Education

2018-2024: PhD at German Centre for Marine Biodiversity Research (DZMB), Senckenberg am Meer, Wilhelmshaven and Carl von Ossietzky University Oldenburg. Thesis: "Macrofauna of hydrothermal vent areas in the Indian Ocean – composition, molecular and functional diversity" supervised by Martinez Arbizu, Pedro and and Kihara, Terue C.

2015-2018: Master of Science Biologie at University of Hamburg with main focus on ecology and genetics. Thesis: "Macrofauna and Peracarida (Crustacea, Malacostraca) diversity from the Central Indian Ridge" supervised by Schwentner, Martin and Kihara, Terue C.

2011-2015: Bachelor of Science Biologie at University of Hamburg. Thesis: "A new hadal species of Macrostylidae (Isopoda) from the Puerto Rico Trench" supervised by Brandt, Angelika and Riehl, Torben

Scientific Experience

since February 2024: Postdoc at Leibniz Institute for Baltic Sea Research Warnmünde in the working group Ecology of benthic organisms within in the project ArKoBi.

2023: Research Assistant, Integrated Environmental Solutions UG, Wilhelmshaven. Participation in the cruise INDEX2023, sampling, data collection and research reporting.

2022: Research Assistant, German Centre for Marine Biodiversity Research (DZMB), Senckenberg am Meer, Wilhelmshaven. Continued financing of the PhD, data collection of benthic Macrofauna in the Indian Ocean and research reporting to the International Seabed Authority (ISA).

2018-2021: Doctoral scholarship of Senckenberg Society for Nature Research, Frankfurt.

2015-2017: Student Assistant at the Zoological Museum, Hamburg. Processing of deep-sea sediment samples, Identification of the picked benthic macrofauna, illustration of Peracarida with Adobe Illustrator for further use in species descriptions.

Marine Research Expeditions

ARKOBI 2024 – Fortuna Kingfisher – Rostock/ Rostock – 02.09.-10.09.2024 Cruise in the southern Baltic Sea to study Arctica islandica (Fahrtleitung Dr. Fabian Wolf)

LEGRA 2024 (EMB343) – FS Elisabeth Mann Borgese – Rostock/ Rostock – 21.06.-02.07.2024 Cruise in the southern Baltic Sea (chief scientist Dr. Katharina Romoth)

INDEX 2023_1 and INDEX 2023_2 – FS Sonne – Port Louis/ Port Louis – 05.09.-19.11.2023 Cruise to hydrothermal vents of Central and Southeast Indian Ridge (chief scientists Dr. Udo Barckhausen and Dr. Thomas Kuhn)

INDEX 2022_3 – RV Pelagia – Port Louis/ Port Louis – 08.12.-31.12.2022 Cruise to hydrothermal vents of Central and Southeast Indian Ridge (chief scientist Dr. Thomas Kuhn)

INDEX 2021_1 and INDEX 2021_2 – RV Pelagia – Port Louis/ Port Louis – 08.10.-30.11.2021 Cruise to hydrothermal vents of Central and Southeast Indian Ridge (chief scientists Dr. Udo Barckhausen and Dr. Thomas Kuhn)

INDEX 2019_1 and INDEX 2019_2 – FS SONNE – Port Louis/ Port Louis – 31.10.2019-10.01.2020 Cruise to hydrothermal vents of Central and Southeast Indian Ridge (chief scientists Dr. Ulrich Schwarz-Schampera and Dr. Udo Barckhausen)

INDEX 2018_2 – RV Pelagia – Port Louis/ Port Louis – 10.10.-17.12.2018 Cruise to hydrothermal vents of Central and Southeast Indian Ridge (chief scientist Dr. Ulrich Schwarz-Schampera)

INDEX 2017 – FS SONNE – Colombo/ Cape Town – 23.08-13.10.2017 Cruise to hydrothermal vents of Central and Southeast Indian Ridge (chief scientist Dr. Ulrich Schwarz-Schampera)

INDEX 2016_1 – N/O Pourqoui Pas? – St. Denis/ St. Denis – 03.01.-03.02.2016 Cruise to hydrothermal vents of Central and Southeast Indian Ridge (chief scientist Dr. Ulrich Schwarz-Schampera)

Sokho Bio – R/V Akademik M.A. Lavrentyev – Vladivostok/ Vladivostok – 06.07.-06.08.2015 Cruise to Kuril Basin of the Sea of Okhotsk, Bussol Strait (chief scientist Dr. Victor V. Ivin)