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 Warnemünde (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"