UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE

Since 2023

Postdoctoral researcher at the University of Cologne in a DFG funded project on deep sea microbial food webs

2019-2023

Ph.D. in Biology, University of Cologne, Institute of Zoology, thesis on the topic “Biogeography and its impact on benthic heterotrophic protists – investigations from the littoral to the deep sea”

2015-2018

Master of Science in Biological Science with specialisation in ecology and evolution, University of Cologne, thesis on the topic “Diversity and distribution of deep-sea protists in the North Atlantic Ocean and the Caribbean Sea”

2012-2015

Bachelor of Science in Biology, University of Cologne, thesis on the topic “Protist communities of floating Sargassum in the North Atlantic with special consideration of their contribution to deep-sea communities”