Wissenschaftliche Interessen:

• Evolution of membrane lipids in the three domains of life (e.g. terpenoids, sphingolipids, GDGTs)
• Reconstruction of Precambrian biospheres through lipid biomarker analyses
• Reconstruction of biogeochemical cycles through isotope analyses (e.g. position-specific isotope analysis [PSIA])
• Oxygenation history of Earth

I am an associate member of Australian Centre for Astrobiology (ACA).

My personal website is here.

Karriere:

• 2021 -             Research scientist at GFZ Potsdam
• 2016 - 2021    Postdoctoral scientist at Georgia Institute of Technology and Georgia State University, Atlanta, USA
• 2015 - 2016    Postdoctoral scientist at Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry, Bremen, Germany
• 2006 - 2010    Opt-device engineer at Shimadzu Corporation, Kyoto, Japan

Werdegang / Ausbildung:

• 2015 PhD in geobiology, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia "Investigation of hydrocarbon biomarkers preserved in the Fortescue Group in the Pilbara Craton, Western Australia"

Projekte:

• MAdLand - Molecular adaptation to Land, plant evolution to change
• Evolutionary history of 2-methylhopanoid biosynthesis (HpnP)
• Evolution of the eukaryotic cell wall biosynthesis (particularly chitin)
• Paleoenzymology of S-adenosylmethionine synthase (MetK)
• Ancestral sequence reconstruction of the DNA polymerase protein family

Auszeichnungen:

• 2022                The Soehngen Institute of Anaerobic Microbiology (SIAM) Visiting Scholar Program
• 2018                Geochemical Society, Best 2015 paper in organic geochemistry award (French et al., PNAS 112: 5915–20)
• 2017                Agouron geobiology fellowship
• 2014                Student Councilor, International Society for the Study of the Origin of Life (ISSOL)
• 2013                Postgraduate Research Fund, Macquarie University, Australia