CV - Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry

CV - Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry

Christian Hallmann
Max-Planck-Research-Group Leader, Organic Paleobiogeochemistry
Affiliation 1: Max-Planck-Institute for Biogeochemistry — Hans-Knöll-Strasse 10 — 07745 Jena, Germany
Affiliation 2 & address: MARUM, University of Bremen — Leobener Strasse — 28359 Bremen, Germany
Phone: +49 421 218 65820
Fax: +49 421 218 65505
E-Mail: [email protected]
www.bgc-jena.mpg.de/index.php/Groups/OrganicPaleobiogeochemistry
www.marum.de/Christian_Hallmann.html
Personal data
Born
Citizenship
Languages
July 30th 1981 in Aachen, Germany
Netherlands, Germany
Dutch, German (native), English (fluent), French (moderate), Polish (basic), Russian (incipient)
Education
PhD in Applied Chemistry
Advisors: Kliti Grice, Ben van Aarssen, Andrew Murray.
Curtin University, Australia
2005–2008
Diplom (~BSc & MSc) in Geology-Paleontology
Advisor: Lorenz Schwark. Graduated with highest distinction.
University of Cologne, Germany 1999–2004
Employment & Affiliations
Max-Planck-Research-Group leader
Staff scientist
University Associate
Postdoctoral associate
Agouron Institute Postdoctoral Fellow
Exploration Geochemist (part-time)
MPI for Biogeochemistry
MARUM, Bremen University
Curtin University, Australia
MIT, USA
MIT, USA
Woodside Energy, Australia
2012–
2012–
2012
2009–2011
2008–2009
2005–2006
Training
Postdoc in Geobiology
Advisor: Roger Summons
PhD candidate
Advisor: Kliti Grice
Geochemist
Supervisor: Andrew Murray
Marie-Curie Felllow
Advisor: Ian Head
Visiting scholar
Advisor: Ralf Littke
Trainee
Advisor: Erdem idiz
MSc candidate
Advisor: Lorenz Schwark
Undergraduate researcher
Advisor: Lorenz Schwark, Khaled Arouri
MIT, USA
2008–2011
Precambrian geochemistry and geobiology
Curtin University, Australia
2005–2009
Molecular and isotopic organic geochemistry.
Woodside Energy, Australia
2005–2006
Sirte Basin (Libya) geology and petroleum systems
University of Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
2005 (4 months)
Deep biosphere molecular ecology and petroleum degradation
Aachen University of Technology (RWTH)
2004 (2 months)
1D subsidence and petroleum generation modeling
Shell International Exploration & Production, NL
2003 (3 months)
Organic geochemistry of Oman petroleum systems
University of Cologne
2003–2004
Fractionation of polar compounds during petroleum migration
University of Cologne
2002–2003
Organic geochemistry of Central Australian petroleum systems
Honors, awards, fellowship
2009
2008
2008
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2007
2007
2007
2006
2005
2005
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2005
1999
Election as an Agouron Institute Geobiology Fellow
Invitation to ‘Fresh Science’ (competition identifying new & exciting early-career science)
TIGeR research grant for fieldwork ($800 AUD)
Best student poster award. Australian Organic Geochemistry conference, Adelaide.
Geoservices award. European Association of Organic Geochemists travel scholarship (€ 5000 Euro)
AAPG Grant-in-Aid ($2000 USD)
PESA ‘Highly Commended’ Scholarship. Petroleum Exploration Society of Australia ($2000 AUD)
PESA Federal Postgraduate Scholarship ($5000 AUD)
Bernd Rendel Award for young investigators with great scientific potential. German Research Foundation.
AAPG Horst and Jessie von Bandat Memorial Grant ($2000 USD)
Curtin University International Research Tuition Scholarship & Stipend Award
Marie Curie pre-doctoral fellowship. European Commission.
Informatie Beheer Groep. Study performance grant (1999–2003).
Current and former advisees
MSc
Jessica Holterhof (2012, co-advised with Kai Hinrichs) Biodegradation of petroleum in the Gippsland Basin, offshore Australia.
Helena Dannert (2012–2013, co-advised with Gerd Gleixner) Lipid inventory of the Placozoa.
PhD
Lennart van Maldegem (2013–) Neoproterozoic nitrogen cycling.
Postdoctoral
Arne Leider (2012–2014) Taxonomic information in thermally-stable biomarker breakdown fragment
Research grants
PI
2013
2012
Co-I
2011
2010
MARUM Incentive Fund for field work in Russia (€ 15,000).
Max-Planck-Society. Funding for 5-year research group. Neoproterozoic transition to a modern world. (€ xxx).
NASA, MSL Participating Scientist Program: Benchmarking thermal desorption and pyrolysis of organic matter on the
SAM instrument suite. PI: Roger Summons. ($ 563,732 USD).
NASA Astrobiology, Director’s discretionary fund: Coordinated micro-analytical approaches for in-situ analysis of
Palaeoproterozoic biological carbonaceous particles. PI: Dominic Papineau. ($ 154,065 USD).
Publications (H-index = 6)
(in review)
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Illing CJ, Hallmann C, Strauss H, Summons RE (in review) Air-borne hydrocarbon contamination from laboratory
atmospheres.
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Luo G, Summons RE, Hallmann C, Xie S, Ruan X (in review) Microbial diversity and redox environments of
black shale and stromatolite facies in the Mesoproterozoic Xiamaling Formation, North China Craton.
15.
Oduro H, Hallmann C, Summons RE, Ono S (in review) Organic aerosols as a major carrier for sulfur massindependent fractionation signals during the Archean Eon.
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Aponte JC, Tarozo R, Alexander MR, Alexander CM, Hallmann C, Summons RE, Huang Y (2014) Chirality of
meteoritic free and IOM-derived monocarboxylic acids and implications for prebiotic organic synthesis.
Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta 131: 1–12.
Rooney AD, Macdonald FA, Dudas FÖ, Strauss JV, Hallmann C, Selby D (2014) Re-Os geochronology and
coupled Os-Sr isotope constraints on the Sturtian snowball Earth. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 111: 51–56.
Hallmann C, Summons RE (2014) Paleobiological clues to early atmospheric evolution. In: Canfield D,
Kasting J, Farquhar J (Eds) Treatise on geochemistry, 2nd Ed, Vol. 6: The atmosphere – history. Elsevier. pp 139–
155.
Summons RE, Hallmann C (2014) Organic geochemical signatures of early life on earth. In: Falkowski P,
Freeman K (Eds) Treatise on geochemistry, 2nd Ed, Vol. 12: Organic Geochemistry. Elsevier. pp. 33–46.
Creveling JC, Knoll AH, Fernandez-Remolar D, Bergmann KD, Gill BC, Garcia-Bellido DC, Menendez S, Rodriguez
M, Ehlmann BL, Stack KM, Hallmann C, Amils R, Grotzinger JP, Abelson J (2013) Geobiology of a lower
Cambrian carbonate platform, Pedroche Formation, Spain. Paleogeography, Paleoclimatology,
Paleoecology 386: 459–478.
Sherry A, Gray ND, Rowan AK, Aitken CM, Jones DM, Röling W, Hallmann C, Larter SR, Bowler B, Head I
(2013) Biodegradation of crude oil under sulfate-reducing conditions leads to only modest enrichment of
recognized sulfate-reducing taxa. International Biodeterioration and Biodegradation 81: 105–113.
Hallmann C, Kelly AE, Gupta SN, Summons, RE (2011) Reconstructing deep-time biology with molecular
fossils. In: Laflamme M, Schiffbauer JD, Dornbos SQ (Eds) Topics in Geobiology, Vol 36: Quantifying the
evolution of early life. Springer. pp 355–401.
Hallmann C, Grey K, Webster LJ, McKirdy DM, Grice K (2010) Molecular signature of the Neoproterozoic
Acraman impact event. Organic Geochemistry 41: 111–115.
Grice K, Lu H, Atahan P, Asif M, Hallmann C, Greenwood P, Maslen E, Tulipani S, Williford K, Dodson J (2009)
New insights into the origin of perylene in geological samples. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 73: 6531–
6543.
Maslen E, Grice K, Gale JD, Hallmann C, Horsfield B (2009) Crocetane: a potential marker of photic zone
euxinia in thermally mature sediments and crude oils of Devonian age. Organic Geochemistry 40, 1–11.
Hallmann C, Schwark L, Grice K (2008) Community dynamics of anaerobic bacteria in deep petroleum
reservoirs. Nature Geoscience 1: 588–591.
Hallmann C, van Aarssen BGK, Grice K (2008) Relative efficiency of free fatty acid butyl esterification.
Choice of catalyst and derivatization procedure. Journal of Chromatography A 1198–1199: 14–20.
Hallmann C, Arouri KR, McKirdy DM, Schwark L (2007) Temporal resolution of an oil charging history—A case
study of residual oil benzocarbazoles from the Gidgealpa Field. Organic Geochemistry 38: 1516–1536.
Hallmann C, Arouri KR, McKirdy DM, Schwark L (2006) A new perspective on exploring the
Cooper/Eromanga petroleum province—Evidence of oil charging from the Warburton basin. APPEA Journal
46: 261–282.
Invited lectures
2013 - University of Tübingen
- Presidency University, Kolkata
- Institute Physique du Globe de Paris
2012 - Agouron Institute Archean Biomarker meeting
- Evolution of systems workshop
2011 - Max-Planck annual section meeting
- Rutgers University
- Max-Planck-Society
- NAI team meeting
- Museum of Science, Boston
2010 - AGU Fall meeting
- Harvard Geobiology symposium
2009 - MIT Chemical Oceanography
—Ultra-clean core drilling: where are the biomarkers?
—A molecular perspective on the early evolution of life on
Earth
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—Syngenetic and contaminant lipids in sediments
of the Hamersley Group
—Fossil lipids as a key to the early evolution of life.
—Fossil sedimentary lipids: Archiving the dawn of life.
—Sequential biomarker extraction reveals evidence
for Archean eukaryotes and oxygen fluxes.
—Precambrian Lipidomics and the early evolution
of life.
—Biogeochemistry of the Cryogenian Coppercap Fm.
—The search for life on early Earth and Mars
—Biomarker evidence for Archean oxygen fluxes.
—Impacts, Ice ages and the rise of complexity.
—Biological response to a ~2500 Ma ‘whiff’ of
oxygen before the great oxidation event.
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2008 - GRC Organic Geochemistry
- Brown University
2007 - Goldschmidt conference
- Curtin University
- PESA Technical Luncheon
—Microbial population dynamics in deep oil
reservoirs. Insights from membrane lipids.
—Early life on Earth. Archean molecular fossils tell an
oxygen story.
—Petroleum reservoirs as natural bioreactors: Acidic
metabolites in the deep biosphere.
—Dynamics of an oil-degrading microbiosphere
indigenous to petroleum reservoirs. Insights from intact
phospholipids.
—Polar petroleum constituents: Applications and
concepts.
Teaching
2013–‘14
2013
2010
2009
2009
2007
2004
1997-’98
Co-instructor. Molecular geobiology course. University of Bremen (graduate level).
NASA Astrobiology summer school. UIMP, Santander, Spain (graduate level)
Co-instructor. Molecular biogeochemistry course, MIT (graduate level).
Co-instructor. Molecular biogeochemistry course, MIT. (graduate level).
Invited guest lecturer. Seminar on Astrobiology and Geobiology, MIT.
Substitute lecturer. Organic geochemistry course. University of Cologne.
Laboratory demonstrator. Organic Geochemistry. University of Cologne (undergrad level).
Tutor in French literature. Bernardinus College, Heerlen, the Netherlands.
Additional training
2012
2008
2007
2006
2006
2003
Management development program—1. Leadership, communication, impact (Cevey Consulting)
Management development program—2. Personalities, potentials, performance (Cevey Consulting)
Microbial physiology course (MIT: Magasanik, Newman, Walker)
Introduction to Project Management course (Australian Technology Network).
Leadership and Communication course (Australian Technology Network).
Fault seal analysis short course (Badley Geoscience).
Basin modeling course (University of Bonn / IES).
Field work
2013
2013
2012
2011
2010
2009
2009
2008
2003
2003
2001
2000
Jammu/Kashmir and lesser Himalaya, India. Neoproterozoic
Southern Ural, Russia. Meso- & Neoproterozoic
Pilbara Craton Drilling project. Archean.
Belcher Islands, Canada. Paleoproterozoic.
Cordoba region & Rio Tinto, Spain. Cambrian & recent Mars-analog.
China, Three Gorges area. Neoproterozoic & P/T.
Newfoundland, Canada. Ediacara biota.
Pilbara Craton, Australia. Archean BIF & Stromatolites.
Dharwar Craton, India. Archean.
Allgäu Alps, Germany. Mesozoic. Geological mapping.
Menorca Island, Spain. Phanerozoic geological framework.
Dolomites, Italy. Permo-triassic. Geological mapping.
Synergistic activities
Reviewed manuscripts for:
Reviewed proposals for:
Precambrian research, ISME Journal, Organic Geochemistry, G-cubed, Space
Science Reviews, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, Geobiology
NSF, NASA, Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, Alexander von Humboldt Stiftung, Indo-US
Science & Technology Forum.
2012 Session leader: Gordon Research Seminar on Organic Geochemistry (Invited)
2011 Convener: AGU Fall meeting. Four billion years of marine nitrogen cycling.
2011 Convener: AGU Fall meeting. Understanding early Neoproterozoic transitions.
2009
2007
2007
2006
Topical consultant: ‘Welt der Wunder’ German popular science magazine.
Election panel for Curtin University Postdoctoral Fellowship. (Invited)
Assistant examiner of MSc candidates, University of Cologne.
Session judge (Geochemistry). AAPG International conference, Perth. (Invited)
Outreach
2011
2011
2011
2011
Video interview on gas chromatography and mass spectrometry. MIT Museum.
‘Tell your story’ workshop to connect teachers and scientists.
MIT +150 open house. Geological time-walk tours.
‘Mars weekend’ at the Museum of Science, Boston.
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