CV

Education and academic positions
 
since 03/2024               Simon’s Postdoctoral Fellow in Microbial Ecology at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, advisors: Stefan Sievert and Ken Buesseler

03/2022 – 02/2024       Postdoctoral Scholar at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Ocean Twilight Zone Project, advisors: Ken Buesseler and Stefan Sievert

10/2016 – 12/2022       PhD at Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology, Bremen, Germany, Thesis: “Sinking particles control fixed nitrogen-loss in the Peruvian oxygen minimum zone”, advisor: Marcel Kuypers

10/2014 – 09/2016       MSc in Biological Oceanography at GEOMAR / Kiel University
Thesis: “Adaptations of a sulfur oxidizing bacterial taxon to symbiotic and free-living lifestyles”, supervised by Stefan Sievert (WHOI) and Ute Hentschel-Humeida (GEOMAR)

10/2010 – 11/2014        BSc in Biology at Kiel University
Thesis: “Accumulation of marine gel particles in an indoor mesocosm experiment and its potential effects on air-sea gas exchange”, supervised by Anja Engel (GEOMAR)

Grants, honors and awards received
 
07/2023                       Simon’s Postdoctoral Fellowship in Microbial Ecology
02/2023                       BIOS Grant-in-Aid for collaborative research stay at Bermuda Institute of Ocean Science
06/2022                       WHOI interdisciplinary award for development of RotoBOD incubator
12/2021                       WHOI Postdoctoral Scholarship
02/2022                       MARUM Research Award for Marine Science
10/2011                       German National Scholarship Program ’Deutschlandstipendium’