Home Max Planck Research Groups Departments Max Planck Research Groups Emmy Noether Research Group Department-independent Research Groups Emerita & Emeriti Max Planck Fellow Transfer Projects Former Research Group Leaders Research Cooperations Max Planck Research Groups The global energy and climate crisis challenges us to develop more efficient strategies and innovative solutions to harness solar energy.Our group combines computational design and directed evolution to create photoenzymes for solar-driven carbon capture, electricity production, and nitrogen fixation. How did life emerge from non-life? How did cells develop from a geochemical environment? Our lab investigates processes where geochemistry and biochemistry transition into each other, using imaging, chemical, biochemical, and geochemical methods
