Martin-Georg Endress

SSS Soil System Sciences

The 2025 Outstanding Student and PhD candidate Presentation (OSPP) Award is awarded to Martin-Georg Endress for the poster/PICO entitled:

Exploring the energetics of soil microbial metabolism under substrate limitation (Endress, M.-G.; Blagodatsky, S.)

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Martin-Georg Endress completed his PhD at the Institute of Zoology at the University of Cologne, Germany. His research focuses on process-based modelling of microbial carbon cycling in soils from a bioenergetic perspective. In particular, he aims to leverage thermodynamic constraints on microbial growth to better understand and quantify carbon fluxes in the soil system. His EGU 2025 poster presented modelling results and compiled empirical evidence on the bioenergetics of microbial maintenance metabolism. He is continuing this line of research as a postdoctoral researcher at the Institute of Meteorology and Climate Research Atmospheric Environmental Research (IMKIFU) at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Germany.