Marion Jespersen

Dr. Marion Jespersen is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow and Microbial Biochemistry Team Leader in the Greening Laboratory at Monash University's Department of Microbiology. She leads research on oxygen-adapted hydrogenases and enzyme function in oxygen-rich environments, using integrated approaches like computational modeling, structural biology, and spectroscopy.

Education: PhD in Marine Microbiology from the Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology (Germany), focusing on enzymes in anaerobic extremophiles. MSc also completed at the same institute.

Research priorities include understanding hydrogenase function in global hydrogen cycles, with contributions to UN Sustainable Development Goals through environmental biochemistry studies. Key techniques include X-ray crystallography, Cryo-EM, and environmental enzyme analysis.

Publications (2020–2023) explore sulfate reduction, sulfite detoxification enzymes, and CO2-fixation strategies in extremophiles. No explicit awards listed but work has received significant citations (e.g., 41 citations for the 2020 review).