September 2015 - present: Junior group leader at the Institute for Microbiology, University of Greifswald.
March 2014 - May 2016: Postdoctoral researcher at the WasserCluster Lunz on the Austrian Research Foundation project "MesoSperse" (Dr. Robert Ptacnik).
July 2013 - March 2014: Parental leave
June 2011 – August 2015: Postdoctoral fellow at the University of Vienna. Funded by EU FP7 Marie Curie Actions individual fellowship: Priming effect in an aquatic ecosystem: Stream biofilms as hotspots for carbon cycling (PRIMA) and Austrian Research Foundation START project (Professor Tom Battin).
Aug. 2006 - March 2011: PhD student at the University of Bergen, Norway.
Jan. 2006 - June 2006: Part-time employment in the public outreach section at the Museums of Natural History and the Botanical Garden, University of Oslo, Norway.
Nov. 2003 - Dec. 2005: Employment as research assistant at the Department of Botany, Stockholm University, Sweden.
June 2002 - Dec. 2005: Part-time employment as a guide in the Bergius Botanical Garden, Stockholm, Sweden.
Summers 1998 and 1999: Employment as research assistant at the Department of Chemistry, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Uppsala, Sweden.
Aug. 2006 – Mar. 2011: PhD studies at the University of Bergen, Norway. Title of thesis: Bacterial biofilms on the kelp Laminaria hyperborea. Date of graduation: 23 March 2011.
Jan. 2006 - Aug. 2006: Complementary studies in Biology (Seaweed ecology and evolution) and Physical Geography at the University of Oslo, Norway.
Oct. 2002 - Oct. 2003: Graduate studies in Plant Physiology at Stockholm University, Sweden. Title of Master thesis: Two-dimensional electrophoresis of Laminaria digitata
Aug. 1998 - Oct. 2002: Undergraduate studies in Biology at Stockholm University, Sweden
Aug. 1995 – Jun. 1998: High school level studies at Södra Latins Gymnasium, Stockholm with special emphasis on Natural Sciences and Visual Arts.
Lab and field tutoring: Ordination and Gradient Analysis, Bacterial genetics, Seaweed floristics, Introductory Course in Marine Biology, Experimental design and statistics, Environmental microbiology and microbiome research
Guest lectures: Arctic Microbiology (UNIS Svalbard, check out video featuring yours truly at 4:58), Marine Biotechnology, Taxonomy Phylogeny and Biodiversity of Microorganisms, Molecular Physiology of Microorganisms.
Mentored >10 BSc, 5 MSc students, co-supervision of 2 PhD students.
Research grant “SeaStore: Microbiome-informed seagrass restoration” (Küstenmeerforschung, BMBF, 03F0859C)
2018-2021: Individual research grant “The impact of mixotrophic bacterivory on microbial food webs in changing lake ecosystems (LakeMix)”, German Science Foundation (DFG, BE 6194/1-1)
2013-2014: “Back-to-Research-Grant” awarded by the Faculty of Life Sciences at the University of Vienna.
2011 - 2013: Marie Curie Actions Individual Fellowship “Priming effect in an aquatic ecosystem: Stream biofilms as hotspots for carbon cycling (PRIMA)” (IEF, EU, FP7)
2006 - 2010: Industrial collaboration supporting my PhD project: “Bacterial biofilms on kelp”. FMC Biopolymer.
2008: Scholarship from the fund "Egil og Sunniva Baardseths legat" erected in the memory of Norwegian seaweed researcher Egil Baardseth.
2007: Scholarship from the fund "Bergen Myrdyrkingsforenings fond" awarded by University of Bergen.
2007: Scholarship from the fund "Joachim Frieles legat"awarded by University of Bergen.
- R programming environment for statistics (Packages vegan, dada2, phyloseq, DESeq2, edgeR, igraph etc.)
- Various bioinformatic tools (USEARCH, Qiime, mothur, SortMeRNA, MEGAN, MG-RAST, CytoScape etc.)
- Linux/MacOS command line and shell scripting.
- High throughput sequencing and sequence analysis (Illumina MiSeq, Ion Torrent and 454 Pyrosequencing platforms)
- General molecular biology skills (DNA extraction, PCR, cloning etc)
- Stable Isotope labeling and analysis techniques
- Microcosm and mesocosm design and operation (various setups)
- Microbial process measurements (bacterial production, oxygen consumption, respiration etc.)
- Microscopic analysis (Fluorescence in situHybridization, Confocal Laser Scanning Microscopy etc.)
- Bacterial and algal cultivation
Swedish: Native
English: Fluent spoken and written
Norwegian: Fluent spoken and advanced writing skills (bokmål)
German: Conversational spoken and basic writing skills