Professional Background
Since Dec 2023 Prof. in Marine Ecology at Åbo Akademi University
Since Aug 2023 Head of Subject of Environmental and Marine Biology at Åbo Akademi University
Since Jun 2022 Docent in Marine Stress Ecology at Åbo Akademi University
Oct 2019 – Nov 2023 Associate Prof. (tenure track) of Marine Biology at the Subject of Environmental and Marine Biology at the Faculty of Science and Engineering at Åbo Akademi University (Parental leave: Jan – Mar 2021)
Oct 2017 – Sep 2019 Senior Researcher at GEOMAR – Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel (Parental leave: May – Oct 2018)
Oct 2014 – Sep 2017 Helmholtz Postdoc at GEOMAR, own grant: Assessing the importance of biological buffering of environmental stress with decreasing temporal and spatial scales
Nov 2013 – Aug 2014 Postdoc at the Department of Chemistry and Molecular Biology, Gothenburg University, Sweden: EU collaborative project LEAF on Low Emission AntiFouling coatings based on the novel discovered post settlement penetration triggered antifouling
Nov 2012 – Oct 2013 Postdoc fellowship at the Department of Biological & Environmental Sciences, Gothenburg University, own grant: Interactive impacts of climate change on interactions between ecologically important species within the Baltic Sea
Apr 2008 – Aug 2012 PhD candidate at the GEOMAR Kiel: Stress ecology in times of global change – single and combined effects of ocean acidification, temperature and food availability on different life stages of the barnacle Amphibalanus improvisus; Mentor: Prof Dr. M. Wahl
Academic Achievements
Dec 2023 – full Prof. in Marine Ecology at Åbo Akademi University
Jun 2022 – Title of Docent in Marine Stress Ecology, awarded by Åbo Akademi University, Turku, Finland
Oct 2019 – Associate Prof. of Marine Biology, Åbo Akademi University, Turku, Finland
Jun 2012 – Doctor of Science (magna cum laude) Kiel University, Germany
PhD at the GEOMAR Kiel, Germany on „Stress ecology in times of global change – single and combined effects of ocean acidification, temperature and food availability on different life stages of the barnacle Amphibalanus improvisus“ (Apr 2008 – Jul 2012)
Nov 2007 – Diploma in Biology (very good), Rostock University, Germany
Diploma Thesis within the GAME-Project at the IFM-GEOMAR in Kiel and the Universidad Católica del Norte in Coquimbo, Chile on “The effects of light stress on the capacity of macroalgae to defend themselves against grazing and fouling” (scholarship provided by the STIFTUNG-MERKATOR; Oct 2006 – Nov 2007)