Friedhelm von Blanckenburg explores the Geochemistry of the Earth's surface by inorganic isotope geochemical and mass spectrometric methods.

Previously he has dealt with deciphering the processes in the interior of the Earth, such as the origin of granitic rocks in collisional mountains. This led him to propose the so-called "slab breakoff" hypothesis. He then turned his isotopic tools onto ocean sediments to determine the transfer of erosion products into the oceans.

Alexander Bartelt (*1982) deals with the molecular biology of metabolism and how it gets out of joint in obesity, fatty liver, diabetes and cardiovascular diseases. He has gained important insights into the molecular functioning of fat metabolism, fat cells and their interaction with the immune system. Through his work on nutrition, energy metabolism and thermogenesis, he is helping to shed light on the question of how weight gain and weight loss are regulated at the cellular level. His work places metabolic adaptation to stress factors at the center of the pathogenesis of complex cardiometabolic diseases.

Markus List obtained his PhD in 2015 at the University of Southern Denmark and worked for two years as a postdoctoral fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Informatics. In 2018, he started a research group at the School of Life Sciences at the Technical University of Munich, where he was appointed as Assistant Professor in 2023.

Nadine Biedenkopf is research group leader at the Institute of Virology at the Philipps University Marburg. Her research in the field of infection biology and virology focuses on highly pathogenic viruses, filoviruses, Ebola and Marburg virus.

Tatiana Korotkova studied physiology in Moscow and earned her Ph.D. in Düsseldorf. After postdocs in Heidelberg and Berlin, she became group leader at FMP and head of the Neurocircuit Research Group at the MPI for Metabolism Research. She is now director at the Center for Physiology at th Cologne Excellence Cluster on Aging and Aging-Associated Diseases.

Prof. Dr. Maja Köhn is a Schlegel Professor for Molecular Cell Biology at the University of Bonn and Managing Director of the Institute for Cell Biology. Her research focuses on phosphatases, proteins that play key roles in cellular signaling and are linked to diseases such as cancer and heart failure. She combines chemical tools with cell biology to study these enzymes.