Team & Partners
Team & Partners
Understanding the ocean floor as a key interface within the Earth system requires expertise from all fields of marine science. At the ICBM, researchers contribute complementary perspectives and cover a broad spectrum of disciplines – from marine biogeochemistry and microbial ecology, through biodiversity research and oceanography, to Earth system modelling and marine geosciences – thereby laying the interdisciplinary foundation necessary to achieve the cluster’s research objectives.
Principal investigators
Prof Dr Iliana Baums
Principal Investigator
Marine Conservation
Prof Dr Thorsten Dittmar
Principal Investigator
Marine Geochemistry
Prof Dr Murat A Eren (Meren)
Principal Investigator
Ecosystem Data Science
Prof Dr Thilo Gross
Principal Investigator
Biodiversity Theory
Key Researcher
Doctoral and Postdoctoral Researchers
Fenna Alfke
Doctoral researcher
Marine Geochemistry
Project: Carbon Sequestration at the Molecular Level
Supervisors: Thorsten Dittmar (University of Oldenburg) and Kai-Uwe Hinrichs (University of Bremen)
Dr Charlotte Kunze
Postdoctoral researcher
Lead scientist Synthesis Hub
Helena Post
Doctoral researcher
Biogeochemical ocean modelling
Project: From Surface to Seafloor: Mechanistic Models of Sinking Particle Transformation
Supervisors: Sinikka Lennartz (University of Oldenburg) and Morten Iversen (AWI)
Valentin Rauscher
Doctoral researcher
Mathematical Modelling
Project: Decoding feedbacks and thresholds: Objective causality analysis in Earth system simulations
Supervisors: Bernd Blasius (University of Oldenburg) and Michael Schulz (University of Bremen)
Clemens Röttgen
Doctoral researcher
Marine Geochemistry
Supervisors: Michael Seidel (University of Oldenburg) and Charlotte Kleint (University of Bremen)
Coordination and Support
Participating institutions
The cluster operates across locations and combines the expertise of the universities of Oldenburg and Bremen. In addition to the ICBM – Institute of Chemistry and Biology of the Marine Environment at the University of Oldenburg and MARUM – Centre for Marine Environmental Sciences at the University of Bremen, the following institutions are also involved:
- Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Center for Polar and Marine Research (Bremerhaven)
- Constructor University (Bremen)
- Hanse-Wissenschaftskolleg (Delmenhorst)
- Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology (Bremen)
- Leibniz Center for Tropical Marine Research (Bremen)
- Helmholtz Institute for Functional Marine Biodiversity (Oldenburg)
