As technical assistant for laboratory automation I mainly take care of the departments instruments for liquid handling, microarrays and laser scanning microscopy, inculding software and hardware development for corresponding applications.

>> Further details on laboratory automation, CLSM and automated microscopy.

Curriculum Vitae

born
10.12.1974	Born in Northeim, Germany.
education
1981 - 1991	Education at the primary and secondary school Gieboldehausen, Germany.
training
1991 - 1996	Job training as electrician at the Max Planck Institute for Aeronomy Katlenburg-Lindau, Germany.
civilian service
1995 - 1996	Civilian service at the state hospital 'Niedersächsiches Landeskrankenhaus' Göttingen, Germany.
education
1996 - 1997	Advanced education at the technical secondary school Northeim, Germany.
study
1997 - 2001 __________ 2001	Study of electrical engineering in the field of automation and drive systems at the university of applied sciences 'Hochschule Harz' Wernigerode, Germany. Diplomathesis at the Thyssen Krupp Presta AG, Liechtenstein entitled: 'Conceptual develompment of a driving simulator for electric power assisted steering systems in cars'
job
since 2001	Technical assistant for laboratory automation at the Max Planck Institut for Marine Microbiology Bremen, Germany.

Expeditions

RV Maria S. Merian
09.2006 - 10.2006	Cruise MSM03/1 (VISION) from Reykjavik to Lisbon - Microbial communities of the North Atlantic Ocean - Field of duty: Tech. support for CTD & water sampler
RV Meteor
05.2008 - 06.2008	Cruise M76/2 from Walvis Bay to Walvis Bay - Process studies in the eastern South Atlantic - Field of duty: Tech. support for pumpcast CTD
RV Meteor
12.2008 - 01.2009	Cruise M77/3 from Guayaquil to Callao - Climate- Biogeochemistry interactions in the tropical ocean of the SE-American oxygen minimum zone - Field of duty: Tech. support for pumpcast CTD
RRS Discovery
08.2011 – 09.2011	Cruise D369 (LINK) from Tenerife to Tenerife - The influence of advection and sedimentation on linking microbial phosphorus, carbon and nitrogen cycling in the North Atlantic subtropical gyre - Field of duty: Tech. support for free-fall pumpcast CTD