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Chair of Circular Economy Prof. Dr. habil. Christian Abendroth

Publications

2026

2025

  • Otto P, Witkabel P, Barth M, Ammar AB, Rocktäschel B, Torrent D, Latorre-Pérez A, Krause M, Abendroth C. 2025. Adaptation of the anaerobic microbiome for in-situ power-to-CH4 processes through fuzzy logic control of H2 input. Bioresource Technology Reports. 31:102194. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biteb.2025.102194
  • Puchol‐Royo R, Pascual J, Ortega‐Legarreta A, Otto P, Tideman J, de Vries S‐J, Abendroth C, Tanner K, Porcar M, Latorre‐Perez A. 2025. Metagenomic insights into the ecology, taxonomy and metabolic capabilities of ‘Candidatus Darwinibacteriales’ Ord. Nov. (formerly MBA03), a potential key player in anaerobic digestionstion. Microbial biotechnology. 1 - 16. https://doi.org/10.1111/1751-7915.70258
  • Hozad AS, Abendroth C. 2025. Electro-Composting: An Emerging Technology. Fermentation. 11:401. https://doi.org/10.3390/fermentation11070401 

2024

  • Barth M, Werner M, Otto P, Richwien B, Bahramsari S, Krause M, Schwan B, Abendroth C. 2024. Microwave-assisted organic acids and green hydrogen production during mixed culture fermentation. Biotechnology for Biofuels and Bioproducts. 17:123. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13068-024-02573-7
  • Barth M, Werner M, Otto P, Richwien B, Bahramsari S, Krause M, Schwan B, Abendroth C. 2024. Microwave-assisted organic acids and green hydrogen production during mixed culture fermentation. Biotechnology for Biofuels and Bioproducts. 17:123. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13068-024-02573-7
  • Vidal-Verdú A, Torrent D, Iglesias A, Latorre-Pérez A, Abendroth C, Corbín-Agustí P, Peretó J, Porcar M. 2024. The highly differentiated gut of Pachnoda marginata hosts sequential microbiomes: microbial ecology and potential applications. npj biofilms and microbiomes. 10:65. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41522-024-00531-7
  • Otto P, Abendroth C. 2024. Neue Bakterienordnung entdeckt. Biogasjournal. 2:24, 96-99.
  • Otto P, Puchol-Royo Roser, Ortega-Legarreta A, Tanner K, Tideman J, de Vries S-J, Pascual J, Porcar M, Latorre-Pérez A, Abendroth C. 2024. Multivariate comparison of taxonomic, chemical and operational data from 80 different full-scale anaerobic digester-related systems. Biotechnology for Biofuels and Bioproducts. 17:84. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13068-024-02525-1

2023

  • Oviedo-Ocaña ER, Abendroth C, Domínguez IC, Sánchez A, Dornack C. 2023. Life cycle assessment of biowaste and green waste composting systems: A review of applications and implementation challenges. Waste Management. 171, 350-364.  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wasman.2023.09.004.
  • Baptist S, Abendroth C. 2023. A systematic review on Carbon Credits. DGAW (German Society for Waste Management), 12th Scientific Congress on Waste and Resource Management on March 9th and 10th, 2023, Hamburg University of Technology, proceedings.  https://www.uibk.ac.at/iup/buch_pdfs/10.15203-99106-095-6.pdf.
  • Otto P, Abendroth C. 2023. Untersuchung der mikrobiellen Profile von 70 verschiedenen Biogasanlagen und Identifizierung signifikanter technischer und chemischer Einflussgrößen auf das Mikrobiom. DGAW (German Society for Waste Management), 12th Scientific Congress on Waste and Resource Management on March 9th and 10th, 2023, Hamburg University of Technology, proceedings, pp. 297 - 301.  https://www.uibk.ac.at/iup/buch_pdfs/10.15203-99106-095-6.pdf.
  • Otto P, Alipoursarbani M, Torrent D, Latorre-Pérez A, Paust T, Albert A, Abendroth C. 2023. Microbiome Characterization after Aerobic Digestate Reactivation of Anaerobically Digested Sewage Sludge. Fermentation. 9(5):471.  https://doi.org/10.3390/fermentation9050471.

2022

2021

  • Heitkamp K, Latorre-Pérez A, Nefigmann S, Gimeno-Valero H, Vilanova C, Jahmad E, Abendroth C. 2021. Monitoring of seven industrial anaerobic digesters supplied with biochar. Biotechnology for Biofuels, 14:185.
  • Abendroth C, Rückert A, Bierwage H, Maletz R, Dornack C. 2021. Das Projektvorhaben Greening Belarus - Export grüner Technologien mit dem Schwerpunkt Kompostierung und Biogas. Müll und Abfall, doi: 10.37307/j.1863-9763.2021.06.03.

2020

  • Javier P, Hahnke S, Abendroth C, Langer T, Ramm P, Klocke M, Luschnig O, Porcar M. 2020. Draft Genome Sequence of a New Oscillospiraceae Bacterium Isolated from Anaerobic Digestion of Biomass. Microbiology Resource Announcements 9: e00507-20.
  • Schwan B, Abendroth C, Latorre-Pérez A, Porcar M, Vilanova C, Dornack C. 2020. Chemically Stressed Bacterial Communities in Anaerobic Digesters Exhibit Resilience and Ecological Flexibility. Frontiers in Microbiology 11:867.
  • Abendroth C, Latorre-Pérez A, Porcar M, Simeonov C, Luschnig O, Vilanova C, Pascual J. 2020. Shedding light on biogas: Phototrophic biofilms in anaerobic digesters hold potential for improved biogas production. Systematic and Applied Microbiology 43, 126024.
  • Ramm P, Abendroth C, Latorre-Pérez A, Herrmann C, Sebök S, Geißler A, Vilanova C, Porcar M, Dornack C, Bürger C, Schwarz H, Luschnig O. 2020.  Ammonia removal during leach-bed acidification leads to optimized organic acid production from chicken manure. Renewable Energy 146, 1021-1030.

2019

  • Hahnke S, Abendroth C, Javier P, Langer T, Ramm P, Klocke M, Luschnig O, Porcar M. 2019. Complete Genome Sequence of a New Clostridium sp. Isolated from Anaerobic Digestion and Biomethanation. Microbiology Resource Announcements 9: e01472-19.
  • Hahnke S, Abendroth C, Javier P, Langer T, Codoñer FM, Ramm P, Klocke M, Luschnig O, Porcar M. 2019. Complete Genome Sequence of a New Bacteroidaceae Bacterium Isolated from Anaerobic Biomass Digestion. Microbiology Resource Announcements 8: e01203-19.

2018

  • Hardegen J, Latorre-Pérez A, Vilanova C, Günther T, Porcar M, Luschnig O, Simeonov C, Abendroth C. 2018. Methanogenic community shifts during the transition from sewage mono-digestion to co-digestion of grass biomass. Bioresource Technology 6, 265-275-281.
  • Hahnke S, Abendroth C, Langer T, Codoñer FM, Ramm P, Porcar M, Luschnig O, Klocke M. 2018. Complete genome sequence of a new Ruminococcaceae bacterium isolated from anaerobic biomass hydrolysis. Genome Announcements 6:e00030-18.
  • Tanner K, Abendroth C, Porcar M. Warm and wet: robust lipase-producing bacteria from the indoor environment, bioRxiv 148148; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/148148.

2017

  • Abendroth C, Hahnke S, Simeonov C, Klocke M, Casani-Miravalls M, Ramm P, Bürger C, Luschnig O, Porcar M. 2017. Microbial communities involved in biogas production exhibit high resilience to heat shocks. Bioresource Technology 249, 1074 – 1079.
  • Abendroth C, Hahnke S, Codoñer FM, Klocke M, Luschnig O. Porcar M. 2017. Complete Genome Sequence of a New Firmicutes Species Isolated from Anaerobic Biomass Hydrolysis. Genome Announcements pii: e00686-17.
  • Abendroth C, Simeonov C, Peretó J, Antúnez O, Gavidia R, Luschnig O, Porcar M. 2017. From grass to gas: microbiome dynamics of grass biomass acidification under mesophilic and thermophilic temperatures. Biotechnology for Biofuels 10:171.

2015

  • Abendroth C, Vilanova C, Günther T, Luschnig O, Porcar M. 2015. Eubacteria and Archaea communities in seven mesophile anaerobic digester plants. Biotechnology for Biofuels 8:87.
  • Abendroth C, Hofmeister A, Hake SB, Kamweru PK, Miess E, Dornblut C, Küffner I, Deng W, Leonhardt H, Orthaus S, Hoischen C, Diekmann S. 2015. The CENP-T C-Terminus Is Exclusively Proximal to H3.1 and not to H3.2 or H3.3. Int J Mol Sci 16, 5839 – 5862.
  • Abendroth C, Wünsche E, Luschnig O, Bürger C, Günther T. 2015. Producing high-strength liquor from mesophilic batch acidification of chicken manure. Waste Managements & Research 33, 291 – 294.

2013

  • Rodríguez-Barreiro R, Abendroth C, Vilanova C, Moya A, Porcar M. 2013. Towards a Microbial Thermoelectric Cell. PlosOne; doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0056358.