| 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 | 53165 | Home |
| Postdoctoral staff and fellows | ||||
| Dr. Stefan Hempel | E.11 | FU | 53172 | Home |
| Dr. Anika Lehmann | E.10 | FU | 53145 | |
| Dr. Tessa Camenzind | E.10 | FU | 53145 | Home |
| Dr. Stefanie Maaß | K.30 | BMBF-BIBS (in Potsdam) | 53102 | |
| Dr. Julien Roy | E.08 | BMBF-INPLAMINT | 53144 | |
| Dr. Yudi Lozano | E.10 | BMBF-BIBS | 53145 | |
| Dr. Ludo Muller | 1.17 | ERC-AdG | 53143 | |
| Dr. Daniel Lammel | E.09 | DFG | 53146 | |
| Dr. Max-Bernhard Ballhausen | 1.17 | ERC-AdG | 53143 | |
| Dr. Eva Leifheit | 1.10 | DFG (Eigene Stelle, temporary PI position) | 67286 | Email Home |
| Dr. Gaowen Yang | E.11 | FU | 53172 | Email Home |
| Dr. Milica Lakovic | 1.17 | ERC-AdG | 53143 | |
| Dr. India Mansour | E.09 | FU | 53146 | |
| Dr. Moises Sosa Hernandez | 1.17 | BMBF-Soil3 | 53143 | Email Home |
| Dr. Erqin Li | E.09 | ERC-AdG | 53146 | |
| Dr. Shin Woong Kim | E.08 | Korean Government | 53144 | |
| Dr. Baile Xu | 1.17 | CSC-DAAD and Rising Star | 53143 | |
| Dr. Rosolino Ingraffia | 1.09 | BMBF µPlastic | 53159 | |
| Doctoral students | ||||
| Juan F. Duenas Serrano | E.11 | DFG | 53172 | |
| Liliana Pinek | 1.17 | ERC-AdG/ DFG-CRC973 | 53143 | |
| Polina Golubeva (on leave at BASF) | 1.17 | E.-Neumann Scholarship, FU | 53143 | |
| Leonie Grünfeld | 1.17 | DFG | 53146 | |
| James Whitehead | 1.17 | FU/BIBS | 53143 | |
| Jeane dela Cruz | E.09 | DAAD | 53146 | |
| Milos Bielcik | 1.17 | DFG-BioMove | 53143 | |
| Aleksandra Krsmanovic | E.09 | DFG-CRC973 | 53146 | |
| Gulshat Abdullayeva | 1.17 | DAAD | 53143 | |
| Tingting Zhao | K.30 | China Scholarship Council | 53102 | |
| Yaqi Xu | 1.17 | China Scholarship Council | 53143 | |
| Hongyu Chen | 1.17 | China Scholarship Council | 53143 | |
| Peter Meidl | 1.17 | DFG-CRC973 | 53143 | |
| Master’s students | ||||
| Maxi Bergmann | ||||
| Catharina Neumann | ||||
| Technicians and secretary | ||||
| Sabine Buchert | E.12 | FU | 55010 | |
| Gabriele Erzigkeit | 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 |
