I graduated from the International Degree Course Industrial and Environmental Biology at the University of Applied Science Bremen in Germany before commencing a Master in Marine Biology at the University of Bremen. During my studies I had the privilege of spending extended study and research periods in Norway, Svalbard and Iceland. I worked primarily on marine ecology, fisheries and fish biology with a particular focus on adaptation and alternative evolutionary trajectories on species and ecosystem level in a changing climate. Within MARmaED I will investigate how marine fish deal with seasonality and the long polar night as they shift their distribution ranges towards higher latitudes due to a changing climate.
My supervisors are Christian Jørgensen and Øyvind Fiksen from the Theoretical Ecology Group at the University of Bergen.