Vita

Since 2022

PhD student, Senckenberg am Meer (Wilhelmshaven), Department of Marine Research

Research focus: Biodiversity assessment of seagrass meadows and cold water coral reefs in Mauritania through environmental DNA sampling and metabarcoding. Comparing ancient and actual biodiversity through sedimentary ancient DNA.

 2022

Research Assistant, Senckenberg (Frankfurt am Main), Department of Marine Zoology

 2019 – 2021

M.Sc., University of Rostock, Master’s thesis: Reproductive biology of Melamphaes polylepis and Scopelogadus mizolepis mizolepis (Melamphaidae) from the eastern Mid-Atlantic upwelling systems

 2016-2019

B.Sc. in Biological Sciences, Johann-Wolfgang-Goethe-University (Frankfurt am Main), Bachelor’s Thesis: Larval development and distribution of Ranzania laevis (Pennant, 1776) and Masturus lanceolatus (Liénard, 1840) across thermal frontal zones in the Sargasso Sea

Marine Expeditions

30.11.-20.12.2021, Expedition WH451, North- and Baltic Sea, RV Walther Herwig III (Chief Scientist Dr.Pedro Nogueira)

07.10.-15.10.2021, Expedition WH450, North- East Atlantic, RV Walther Herwig III (Chief Scientist Dr.Karl Michael Werner)

16.07.-30.07.2021, Expedition HE580, North Sea, RV Heincke (Chief Scientist Dr.Moritz Sonnewald)

30.11.-20.12.2020, Expedition WH441, North- and Baltic Sea, RV Walther Herwig III (Chief Scientist Dr.Pedro Nogueira)

03.02.-12.02.2020, ExpeditionSO773, Baltic Sea, RV Solea (Chief Scientist Dr.Daniel Oesterwind)

02.12.-22.12.2019, Expedition WH432, North- and Irish Sea, RV Walther Herwig III (Chief Scientist Dr.Pedro Nogueira)

28.07.-03.08.2019, Expedition DOGZ, North Sea, RV Senckenberg (Chief Scientist Dr. Moritz Sonnewald)