Lebenslauf

 

Employment

2020 - present Postdoctoral scientistworking within the framework of the Marum Cluster of Excellence "The Ocean Floor - Earth's Uncharted Interface" in the Receiver research unit
2016-2019 Postdoctoral scientiston "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
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