Professional Experience
University Assistant 2009-present in the Department of Marine Biology at the University of Vienna
PostDoc 2006-2009 at the NIOZ. During the time at the NIOZ participation in EU and NWO funded projects: COMET, AIRWIN, BADE, TRANSAT, ARCHIMEDES and VIPeR
Ph.D. 2006, Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research,
Texel, Netherlands – Ph.D. Thesis:"Prokaryotic respiration and
production in the open ocean" supervision Prof. Dr. Gerhard J. Herndl
M.Sc. 1999, University of Vienna, Dept. of Marine Biology,
Vienna, Austria – M.Sc. Thesis: "Coexistence and nutrition by
the Mediterranean holothuroids Holothuria tubulosa and Holothuria polii
(Echinodermata) at the island of Elba, Italy" supervision Prof. Dr.
Jörg Ott
Research Interests and Expertise
- Microbial mediated carbon cycling: Prokaryotic respiration and biomass production in the coastal and open ocean
- Linking biogeochemistry and microbial oceanography
- Influence of temperature on microbial activity
- Influence of UV irradiation on microbial activity
- Linking prokaryotic community structure to prokaryotic activity
- Deep water prokaryotic activity under in situ pressure conditions
- Gene expression of prokaryotic communities
Teaching
- Biogeochemistry of the Oceans, 4 ECTS, University of Vienna
- Introductory Course Marine Biology, course, 6 ECTS, University of Vienna
- Advanced Marine Ecology, course, 10 ECTS, University of Vienna
- Advances in Marine Biology part 1, seminar, 2 ECTS, University of Vienna
- Advances in Marine Biology part 2, seminar, 2 ECTS, University of Vienna
- Recent literature in Marine Ecology and Oceanography, seminar, 3 ECTS, University of Vienna
- Assistant teacher in microbial oceanography courses for University of Utrecht and Groningen, the Netherlands
- Lectures at the University of Groningen (RUG) on Pelagic Food Webs
Affiliations
- American Society of Limnology and Oceanography
- American Society for Microbiology
- European Geological Union
Editorial Board
- Editorial board for Microbial Informatics and Experimentation
Reviewer for
- Aquatic Microbial Ecology
- Biogeosciences
- Deep Sea Research
- FEMS Microbiology Letters
- Journal Geophysical Research
- Journal of Marine Systems
- Limnology and Oceanography
- Limnology and Oceanography: Methods
- Nature Geoscience
- Netherlands Journal of Sea Research
- The ISME Journal