Research Interests

- diversity and composition of marine bacterioplankton in contrasting waters; special interest in the Namibian upwelling system and the oligotrophic Atlantic Ocean

- Method development in the field of molecular ecology with special focus on fluorescence in situ hybridisation and flow cytometry and sorting

- Comparative genomics of the photoheterotrophic members of the gammaproteobacterial clade NOR5/OM60.