Xi Chen

Xi Chen is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Helmholtz Institute for Functional Marine Biodiversity (HIFMB) at the University of Oldenburg, Germany, since 2024. Specializing in bioinformatics and microbial ecology, their work focuses on computational methods to study marine microbial diversity and dynamics.

Education:

• PhD candidate (2018-2023) at the International Max Planck Research School 'From Molecules to Organisms', University of Tübingen
• MSc (2014-2017) and BSc (2010-2014) in Biology from Sun Yat-sen University, China

Research Interests:

• Development and application of computational methods for microbial diversity analysis
• Investigation of eukaryotic marine microbes and their ecological roles
• Integration of molecular biodiversity data with ecosystem function studies