I am a postdoctoral researcher looking at soil, snow and ice microbiomes. I use metagenomic and -transcriptomic approaches in laboratory and field experiments and combine them with a diverse range of analytical techniques (quantitative PCR, wet chemistry, gas chromatography and soil structure analysis) to answer the who, where, how and how fast questions in microbial ecology. I have a particular interest in using state-of-the-art sequencing technologies and bioinformatical analysis to gain a mechanistic understanding of microbial community function at a genome resolved level and combine that knowledge with information gained in spatial analysis techniques at the micro-scale such as analytical microscopic methods.