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Education |
October 1996 - October 2002: |
Diploma in biology at the University of Basel, Switzerland. |
September 2003 - January 2004: |
November 2002 - June 2003: |
Research Assistant at the Friedrich Miescher Institute (Novartis, Basel, Switzerland). Working with proteins involved in DNA repair mechanisms (B. Hohn group). |
Internship at the Department of Cell and Organism Biology at the University of Lund, Sweden (D.E. Nilsson group). Working on adaptation of spider eyes (Leucorchestris arenicola) to dim light. |
February 2004 - July 2008: |
PhD-thesis at Eawag/ETH Zurich, Switzerland. Working on microbial litter decomposition and methane emissions in a littoral Phragmites australis wetland influenced by global warming and nitrate deposition (Supervisor: M.O. Gessner). |
Research experience |
October 2008 - December 2008: |
Postdoc at Eawag/ETH Zurich, Switzerland. Working on litter decomposition in lakes (M.O. Gessner group). |
February 2009 - present: |
Postdoc at the Center for Geomicrobiology, University of Aarhus Denmark. Working on sediment methane fluxes in the Baltic Sea. |
Education |
Consulting for Reservoir Environmental Mgt., Inc., Chattanooga, USA. Working on modeling artificial oxygenation of reservoirs. |
July 2008 - October 2008: |
Research Cruises |
April 22-25, 2009: |
RV Aranda; Baltic Sea (Gulf of Finnland, Gotland Deep); sediment and pore water sampling for methane, TN, TC, sulfate, sulfide, and DIC . |
November 5-11, 2010: |
RV Oceania; Baltic Sea (Gdansk Bay); Pore water station leader (sediment and pore water sampling for methane, TN, TC, sulfate, sulfide, and DIC). |