Function and Responsibilities:

Hey, I am Anirban Majumder from India joined the GFZ Potsdam German Research Centre for Geosciences for my PhD in the IceBio Marie-Curie project. During my bachelor's when I started to study microbiology, I learned about an interesting group of microbes called extremophiles. Since then I have been fascinated with microbial life thriving in these extreme environments and started exploring the research field. After my master's I was working on a deep subsurface project for two years and luckily for my PhD, I got an opportunity to work with the IceBio team in which all of the members will study the Arctic in different ways and my project will be to study and explore the microbial metabolic life in the Arctic using a metabolomics approach. I am excited to study the metabolic pathways the microbes use to survive in this harsh cold environment. It will be a great experience for me to work with the IceBio and GFZ Interface Geochemistry team.

https://www.icebio.eu/

https://www.icebio.eu/pages/consortium/doctoral-candidates.html

https://twitter.com/AnirbanExtreme

@AnirbanExtreme

Career:

Marie-Curie Researcher PhD student at GFZ Interface Geochemistry in the IceBio project (15th July 2023-Present)

Junior Research Fellow (JRF) in the National Centre for Microbial Resource (NCMR), National Centre for Cell Science (NCCS), India (04th January 2021- 04th February 2023)

Education:

M.Sc. Biotechnology (2017-2019), Department of Biotechnology, Savitribai Phule Pune University (SPPU), India

B.Sc. Microbiology (2014-2017), University of Calcutta, India

Projects:

Current PhD project- Metabolic pathways in surface and subglacial habitats in the Arctic.