Lab Management

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• Steering committee
  

• Technicians
  

• Students
  

Dr.

Alexander Frank

Research Associate

Phone: +49 (0)921/55-2319
Room: GEO I, 125
e-Mail: alexander.frank(at)uni-bayreuth.de

Laboratory Manager of the BayCenSI

Research interests:

• Effects of climate-induced changes on the lake metabolism of clear and oligotrophic lakes using advanced stable isotopes methods
• Effects of dissolved organic matter composition on the microbial and phytoplankton community and its associated metabolome in aquatic environments (lentic and marine)  
• Community metabolomics through High-Resolution Mass Spectrometry

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Prof. Dr.

Johanna Pausch

Juniorprofessor
Agroecology

Phone: +49 921 55 2292
Room: Geo II, 1.16
e-Mail: johanna.pausch(at)uni-bayreuth.de

Junior Professorship Agroecology

Director of the BayCenSI

Research interests:

• Hotspots of C input:  Root-released C in the rhizosphere, C input, and turnover in subsoil biopores
• Rhizosphere processes:  Rhizosphere priming effect, carbon and nutrient turnover, plant-soil-microbe interaction, root-C channeling through the soil food web
• Soil CO₂ efflux:  Flux partitioning, isotope fractionation at the root-soil interface
• Quantification of rhizodeposition on field scales

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Prof. Dr.

Eva Lehndorff

Professor

Phone: +49(0)921/55-5615
Fax: +49(0)921/55-5799
Room: Dr.-HF-Str., C 8
e-Mail: eva.lehndorff(at)uni-bayreuth.de

Head of the Department of Soil Ecology

Research interests:

• Carbon and nutrient cycling in soil: millennial scale vs. short-term ecosystem change
• Soil pollution: accumulation and translocation processes of organic pollutants
• Micro-scale assessment of carbon turnover via laser ablation isotope ratio mass spectrometry 

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Prof.

Tillmann Lüders

Professor

Phone: +49(0)921/55-5640
Fax: +49(0)921/55-5793
Room: Dr.-HF-Str., C3/4
e-Mail: tillmann.lueders(at)uni-bayreuth.de

Vice Director of the BayCEER Steering Committee

Head of the Department of Ecological Microbiology

Research interests:

• Microbial degradation of pollutants in groundwater
• Microbial biofilms in the water cycle
• Microbial interactions in the rhizosphere

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Dr.

Birgit Thies

Research Associate

Phone: +49 (0)921/55-5700
Room: Dr.-HF-Str., A 2.5
e-Mail: birgit.thies(at)uni-bayreuth.de

BayCEER Office

Working fields:

• Science communication and environmental education in the research project AquaKlif (Bavarian Network for Climate Research)
• Strategic advice on developments in the focus field of ecology and environmental sciences
• Debate formats Forum Wasserkontroversen (starting 2021) & Forum Waldkontroversen (2017-2019)
• Alumni networking (BcG Alumni e.V.)

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Prof. Dr.

Gerhard Gebauer

Academic Director

Phone: +49 (0)921/55-2060
Room: GEO I, Zi. 125
e-Mail: gerhard.gebauer(at)uni-bayreuth.de

Former head of the BayCEER Keylab of Isotope Biogeochemistry

Research interests:

• Application of stable isotopes (δ¹³C, δ¹⁵N, δ¹⁸O, δD) to elucidate matter fluxes in ecosystems
• Biogeochemistry of the carbon and nitrogen cycle
• Exchange of climate changing trace gases (N₂O, CH₄, NO) between soils and atmosphere
• Ecophysiology
• Plant nitrogen metabolism
• Mycoheterotrophic plants
• Food chains
  

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​Carina Bauer

Technician

Phone: +49 (0)921/55-2322
Room: GEO I, 128
Email: carina.bauer(at)uni-bayreuth.de

​Petra Eckert

Technician

Phone: +49(0)921/55-2324
Room: GEO I, 126
Email: petra.eckert(at)uni-bayreuth.de

Heidi Zier

Technician

Phone: +49 (0)921/55-2324
Room: GEO I, 128
Email: heidi.zier(at)uni-bayreuth.de

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Wishah Bilal

PhD-student

Phone: +49(0)921/55-2324
Room: GEO I, 126
Email: wishah.bilal(at)uni-bayreuth.de