Life blog16 February 2026|Blog GRK2530Elise Wang reports on her Internship at the RTG 2530Photo: Bryan WangElise Wang supported the RTG 2530 as a DAAD RISE intern from 2 June 2025 to 8 August 2025. We asked her about her experiences with us and what she...26 January 2026|Blog GRK2530Welcome to the team, Nele Martens!Photo: Çağıl GümüşNele Martens has joined the RTG 2530 team as a Postdoctoral Researcher. We're delighted to introduce her as part of our portrait series, in which we...16 January 2026|Blog GRK2530Fourth picture of the 'Hall of Fame'Photo: UHH/RTG2530/Puerto RuedaThe RTG 2530's annual photo contest brings science and art together. Doctoral researchers have the chance to showcase their work creatively, whether...23 December 2025|Blog GRK2530Congratulations to Julian Johannes Mittmann-Götsch!Photo: UHH/RTG2530/GrebeOn 19 December 2025, Julian Johannes Mittmann-Götsch successfully defended his doctoral thesis on ‘Plants, microbes and soil redox in salt marshes...8 December 2025|Blog GRK2530Welcome to the team, Arne Malzahn!Photo: UHH/RTG2530/LatosWe are delighted that Arne Malzahn has joined the RTG 2530 team as a new ‘Principal Investigator’. To introduce him briefly, we asked him three...24 November 2025|Blog GRK2530Doctoral Researchers introduce themselvesFor the video “Researching together: Introducing the second cohort of the RTG2530”, our doctoral researchers Linda Hemmetzberger, Max Lambrecht, Diana...21 November 2025|Blog GRK2530Congratulations, Fay Lexmond!Photo: UHH/RTG2530/GrebeOn 10 November 2025, the RTG 2530 celebrated another graduate — this time at the Institute of Soil Science (IfB) at the University of Hamburg. Over a...19 November 2025|Blog GRK2530We’re delighted for Ella Logemann!Photo: UHH/RTG2530/GrebeOn 3 November 2025, Ella Logemann successfully defended her doctoral thesis on ‘The Role of Plant-Soil Interactions for Carbon Cycling in Baltic and...3 November 2025|Blog GRK2530Congratulations, Jesse Theilen!Photo: UHH/RTG2530/GrebeOn 6 October 2025, the RTG 2530 once again celebrated with a festive presentation of a beautifully decorated doctoral hat – this time to Jesse...7 October 2025|Blog GRK2530Elisa Schaum is the new spokesperson of the RTG 2530Photo: Stefie SchnellSince October 1, 2025, Prof. Dr. Elisa Schaum, the former deputy spokesperson, has become the new spokesperson for RTG 2530. Prof. Dr. Kai Jensen, the...1 October 2025|Blog GRK2530Fifth Retreat of the RTG 2530Photo: UHH/RTG2530/GrebeOnce a year, the members of the RTG 2530 come together for a retreat to exchange ideas intensively in a special setting and to get to know each other...25 September 2025|Blog GRK2530Long-Term Study in the Elbe Estuary: Fish Population Down by 90 PercentPhoto: University of Hamburg / ThielIn the last 4 decades, fish fauna in the Elbe estuary has changed dramatically according a project jointly conducted by the University of Hamburg and...Contribution from the university's newsroom22 September 2025|Blog GRK2530Labelling-experiment to investigate the carbon cycle in Elbe marsh soilsPhoto: UHH/RTG2530/LorkResearchers of the RTG 2530 have developed a labelling experiment to investigate the effects of climate change on the carbon cycle in marsh...12 September 2025|Blog GRK2530Award for outstanding young researchers: Dr. Rebecca Oester wins the Schwoerbel-Benndorf Young Scientist Award from the DGLPhoto: OesterCongratulations to our colleague, Rebecca Oester, on winning first place in the 2025 Schwoerbel-Benndorf Young Scientist Award from the German Society...Contribution from the news channel Network ecology10 September 2025|Blog GRK2530RTG 2530 - Summer BBQPhoto: UHH/RTG2530/HemmetzbergerOn 18 August, it was that time of year again: members of the RTG 2530 got together for a relaxed barbecue at the Institute of Plant Sciences and...6 August 2025|Blog GRK2530Welcome to the team, Jochen Fründ!Photo: UHH/RöttgerWe are delighted that Jochen Fründ has joined the RTG 2530 team as a new ‘Principal Investigator’. To introduce him briefly, we asked him three...25 July 2025|Blog GRK2530Congratulations, Sven P. Tobias-Hünefeldt!Photo: UHH/RTG2530/GrebeOn 21 July 2025, another doctoral candidate from the RTG 2530 was celebrated at the Institute of Plant Sciences and Microbiology (IPM) of the...17 July 2025|Blog GRK253058th European Marine Biology SymposiumPhoto: UHH/RTG2530/PuertoRuedaFrom 6 to 9 July 2025, Max Lambrecht, Luisa Listmann, Sahed Ahmed Palash, Diana Nicole Puerto Rueda and Juliane Schulte participated in the 58th...30 June 2025|Blog GRK2530Welcome to the team, Nicole Aberle-Malzahn!Photo: UHH/EsfandiariNicole Aberle-Malzahn has joined the RTG 2530 team as a new Principal Investigator. We're delighted to introduce her as part of our portrait series...16 June 2025|Blog GRK2530Welcome to the team, Joscha Becker!Photo: UHH/RTG2530/AlbrechtOur portrait series continues, and we're delighted to welcome Joscha Becker as a new Principal Investigator on the RTG 2530 team. To get to know him...Show all news