| Name | Office location | Currently funded by | Phone number ++49 (0)30 838- | Link or Email |
| Head of group | ||||
| Prof. Matthias C. Rillig | E.34 | FU Berlin | 53165 | Home |
| Postdoctoral staff and fellows | ||||
| Dr. Anika Lehmann | E.10 | EPJ Soil/ BMBF – SOIL-HEAL/ FU Berlin | 53145 | |
| Dr. Tessa Camenzind | E.10 | Guest scientist | 53145 | Home |
| Dr. Stefanie Maaß | 1.09 | EU Soil O-Live/ FU Berlin | 53159 | |
| Dr. Daniel Lammel | E.09 | Guest scientist | 53146 | |
| Prof. Dr. India Mansour (Guest Professorship) | E.09 | FU Berlin | 53146 | Email Home |
| Dr. Álvaro Rodríguez del Río | E.09 | Humboldt Fellow/ FU Berlin | 53146 | |
| Dr. Yves Hermandez Tchiechoua | E.08 | Rising Star Program/ FU Berlin | 53144 | |
| Dr. Tingting Zhao | K.30 | DFG-Biodiversity Exploratories | 53102 | |
| Dr. Yongxing Cui | 1.17 | Humboldt Fellow | 53143 | |
| Dr. Marcus Maeder | 1.09 | Guest researcher | 53159 | |
| Dr. Yaqin Guo | 1.07 | BMBF – Soil3 | 53155 | |
| Dr. Kai Yue | 1.17 | Humboldt fellow | 53143 | |
| Dr. Yuanze Sun | 1.17 | Humboldt fellow | 53143 | |
| Dr. Wei Fu | 1.17 | CSC | 53143 | |
| Dr. Guanghui Xu | 1.17 | Chinese Academy of Sciences | 53143 | |
| Dr. Adrián Bozal-Leorri | 1.18 | Basque Government | ||
| Dr. Mohan Bi | 1.07 | FU Berlin | 53155 | |
| Dr. Jiqiong Zhou | CSC | |||
| Dr. Huiying Li | 1.17 | CSC/ FU Berlin | 53143 | |
| Dr. Joana MacLean | 1.07 | EU-Minagris | 53155 | |
| Dr. Xiaojing Hu | 1.17 | Humboldt fellow | 53143 | |
| Dr. Quan Wang (incoming) | CSC | |||
| Dr. Wenke Yuan | 1.17 | CAS | 53143 | |
| Dr. Yanmei Fu (incoming) | CSC | |||
| Dr. Yaqi Xu | 1.17 | EU – Soil O-Live | 53143 | |
| Dr. Yanjie Zhu | 1.17 | CSC/ FU Berlin | 53143 | |
| Doctoral students | ||||
| Jeane dela Cruz | 1.07 | DAAD | 53155 | |
| Hongyu Chen | 1.17 | BMBF – µPlastic | 53143 | |
| Peter Meidl | 1.17 | DFG-CRC973/ Scholarship | 53143 | |
| Rebecca Rongstock | E.10 | FU Berlin | 53145 | |
| Catharina Neumann | 1.18 | DFG-Biomove/ FU Berlin | 60875 | |
| Shaoyi Jiang | E.09 | China Scholarship Council | 53146 | |
| Tamara Meizoso Regueira | 1.07 | EU-PlasticUnderground | 61694 | |
| Sophia Kaschper | E.08 | BMBF – µPlastic/ FU Berlin | 53144 | |
| Yijing Wang (visiting) | 1.17 | China Scholarship Council | 53143 | |
| Xin-Rong Huang (visiting) | 1.07 | China Scholarship Council | ||
| Tian Hu | 1.17 | China Scholarship Council | 53143 | |
| Taizhi Luo | 1.17 | China Scholarship Council | ||
| Naying Li (visiting) | China Scholarship Council | |||
| Xin Wen (visiting) | China Scholarship Council | |||
| Xu Chen (visiting) | 1.17 | China Scholarship Council | 53143 | |
| Shitong Li (visiting) | China Scholarship Council | |||
| Master’s and BSc students | See listing on the alumni page | |||
| Technicians and secretary | ||||
| Sabine Buchert | E.12 | FU | 55010 | |
| Anja Wulf | E.12 | FU | 55010 | |
| Sabrina Doil | 1.06 | FU | 63599 | |
| Other researchers | ||||
| PD Dr. Manfred Forstreuter | K.33 | 53164 | ||
| Frequent lab visitors | ||||
| Prof. Janis Antonovics | Virginia | |||
| Prof. Ian Anderson | Sydney | |||
| Prof. Johannes Lehmann | Cornell |