Christa Schleper is a German microbiologist known for her work on the evolution and ecology of Archaea.
Schleper is Head of the Department of Functional and Evolutionary Biology at the University of Vienna in Austria.
[3] Schleper is known for research advancing understanding of uncultivated Archaea in marine and terrestrial systems.
[4] Schleper went on to isolate multiple thermophilic Archaea capable of growth under acidic conditions,[5][6] and led 16S RNA surveys to define the distribution of crenarchaeota in terrestrial environments.
[14] Schleper has three patents granted: Isolation and cloning of DNA from uncultivated organisms,[15] Archaeon expression system[16] and Nucleic acids and proteins from Cenarchaeum symbiosum.