Kiel University

Bacteria are found everywhere: in clouds and raindrops, on tree leaves, in soil and oceans, on and in our body. Unlike eukaryotes, bacterial evolution comprises both vertical and horizontal components. Recombination at the species level plays a role in selective sweeps through the population, while inter-species lateral gene transfer (LGT) has important implications to microbial adaptation and evolutionary transformations. In our research we study molecular and genome evolution of microbial genomes.

The group's research covers a wide range of topics, with particular emphasis on financial economics, money and banking, econophysics, the application of agent-based models, networks, and multifractal models in the fields of economics and finance.

In the projected research field, discourses about the attitudes and evaluations of expected standard languages and their features are empirically analysed in a comparative way by using a multilingual corpus of discourses contributions.

Fields of research:

• Statistics for Stochastic Processes in Continuous Time 
• Time Series Analysis
• Econometrics
• Nonparametric Statistics

Catalysis; Organic Chemistry; C-H Activation; Transition Metals

My research group has two main foci: anthropogenically driven evolution and life history evolution. We study both aspects by investigating the molecular ecology of aquatic invertebrates. In the last years, my colleagues and I have taken advantage of the newly developing  field of museomics. Using genomic information extracted from natural history collections, we can begin to understand how humans have altered microbiomes, populations, species and whole communities.