Zentrum für Marine Umweltwissenschaften

Ausbildung / Karriere

Cluster Ozeanboden

C.V.

Employment / Roles

2021 - present	Senior Scientist - MARUM, Center for Marine Environmental Research, University of Bremen
2021 - present	Guest Scientist - Biogeochemistry Department
2021 -present	Speaker for the Receiver Research Unit in the MARUM Cluster of Excellence
2020 - 2021	Postdoctoral scientist working within the framework of the Marum Cluster of Excellence "The Ocean Floor - Earth's Uncharted Interface" in the Receiver research unit
2016-2019	Postdoctoral scientist on "Assessment of ground- and porewater-derived nutrient fluxes into the German North Sea - Is there a" Barrier Island Mass Effect (BIME) "? Funded by the Lower Saxony Ministry for Science and Art.
2014-2016	Postdoctoral scientist, Biogeochemistry department, Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology;Germany
2010-2014	Dr.rer.nat. Thesis title:Nitrogen cycling in coastal permeable sediments from eutrophied regions.Biogeochemistry department, Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology, awarded by University of Bremen, Germany
2008-2010	MSc Marine Microbiology The effect of ocean acidification on nitrogen cycling in coastal permeable coastal sediments.The International Max Planck Research School of Marine Microbiology
2005 - 2008	BSc Marine Biology Thesis Title:Physiological responses of the limpet Patella vulgata to short term hypercapnia.University of Plymouth, England

Awards and fellowships

2021	PI on DFG Research Group "DynaDeep"
2017	Best poster prize, Fifth International Conference on Nitrification and Related Processes
2008	MBA Prize for best student in the Plymouth University BSc Marine Biology class
2007 & 2008	SGM undergraduate microbiology prize for scholarship in microbiology
2007	Royal Society of Biochemistry Summer Studentship researching the defenses of coral associated bacteria against damaging free radicals

Teaching experience

2019 - present	Direct supervision of Farooq Moin Jalaluddin, PhD student, Biogeochemistry department, Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology
2015-2019	Direct supervision of Katharina Kitzinger, PhD student, Biogeochemistry department, Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology
10/2018 - 03/2019	Direct supervision of Olivia Metcalf and Jan von Arx, MSc students, Biogeochemistry department, Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology
10/2017 - 03/2018	Direct supervision of David Benito Merino, MSc students, Biogeochemistry department, Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology
10/2017 - 03/2018	Co-supervision of Elisa Merz, MSc student, University of Rostock and AWI
10/2014 - 03/2015	Direct supervision of Kerry Latham, MSc student, Biogeochemistry department, Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology
10/2014 - 03/2015	Co-supervision of Chao Peng, MSc student, Biogeochemistry department, Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology

Thesis / Defense committee member for

2020 - Present	Thesis committee member for Manuel Ruben, Marine Geochemistry Section, Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Institute for Polar and Marine Research
2018-2020	Thesis committee member for Niek Stortenbecker, Microbial Physiology group, Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology
2018 - present	Thesis committee member for Elisa Merz, Microsensors, Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology
06/2016	Defense committee member, Frederiek-Maarten Kerckhof, Center for Microbial Ecology and Technology - FBE - Ghent University
10/2015	Defense committee member, Helen Decleyre, Dept.Biochemistry and Microbiology, Ghent University

Teaching activities

Since 2013	Lecturer for MarMic graduate school, Biogeochemical cycling and global change;Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology
2014	Teacher at Symbiomics Field Workshop, Elba
2012	Lecturer for early diagensis for ISATEC M.Sc, University of Bremen
2010	Teaching assistant on a 1 week residential field course;MarMic school, MPI Bremen