Matthias Labrenz - CV

Study

1988 - 1995

Study of biology at the Christian-Albrechts-University, Kiel

Diplom Biology

1995

Masters at the Department of General Microbiology, Kiel.

Title: "Influence of microorganisms on the iron transport in a podzole".

Promotion

1995 - 1999

PhD thesis at the Institute for General Microbiology, Kiel.

Title: "Characterization of specific antarctic bacteria: ecological demands of strains isolated from a hypersaline lake, and investigations on the identification of potential anthropogenic soil isolates".

Postdocs

1999-2001

University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA, Dept. of Geology and Geophysics

Geomicrobiology

2001-2003

German Research Center for Biotechnology, Braunschweig (GBF)

Since 2003

Senior scientist at the Leibniz-Institute for Baltic Sea Research (IOW)

Microbial and molecular ecology

Habilitation (Microbiology)

October 2008

University of Rostock

Habilitation in Microbiology: “Microbes and microbial lifestyles within unusual environments”

2009

University of Rostock

Venia Legendi in Microbiology

since 2012

Head of the working group "Environmental Microbiology"