Curriculum Vitae

since 2014	Research Director (tenured civil servant) at the Department of Geosciences, University of Bremen
2011-2013	Senior Research Councilor (tenured civil servant) at the Department of Geosciences, University of Bremen
since 2005	Senior Scientist (tenured) at MARUM - Center for Marine Environmental Sciences, University of Bremen
2003-2005	Senior Research Associate (tenure-track) at RCOM - Research Center Ocean Margins, University of Bremen
2000-2003	Postdoc at the Max-Planck-Institute for Marine Microbiology, Bremen
1999-2000	Postdoc at GEOMAR - Research Center for Marine Geosciences, Kiel
1999	PhD at the University of Kiel; Title of the thesis: "Microbial biomarkers in marine environments dominated by methane"
1996-1999	Stipent at GEOMAR - Research Center for Marine Geosciences and member of the graduate school "Dynamics of global cycles in the system Earth" at the University of Kiel
1988-1995	Studies of chemistry (diploma degree) at the Unversity of Kiel