since 03/2009	Research Scientist Max Planck Research Group for Marine Geochemistry ICBM, University of Oldenburg, Germany
05/2006-02/2009	PostDoc Scientist Section for Microbiology, Department of Biological Sciences University of Aarhus, Denmark
11/2005-04/2006	PostDoc Scientist SURF Group (Surface Waters - Research and Management) Eawag in Kastanienbaum, Switzerland
09/2005-10/2005	PostDoc Fellowship Department of Biogeochemistry Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology in Bremen, Germany
10/2003-12/2003	SOAS-Graduate Scholarship Department of Microbial Ecology University of Aarhus, Denmark
09/2000-12/2003	Ph.D. Student Department of Biogeochemistry Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology in Bremen, Germany
1999	Student Assistant Working Group of Marine Physics University of Oldenburg, Germany
1997-1998	Student Assistant Working Group of Organic Geochemistry ICBM, University of Oldenburg, Germany

University Education

2005	Ph.D. (Dr. rer. nat.) in Geosciences Thesis: “Composition and degradation of organic matter in sediments from the Peru-Chile upwelling region” University of Bremen, Germany
2000-2005	Ph.D. studies Department of Biogeochemistry Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology, Bremen, Germany
2000	Diploma in Marine Environmental Sciences Thesis: "Analysis of aromatic amino acids in natural seawater samples using fluorescence spectroscopy" University of Oldenburg, Germany
1995-2000	Studies of Marine Environmental Sciences ICBM, University of Oldenburg, Germany
1996	Vordiplom (Intermediate Diploma) in Chemistry
1993-1996	Studies of Chemistry University of Oldenburg, Germany

Research Grants

2011-2014	German Research Foundation (DFG, Germany) Priority Programme "Antarctic Research" "Dissolved organic matter in the Southern Ocean: links between molecules and microbes"
2009-2010	Carlsberg Foundation (Denmark) “Organic matter degradation in Lake Baikal – a biogeochemical approach”
2008-2009	Carlsberg Foundation (Denmark) “Organic matter degradation in Lake Baikal – a time series study”
2006-2008	Danish Natural Science Research Council (FNU, Denmark) “Fate of bacterial biomass in marine sediments”