Vita
2018 – today
Lead of the Focus Group Marine Molecular Ecology at Helmholtz Institute for Functional Marine Biodiversity at the University of Oldenburg, HIFMB
2017 – 2018
EXIST Business Start-up Grant
2010 – 2017
Postdoctoral Fellow, German Center for Marine Biodiversity Research (DZMB), Senckenberg am Meer, Wilhelmshaven, Germany
2009 – 2010
Postdoctoral Fellow, Institute of Marine Ecosystem and Fishery Science, Hamburg, Germany
2005 – 2009
Dissertation at the University of Bremen, Germany
2000 – 2005
Study of Biology at the University of Bremen, Germany
1998 – 2000
Study of Biology at the University of Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Research Interests
I am interested in the diversity, phylogeny and ecology of marine metazoans (especially zooplankton). I aim at using the strengths of different techniques and integrated approaches to identify temporal and spatial occurrences of species, assemblages and communities and to integrate environmental DNA analyses into marine biodiversity and ecosystem functioning research.