Member of several Professional Bodies:

• Member of the ESSC Panel “Life and Physical Sciences” (since 02/2025)
• EANA (Vice-president since 10/2025, chair of EANA 2024 meeting in Graz, Austrian representative since 09/2022, Secretary 09/2019-10/2025, elected council member 09/2019-09/2022, member since 07/2013)
• EAI (interim board 02/2018-05/2019, board of trustees 03/2020-06/2020, management committee 05/2019 - 06/2022), co-organiser EAI Academy since 2021)
• Deputy leader of the European Astrobiology Campus (EAI, 05/2019 - 06/2022)
• Deutsche Astrobiologische Gesellschaft DAbG (German Astrobiology Society) (member since 10/2018)
• AbGradE committee (10/2014-05/2023, president 09/2016-05/2023)
• EGU PS ECS (EGU Early Career Scientists in Planetary and Solar System Science) and EPEC (Europlanet Early Career) member 2014-2017

Reviewer for several Journals in the field of astrobiology, microbiology, and space research:

• Nature Astronomy (ISSN: 2397-3366)
• Astrobiology (ISSN: 1531-1074)
• Life Sciences in Space Research (ISSN: 2214-5524)
• Research in Microbiology (ISSN: 0923-2508)
• Life (ISSN: 2075-1729)
• Origins of Life and Evolution of Biospheres (ISSN: 0169-6149)
• Science Robotics (ISSN: 2470-9476)
• Acta Astronautica (ISSN: 1879-2030)

Co-editor of the special issues “Open Questions and Next Steps in Astrobiology in Europe - Celebrating 20 Years of EANA” (2022) and “Special Issue EANA 2024” (to be published) in the International Journal of Astrobiology

(Co-)Lecturer of courses related to Astrobiology at the Technical University in Graz (since 2024), JKU Linz (2021/22) and University of Vienna (2014-2016)

Member of more than 25 (scientific) organizing committees for international conferences, workshops, lecture series, summer/spring schools, etc. (since 2012)

Jury member of “VWA-MINT-Preise der ÖAW” for Physics, Astronomy, and Space Sciences (since 2022)

Jury member of “Jugend Forscht” for Geo- and Space Sciences (Federal Contest, since 2022)

Lecturer and Tutor at the FFG ESA Summer School Alpbach (2024/25)

Mentor at the mentoring program “Karriere:MINT” of the University of Applied Sciences Bremerhaven, Germany (2021)

• Taubner R.-S., Baumann L. M. F., Steiner M., Pfeifer K., Reischl B., Korynt K., Bauersach T., Mähnert B., Clifford E. L., Peckmann J., Schuster B., Birgel D., Rittmann S. K.-M. R., 2023, Lipidomics and Comparative Metabolite Excretion Analysis of Methanogenic Archaea Reveal Organism-Specific Adaptations to Varying Temperatures and Substrate Concentrations, mSystems 8:e01159-22. doi: 10.1128/msystems.01159-22
• Cavalazzi B., Westall F., Noack L., Taubner R.-S., Milojevic T., Finster K., 2022, Open Questions and Next Steps in Astrobiology in Europe - Celebrating 20 Years of EANA (Editorial), International Journal of Astrobiology 21(5):261-267. doi:10.1017/S1473550422000362
• Nauny P., Cassaro A., Kopacz N., Noack L., Palabikyan H., Pinna S., Price A., Stavrakakis H. A., Taubner R.-S., 2022, Reaching out to early-career astrobiologists: AbGradE's actions and perspectives, International Journal of Astrobiology; doi:10.1017/S1473550422000040.
• Baumann L. M. F., Taubner R.-S., Oláh K., Rohrweber A.-C., Schuster B., Birgel D., Rittmann S. K.-M. R., 2022, Quantitative Analysis of Core Lipid Production in Methanothermobacter marburgensis at Different Scales. Bioengineering 9(4):169. doi: 10.3390/bioengineering9040169
• Jebbar M., Hickman-Lewis K., Cavalazzi B., Taubner R.-S., Rittmann S. K.-M. R., Antunes A., 2020, Microbial Diversity and Biosignatures: An Icy Moons Perspective, Space Science Reviews 216, 10; doi:10.1007/s11214-019-0620-z.
• Taubner R.-S., Olsson-Francis K., Vance S. D., Ramkissoon N. K., Postberg F., de Vera J.-P., Antunes A., Camprubi Casas E., Sekine Y., Noack L., Barge L., Goodman J., Jebbar M., Journaux B., Karatekin Ö., Klenner F., Rabbow E., Rettberg P., Rückriemen-Bez T., Saur J., Shibuya T., Soderlund K. M., 2020, Experimental and Simulation Efforts in the Astrobiological Exploration of Exooceans, Space Science Reviews 216, 9; doi:10.1007/s11214-020-0635-5.
• Taubner R.-S. & Baumann L. M. F., Bauersachs T., Clifford E. L., Mähnert B., Reischl B., Seifert R., Peckmann J., Rittmann S. K.-M. R., Birgel D., 2019, Membrane Lipid Composition and Amino Acid Excretion Patterns of Methanothermococcus okinawensis Grown in the Presence of Inhibitors Detected in the Enceladian Plume, Life 9(4), 85; doi:10.3390/life9040085.
• Baumann L. M. F. & Taubner R.-S., Bauersachs T., Steiner M., Schleper C., Peckmann J., Rittmann S. K.-M. R., Birgel D., 2018, Intact polar lipid and core lipid inventory of the hydrothermal vent methanogens Methanocaldococcus villosus and Methanothermococcus okinawensis, Organic Geochemistry 126, 33-42; doi:10.1016/j.orggeochem.2018.10.006.
• Taubner R.-S., Pappenreiter P., Zwicker J., Smrzka D., Pruckner C., Kolar P., Bernacchi S., Seifert A. H., Krajete A., Bach W., Peckmann J., Paulik C., Firneis M. G., Schleper C., Rittmann S K.-M. R., 2018, Biological methane production under putative Enceladus-like conditions, Nature Communications 9, 748; doi:10.1038/s41467-018-02876-y.
• Taubner R.-S., Leitner J. J., Firneis M. G., Hitzenberger R., 2016, Modelling the Interior Structure of Enceladus Based on the 2014’s Cassini Gravity Data; Origins of Life and Evolution of Biospheres 46, 283-288; doi:10.1007/s11084-015-9475-9.
• Taubner R.-S. & Rittmann S. K.-M. R., 2016, Method for Indirect Quantification of CH₄ Production via H₂O Production Using Hydrogenotrophic Methanogens; Frontiers in Microbiology 7, 532; doi:10.3389/fmicb.2016.00532.
• Taubner R.-S., Schleper C., Firneis M. G., Rittmann S. K.-M. R., 2015, Assessing the Ecophysiology of Methanogens in the Context of Recent Astrobiological and Planetological Studies, Life 5, 1652-1686; doi:10.3390/life5041652.

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