Vita
2024 – today
Scientist in the Plankton Ecology Project Group at Helmholtz Institute for Functional Marine Biodiversity at the University of Oldenburg, HIFMB
2018 – 2024
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 marine metazoan biodiversity, ecology, evolution and in the development, evaluation and implementation of molecular species identification techniques. I am using the strengths of integrated approaches to detect patterns in diversity and compositions in coastal, open ocean, pelagic and benthic communities with special emphasis on monitoring and conservation purposes in our changing ocean.