About me

Professional Experience

Senior Scientist 2015-present 
Department of Functional and Evolutionary Ecology at the University of Vienna

University Assistant 2009-2015
Department of Marine Biology at the University of Vienna

PostDoc 2006-2009
Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research, Texel, Netherlands

Ph.D. 2006
Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research, Texel, Netherlands

M.Sc. 1999
Dept. of Marine Biology, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria

B.Sc. 1994
Dept. of Zoology, University of Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria

Research Interests

• Microbial mediated carbon cycling: Prokaryotic respiration and biomass production in the coastal and open ocean
• Linking biogeochemistry and microbial oceanography
• Influence of temperature and UV irradiation on microbial activity
• Linking prokaryotic community structure to prokaryotic activity
• Dark ocean prokaryotic activity under in situ pressure conditions
• Proteomics of marine prokaryotes

Expeditions

• Arctic Ocean – 2 research expeditions
• North Atlantic – 14 research expeditions
• North Sea – 4 research expeditions
• Mediterranean Sea – 4 research expeditions
• Pacific – 1 research expedition
• Southern Ocean – 1 research expedition
• Indian Ocean – 1 research expedition

Teaching

• Biogeochemistry of the Oceans – 3 ECTS
• Microbial Oceanography Course – 10 ECTS
• Current lectures and courses

Reviewer for

• Aquatic Microbial Ecology, Biogeosciences, Deep Sea Research, Environmental Microbiology, Estuarine Coastal and Shelf Science, FEMS Microbiology Letters, Journal Geophysical Research, Journal of Marine Systems, Journal of Plankton Research, Limnology and Oceanography, Limnology and Oceanography: Methods, Nature Geoscience, Nature Scientific Reports, Netherlands Journal of Sea Research, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, The ISME Journal