Main Focus

  • Critical Zone functioning
  • Groundwater quality under global change
  • Microbe-Molecule interactions

Curriculum Vitae

Since 2022

Postdoc with Prof. Susan Trumbore (MPI-BGC)

2020-2022

Postdoc with Prof. Gerd Gleixner (MPI-BGC)

2016-2022

PhD student within the International Max Planck Research School for global Biogeochemical Cycles
Thesis title: Towards a data-driven understanding of dissolved organic matter in the Critical Zone

2010-2015

BSc and MSc in Geosciences at the Ruprecht-Karls-University of Heidelberg


Key Publications

2022

Schroeter, S.A., Eveillard, D., Chaffron, S. et al. Microbial community functioning during plant litter decomposition. Sci Rep 12, 7451 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-11485-1

Tanunchai, B., Ji, L., Schroeter, S.A. et al. FungalTraits vs. FUNGuild: Comparison of Ecological Functional Assignments of Leaf- and Needle-Associated Fungi Across 12 Temperate Tree Species. Microb Ecol (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00248-022-01973-2

2021

Benk, Simon (2021): Towards a data-driven understanding of dissolved organic matter in the critical zone. Jena. Online unter: https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:gbv:27-dbt-20210514-151036-006.

2019

Benk SA, Yan L, Lehmann R, Roth V-N, Schwab VF, Totsche KU, Küsel K and Gleixner G (2019) Fueling Diversity in the Subsurface: Composition and Age of Dissolved Organic Matter in the Critical Zone. Front. Earth Sci. 7:296. doi: 10.3389/feart.2019.00296

2018

Benk SA, Li Y, Roth V-N and Gleixner G (2018) Lignin Dimers as Potential Markers for 14C-young Terrestrial Dissolved Organic Matter in the Critical Zone. Front. Earth Sci. 6:168. doi: 10.3389/feart.2018.00168


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