2021 - 2022
BFD at the Succow Foundation, Koos Island

2017 - 2021
PhD student in the WETSCAPES project

2014-2017
Molecular Biology and Physiology, M.Sc. University of Greifswald, Master's thesis in the WETSCAPES project: “Biogeography of methanogenic archaea in drained and re-wetted peat soils of Mecklenburg-West-Pomerania”, Bacterial physiology, Prof. Urich's research group

2011-2014
Biology, B.Sc. University of Greifswald, Bachelor's thesis: “Transcription analyses after NaOCl stress and allicin in Staphylococcus aureus”

2009-2011
BTA at DiaSys, Diagnostic Systems, Holzheim

2007-2009
Biological-technical assistant (BTA) education, Fresenius University of Applied Sciences, Idstein

2006
Abitur, Taunusschule, Bad Camberg

Previous Projekte

• WETSCAPES - Combined research by the Universities of Greifswald and Rostock on the turnover processes of substances in peatlands, excellence research program of the state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern (2016 - 2021)

Journal articles (peer-reviewed)

• Micha Weil, Haitao Wang, Dominik Zak, Tim Urich (2023) Spatial and temporal niche separation of Methanomassiliicoccales phylotypes in temperate fens, FEMS Microbiology Ecology, Volume 99, Issue 6, fiad049. DOI:10.1093/femsec/fiad049
• Haitao Wang, Micha Weil, Kenneth Dumack, Dominik Zak, Diana Münch, Anke Günther, Gerald Jurasinski, Gesche Blume-Werry, Jürgen Kreyling, Tim Urich (2021) Eukaryotic rather than prokaryotic microbiomes change over seasons in rewetted fen peatlands, FEMS Microbiology Ecology, Volume 97, Issue 9, fiab121. DOI:10.1093/femsec/fiab121
• Weil, M., Hoff, K.J., Meißner, W., Schäfer, F., Söllinger, A., Wang, H., Hagenau, L., Kuss, A.W., Urich, T. (2021) Full Genome Sequence of a Methanomassiliicoccales Representative Enriched from Peat Soil. Microbiol Resour Announc 10: 10–12. DOI:10.1128/MRA.00443-21
• Huth, V., Günther, A., Bartel, A., Hofer, B., Jacobs, O., Jantz, N., et al. (2020) Topsoil removal reduced in-situ methane emissions in a temperate rewetted bog grassland by a hundredfold. Sci Total Environ 721: 137763.
• Jurasinski, G., Ahmad, S., Anadon-Rosell, A., Berendt, J., Beyer, F., Bill, R., et al. (2020) From understanding to sustainable use of peatlands: The wetscapes approach. Soil Syst 4: 1–27.
• Weil M, Wang H, Bengtsson M, Köhn D, Günther A, Jurasinski G, Couwenberg J, Negassa W, Zak D, Urich T. (2020) Long-Term Rewetting of Three Formerly Drained Peatlands Drives Congruent Compositional Changes in Pro- and Eukaryotic Soil Microbiomes through Environmental Filtering. Microorganisms 8 (4). DOI:10.3390/microorganisms8040550