(Completed PhD studies are marked in bold, the links refer to the full text of the final theses)

Huaming Wu, former PhD student (graduated in 2024):
Thesis: Interactions of cyanobacterial blooms with physical processes in lakes

José Schreckinger, former postdoc (2021 - 2024)

Lorenzo Rovelli, former postdoc (2019 - 2023)

Lediane Marcon, former PhD student (graduated in 2023, double degree with Federal University of Paraná in Curitiba, Brazil):
Thesis: Investigation of Spatial and Temporal Dynamics of Ebullition in Impoundments

Christine Anlanger, former PhD student (graduated in 2023):
Thesis: Interactions between flow hydrodynamics and biofilm attributes and functioning in stream ecosystems

Caroline Ganglo, former PhD student (graduated in 2023):
Thesis: Effects of an anthropogenic stressor on carbon biogeochemical processes and fluxes in water to land transition zones of ponds

Rafael de Carvalho Bueno, former PhD student (graduated in 2023, double degree with Federal University of Paraná in Curitiba, Brazil):
 Thesis: Internal seiche field in thermally stratified lakes

Ute Risse-Buhl, former postdoc (2022 - 2023)

Gerrit Rau, former researcher (2019 - 2023)

Sofya Guseva, former PhD student (graduated in 2022):
 Thesis: Energy flux paths and air-water exchange in freshwater ecosystems

Eliana Bohórquez, former PhD student (graduated in 2022, double degree with Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Sede Medellín):
 Thesis: Physical processes influence on the dynamics of the main greenhouse gases in mountain tropical reservoirs

Mayra Ishikawa, former PhD student (graduated in 2022):
Thesis: Fate of nutrients in a subtropical reservoir according to hydrodynamic processes and its effects on phytoplankton dynamics

Christoph Bors, former technician (2014 - 2022)

Lianghong Long, former PhD student (graduated in 2020):
 Thesis: Effects of damming and reservoir regulation on hydrodynamics and thermal regimes in large cascade reservoir of the Yangtze River, China

Zhengjian Yang, visiting researcher from China Three Gorges University (2020)

Zhongyong Yang, visiting researcher from China Three Gorges University (2019 - 2020)

Christian Noß, former postoc (2009 - 2019)

Felipe Bretón, visiting researcher (2019)

Xingqiang Wu, visiting researcher from Chinese Academy of Sciences (2018 - 2019)

Liu Liu, former PhD student (graduated in 2018):
 Thesis: Mechanisms of methane bubble formation, storage and release in freshwater sediments

Pascal Bodmer, former postdoc (2016 - 2018)

Jeremy Wilkinson, former postdoc (2014 - 2018)

Florian Burgis, former researcher (2015 - 2018)

Erni Murniati, former PhD student (graduated in 2017):
 Thesis: Physical-biological interactions controlling the variability of oxygen fluxes across the sediment-water interface

Kaan Koca, former researcher (2014 - 2017)

Julika Weck (née Kreling), former PhD student (graduated in 2016):
 Thesis: The formation, persistence and consequences of pelagic redoxclines

Bruno Lemaire, visiting researcher (2015 - 2016)

Zeyad Alshboul, former PhD student (graduated in 2016):
 Thesis: Water management practices and anthropogenic carbon sources alter the patterns of CH4 and CO2 emissions from inland waters

Azzaya Tumendelger, visiting researcher from Mongolian Academy of Sciences (2015 - 2016)

Celia Somlai-Haase, former researcher (2013 - 2015)

Lalith Wickramarathna, former PhD student (graduated in 2016):
 Thesis: Kinematics and Energetics of Swimming Zooplankton

Andreas Mäck, former PhD student (graduated in 2014):
 Thesis: Understanding Methane Emissions from Impounded Rivers - A Process-based Approach to Quantify Methane Emission Rates in Space and Time

Sebastian Geissler, former technician (2010 -2014)

Oluyemi Afe, former postdoc (2009 - 2012)

Olexandr Lednyts’kyy, former researcher (2011 - 2012)