CV

2021 – present	Head of Polar Biological Oceanography Section at AWI.
2020 – present	Sub-Topic Speaker for ‘The Future Biological Carbon Pump’ within the POF IV Helmholtz Research Program ‘Changing Earth – Sustaining our Future’.
2020 – present	Leader of AWI-MARUM bridging group SeaPump.
2019 – 2020	Deputy Head of Polar Biological Oceanography Section at AWI.
2014 – 2020	Leader of Helmholtz Young Investigator Group “SeaPump” at AWI, Marum, and University of Bremen.
2019 – present	Professor auf Zeit, §17, at Uni-Bremen (currently negotiating for W2 Professorship at Uni-Bremen).
2018 – 2021	Speaker for MARUM Cluster of Excellence ”The Ocean in Earth System” for the research area Receiver.
2017 – present	Member of the German Marine Research Consortium – Open Ocean Observation with German contribution: current status and future needs.
2016 – present	Member of the SCOR Working Group 150 – Translation of Optical Measurements into particle Content, Aggregation & Transfer (TOMCAT)
2015 – present	Faculty member of Faculty of Geoscience at University of Bremen, FB05
2015 – present	Faculty member of the International Max Planck Research School of Marine Microbiology, MarMic
2009 – 2014	Post Doc at MARUM, FB05, Uni-Bremen
2006 – 2009	Ph.D. thesis at Max Planck Institute in Bremen, Alfred-Wegener-Institut für Polar- und Meeresforschung in Bremerhaven and at MARUM - RCOM (Research Center Ocean Margins).
2004 – 2005	Master thesis on degradation processes of fecal pellets, Danish Institute for Fisheries Research Charlottenlund (DK) & Southern University of Denmark Odense (DK)
Summer 2004	Research assistant - Southern University of Denmark
2003 – 2004	Research assistant - Roskilde University, Denmark
2003 – 2004	Master in Biological Oceanography, Leibniz-Institut für Meereswissenschaften Kiel (D) & Southern University of Denmark Odense (DK)
2000 – 2003	Biology study, Roskilde University, DK Bachelor in environmental biology: Ecophysiology and Ecotoxicology
2001 – 2005	Teaching natural science at ground school, Denmark