of Munich
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Schnell, Sylvia - Department of Biogeochemistry, 1995-2000
Full Professor for General and Soil Microbiology at the University Gießen
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Schirawski, Jan - Department of Organismic Interactions, 2003-2009
Full Professor of Microbial Genetics at the Institute of Applied Microbiology, RWTH Aachen
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Steinberg, Gero - Department of Organismic Interactions, 2000-2007
Full Professor and Chair for Cell Biology at the University of Exeter, Great Britain
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Stukenbrock, Eva H - Max Planck Research Group Leader, 2012-2014
Full Professor at the University of Kiel and Max Planck Institute of Evolutionary Biology, Ploen
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Thanbichler, Martin - Max Planck Research Group Leader, 2007-2014
Full Professor for Microbiology at the University of Marburg
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Thormann, Kai - Department Ecophysiology, 2007-2013
Full Professor for Microbiology at the University of Gießen
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Ullrich, Matthias - Department-independent research group "Ecophysiology", 1996-2001
Full Professor of Microbiology at the Jacobs-University Bremen
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Ulrich, Helle - Department-independent BioFuture Group, 2001-2004
Scientific Director, Institute of Molecular Biology (IMB), Mainz and Professor, Faculty of Biology, University of Mainz
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Vorholt, Julia - Department of Biochemistry, 1997-2001
Professor of Microbiology at the ETH Zürich
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Völker, Uwe - Department of Biochemistry, 1996-2002
Professor for Functional Genomics at the University Greifswald
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Zuccaro, Alga - Max Planck Research Group Leader, 2010-2014
Professor for Ecological Genetics of Microbes at the University of Cologne
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