Experience

International Council for the Exploration of the Sea (ICES)

• Research Services
• 200 - 300 Employee

• ICES Lead Editor

  • Sep 2022 - Present

• Editor

  • Jan 2019 - Sep 2022



Copenhagen University

• Helsingør

• Marie Curie Research Fellow

  • May 2015 - Dec 2018



Leibniz Institute for Baltic Sea Research

• Rostock Area, Germany

• Postdoctoral researcher

  • Mar 2012 - Sep 2012

  Line of investigation: Comparison of molecular and microscopy techniques for the analysis of protist diversity in Baltic Sea hypoxic water masses. Collaborators: Felix Weber, Prof. Dr. Klaus Jürgens, Dr. Alexander Mylnikov and Prof. Dr. Wilhelm Foissner Line of investigation: Comparison of molecular and microscopy techniques for the analysis of protist diversity in Baltic Sea hypoxic water masses. Collaborators: Felix Weber, Prof. Dr. Klaus Jürgens, Dr. Alexander Mylnikov and Prof. Dr. Wilhelm Foissner



Leibniz Institute for Baltic Sea Research and University of Rostock

• Rostock Area, Germany

• PhD student

  • Jan 2008 - Mar 2012

  Line of investigation: Protist diversity and ecology in Baltic Sea hypoxic water masses. Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Klaus Jürgens Techniques employed: anaerobic protist and bacteria cultivation, FISH, CARD-FISH, RNA and DNA extraction, PCR, qPCR, fingerprinting techniques (DGGE, SSCP), RNA-Stable Isotope Probing, microscopy (epifluorescence and inverted), methods to determine protist bacterivory (FLB, predator-exclusion, food vacuole analysis). Line of investigation: Protist diversity and ecology in Baltic Sea hypoxic water masses. Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Klaus Jürgens Techniques employed: anaerobic protist and bacteria cultivation, FISH, CARD-FISH, RNA and DNA extraction, PCR, qPCR, fingerprinting techniques (DGGE, SSCP), RNA-Stable Isotope Probing, microscopy (epifluorescence and inverted), methods to determine protist bacterivory (FLB, predator-exclusion, food vacuole analysis).



Leibniz Institute for Baltic Sea Research and University of Greifswald

• Rostock Area, Germany

• Teaching assistant

  • 2010 - 2010

  Supervised a 3 month practical course on the development and application of techniques to determine protist grazing in culture and in the field Supervised a 3 month practical course on the development and application of techniques to determine protist grazing in culture and in the field



Universität Rostock

• Germany
• Research Services
• 700 & Above Employee

• Teaching assistant

  • 2008 - 2010

  I taught introduction to protist fixation, sample handling and enumeration techniques, and principles of microscopy (epifluorescence and inverted) in the Microbial Ecology practical course of the University Rostock I taught introduction to protist fixation, sample handling and enumeration techniques, and principles of microscopy (epifluorescence and inverted) in the Microbial Ecology practical course of the University Rostock



UNSW

• Australia
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Graduate research assistant

  • Sep 2007 - Dec 2007

  Line of investigation: Vulnerability of bacteria in the starvation-survival state to protist grazing Collaborators: Prof. Dr. Klaus Jürgens, Dr. Diane McDougald, Prof. Dr. Staffan Kjelleberg Batch-culture bacterivory assays; procedures to obtain axenic protist cultures; microscopy image analysis to determine bacterial and protist size and biomass; methods to obtain carbon starved bacterial cultures Line of investigation: Vulnerability of bacteria in the starvation-survival state to protist grazing Collaborators: Prof. Dr. Klaus Jürgens, Dr. Diane McDougald, Prof. Dr. Staffan Kjelleberg Batch-culture bacterivory assays; procedures to obtain axenic protist cultures; microscopy image analysis to determine bacterial and protist size and biomass; methods to obtain carbon starved bacterial cultures



University of the Basque Country

• Education Administration Programs
• 700 & Above Employee

• Undegraduate research assistant

  • 2003 - 2007

  Line of investigation: Chemical cues employed by protist grazers to detect their bacterial prey Additional responsibilities: Maintenance of the protist culture collection Collaborators: Prof. Dr. Juan Iriberri, Dr. Begona Ayo, Aitxiber Txakartegi Batch culturing; methods to determine protist selection: T-mazes, multipipette assays; video microscopy Line of investigation: Chemical cues employed by protist grazers to detect their bacterial prey Additional responsibilities: Maintenance of the protist culture collection Collaborators: Prof. Dr. Juan Iriberri, Dr. Begona Ayo, Aitxiber Txakartegi Batch culturing; methods to determine protist selection: T-mazes, multipipette assays; video microscopy



Private classes

• Bilbao Area, Spain

• English teacher

  • 2003 - 2007