In 2013, Daniel started as a student assistant in the von Elert group (Aquatic Chemical Ecology) and finished here his B.Sc. thesis in 2015. He established and conducted methods for GC/MS and LC/MS analysis of metabolites, nutrients, volatile organic compounds and fatty acids with the aim to better understand interactions within freshwater communities. One project that Daniel was involved in and contributed significantly, including initiall supervision of a new PhD student (that was me 😉), was the extraction and analysis of fatty acids from phytoplankton of lakes with different trophic levels. After his bachelor, Daniel switched his field of interest to human diseases. He conducted his master thesis in 2018 in the field of CAR T cell therapy, in which he is active until today.

Acknowledged in:
Fink and von Elert (2017), doi: 10.1007/s11356-017-0205-x
Sadler et al. (2014), doi: 10.1016/j.hal.2014.07.006