Prieto, Xavier

Archived Page

This web page has not been updated since the former colleague left MARUM.

Research interests

Analytical chemistry
Use and maintenance of analytical instruments (GC/MS, GC-irm-MS, LC-irm-MS, LC/MS)
Measurements of stable isotopes (C, H and N) in environmental samples
Participation in scientific cruises for on-board analysis and sample collection

Curriculum Vitae

since 2004	Technical staff at MARUM-Center for Marine Environmental Sciences
2000-2001	Master of Science in Environmental Chemistry at Institut d'Investigacions Químiques i Ambientals de Barcelona (IIQAB-CSIC), Spain
1995-2000	Degree of Chemistry at the University of Barcelona, Spain Speciality: Analytical Chemistry

Publications

Lever, M.A., Rouxel, O., Alt, J.C., Shimizu, N., Ono, S., Coggon, R.M., Shanks, W.C., Lapham, L., Elvert, M., Prieto-Mollar, X., Hinrichs, K.-U., Inagaki, F., Teske, A. (2013) "Evidence for microbial carbon and sulfur cycling in deeply buried ridge flank basalt". Science, 339, 1305-1308
Kellermann, M.Y., Wegener, G., Elvert, M., Yoshinaga, M.Y., Lin, Y-S., Holler, T., Prieto-Mollar, X., Hinrichs, K.U. "Autotrophy as predominant mode of carbon fixation in anaerobic methane-oxidizing microbial communities". PNAS vol. 109 no. 47, 19321-19326
Kellermann, M.Y., Schubotz, F., Elvert, M., Lipp, J.S., Birgel, D., Prieto Mollar, X., Dubilier, N., Hinrichs, K.-U. (2012) "Symbiont-host relationships in chemosynthetic mussels: A comprehensive lipid biomarker study". Organic Geochemistry, 43, 112-124
Schubotz F, Lipp JS, Elvert M, Kasten S, Prieto-Mollar X, Zabel M, Bohrmann G, Hinrichs K-U (2011) "Petroleum degradation and associated microbial signatures at the Chapopote asphalt volcano, Southern Gulf of Mexico" . Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta, 75(16), 4377-4398
Ertefai, T., Heuer, V.B., Prieto-Mollar, X., Vogt, C., Sylva, S.P., Seewald, J., and Hinrichs, K.-U. (2010) "The biogeochemistry of sorbed methane in marine sediments". Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 74, 6033-6048
Heuer, V., Elvert, M., Tille, S., Krummen, M., Prieto, X., Hmelo, .L and Hirrichs, K. "Online d13C analysis of volatile fatty acids in sediment/porewater systems by liquid chromatography-isotope ratio mass spectrometry". Limnol. Oceanogr.: Methods, 4 (2006) 346-357

Participation in scientific ship expeditions

2005/06 RV Professor Logachev - TTR15 (6th June - 1st July 2005) Off Turkey (Istanbul - Trabzon - Istanbul) to the Black Sea
Website of the METRO Project
2006/06 RV Yokosuka - YK06-05 (27th May - 12th June) Off Japan (Tokyo - Miyako) to the Japan Trench
2007/02 RV Universitatis - MESC-Cruise (26th February - 05th March) Off Sicily (Messina - Messina) to the Hyblean-Malta Plateau
2010/09 RV Meteor M82/3 (2nd September - 11th October) Menez Gwen Hydrothermal Vent Field in der Mid-Atlantic Ridge
https://www.marum.de/en/RV_Meteor_Expedition_M_823