History

1 December 2024
Focus Group Photosymbiosis starts

August 2024
Moving into the new HIFMB building

1 January 2024
Start of the Transfer Office for Marine Biodiversity Change

27 + 28 June 2023
4th Symposium on Functional Marine Biodiversity

June 2023
Start of EXC² Exchange Program with Nelson Mandela University in South Africa

January 2023
Start of artist in residence program “ArtWaves” together with Hanse-Wissenschaftskolleg (HWK)

30 September 2022
Helmholtz President Otmar Wiestler visits on the occasion of the 5th birthday of the HIFMB

29 August 2022
Iliana Baums appointed to professor of Marine Conservation

8 June 2022
E.O. Wilson Lecture: Alexandre Antonelli

31 May 2022
5th birthday of the HIFMB

15 March 2022
Foundation stone laid for the Oldenburg Helmholtz-Institute

13 February 2022
A. Murat Eren (Meren) appointed to professor of Ecosystem Data Science

7 + 8 September 2021
3rd Symposium on Functional Marine Biodiversity

21 July 2021
Groundbreaking of the new HIFMB building

31 December 2020
End of the establishment phase of the HIFMB financed by AWI, UOL and the State of Lower Saxony

01 September 2020
Focus Group Marine Political Ecology starts

01 June 2020
Launch of MARISCO (Marine Research and Innovation for a Sustainable Management of Coasts and Oceans) with the National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis at the University of California, Santa Barbara (USA) and the Institute for Coastal and Marine Research at Nelson Mandela University, Port Elizabeth (South Africa)

20 April 2020
Kimberley Peters appointed to professor of Marine Governance

13 January 2020
First HIFMB professorship is appointed: Thilo Gross for Biodiversity Theory

03–05 June 2019
2nd Symposium on Functional Marine Biodiversity

25 February 2019
Visit at iDIV: Initiation and design of the cooperation

04 February 2019
First visit to University of Bielefeld, Scoping Workshop

11 January 2019
Lower Saxony’s Minister of Science Björn Thümler visits HIFMB

22–24 October 2018
First visit to Nelson Mandela University to initiate international cooperation

01 August 2018
First focus group Marine Molecular Ecology starts

01 April 2018
First PhD students are hired

01 September 2017
Move into our own rented offices in the Ammerländer Heerstraße

First postdocs are hired

10 August 2017
BMBF State Secretary Thomas Rachel visits Oldenburg University and the HIFMB

20–21 June 2017
First HIFMB Symposium on Functional Marine Biodiversity – Integrative Research Perspectives

31 May 2017
Foundation of the Helmholtz Institute for Functional Marine Biodiversity Research