Vita
2025 – today
Postdoctoral Researcher at the HIFMB
2020 – 2025
Doctoral Researcher in the Marine Chemistry group (AG Harder), University of Bremen and Alfred-Wegener-Institut
2016 – 2018
M. Sc. Chemistry, University of Bremen
M. Sc. student in the Marine Chemistry group (AG Harder), University of Bremen
2013 – 2016
B. Sc. Chemistry, two subject studies in Chemistry and Biology, University of Bremen
B. Sc. student in the Ecotrace group (AG Trimborn) at Alfred-Wegener-Institut (AWI)
Research Interests
I am interested in the formation and fate of diversity ranging from molecules (chemodiversity) to organism (biodiversity). My current focus is on genome size and cell size of unicellular plankton within environmental constraints that may form tipping points in biodiversity.
Project within the HIPP cohort (call 2025)
From our human perspective, unicellular plankton is extremely tiny, yet they form the foundation of all marine food webs and the marine carbon cycle. From the perspective of plankton cell, they span a size spectrum from small bacteria (<2 µm) to multiple magnitudes larger diatoms (>250 µm). Within this project I am investigating the question whether anthropogenic climate change causes a “tipping point” in the size spectrum of unicellular plankton and how it will affect biodiversity and the carbon cycle.