Vita
Experience
9/22 – today
Full Professor. Group leader Marine Conservation. Helmholtz Institute for Functional Marine Biodiversity (HIFMB), Oldenburg, Germany
7/19-8/22
Full Professor. Marine Molecular Ecology and Evolution. Department of Biology, The Pennsylvania State University, USA
7/13-6/19
Associate Professor (with tenure). Marine Molecular Ecology and Evolution. Department of Biology, The Pennsylvania State University, USA.
8/07 – 6/13
Assistant Professor. Marine Molecular Ecology and Evolution. Department of Biology, The Pennsylvania State University, USA.
8/06 – 7/07
Assistant Professor – Research. Department of Biology, The Pennsylvania State University, USA.
Education
8/05 – 7/06
Assistant Researcher, Coral Reef Molecular Ecology, University of Hawaii, USA.
6/04 – 8/05
Postdoctoral Researcher to Dr. John McManus, Coral Reef Ecology, University of Miami, USA.
6/04 – 8/05
Postdoctoral Researcher to Dr. Jack Fell, Marine Microbiology, University of Miami, USA.
5/98 – 5/04
Ph.D. Degree at the Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences, University of Miami, USA.
10/97 – 5/00
Diplom Degree, University of Bremen, Germany.
8/96 – 9/97
International exchange student at University of Miami.
10/93 – 7/96
Vordiplom, University of Tuebingen, Germany. Major: Biology.
9/93 – 7/94
Leibniz Kolleg, Tuebingen, Germany.
Research Interests
Iliana Baums studies how corals in the shallow and the deep ocean adapt to a changing climate and environmental stress using molecular tools. Corals are sensitive to very small increases in seawater temperature and there is concern that with global warming most corals will be lost in the next few hundred years.