Professor Dr. Volker Thiel

Address Georg-August-Universität Göttingen
Geowissenschaftliches Zentrum
Abteilung Geobiologie
Goldschmidtstraße 3
37077 Göttingen

Projects

As Applicant
- Completed projects
  - Molecular indicators for the cycling of methane in marine environments (Research Grants)
  - Lipidbiomarker in 'Cold Seeps' des Pazifischen Nordwestens der USA: Ursprung, Heterogenität und Molekulare Fossilien (Research Grants)
  - Molecular mapping of lipid biomarkers with Time-of-Flight - Secondary Ion Mass Spectrometry (TOF-SIMS): a feasibility study. (Research Grants)
  - Time-of-Flight - Secondary Ion Mass Spectrometry (ToF-SIMS): exploring the sources and distributions of microbial biomarkers at the µm-range (Research Units)
  - Aerober und anaerober Methanumsatz in der Wassersäule der zentralen Ostsee (Gotland-Tief und Landsort-Tief) (Research Grants)
  - Testing the geological fate of abiogenic carbonaceous matter (Research Grants)
  - Paleoecology vs taphonomy: Unraveling the molecular fossil record of the Mesoproterozoic Lakhanda Lagerstätte (SE Siberia, Russia) (Research Grants)
  - Molekulare Fossilien: Schlüssel zum Ursprung diagenetischer Karbonatkonkretionen (Research Grants)
  - Kerogen in Archean rocks: Biotic vs abiotic signatures – Pt. II (Priority Programmes)
As Leader
- Completed projects
  - Gaschromatograph-Massenspektrometer-Kopplung (Major Research Instrumentation)
As Participating Person
- Completed projects
  - Phylogeny of calcareous sponges (Research Grants)
  - Biomineralisationsprozesse, Biogeochemie und Biodiversität chemolithotropher Mikroorganismen im Tunnel von Äspö (Schweden) (Research Units)
As Cooperation Partner
- Completed projects
  - Origin of coastal facies Banded Iron Formation, Barberton Greenstone Belt (3.2 Ga) (Priority Programmes)
  - Triple oxygen, triple silicon, and trace elements of cherts for the reconstruction of d18O of seawater deep in time (Priority Programmes)
As Co-Investigator
- Current projects
  - Identification, structure and occurrence of fossil melanin pigments (Research Grants)
- Completed projects
  - Isolation and Cultivation of the Source Organisms of Long-chain Diol lipids from Marine Environments to test their Application in Palaeoclimate Studies (Research Grants)