Research Experience
01/2022 - present: Postdoctoral Guest Researcher
Utrecht University, Department of Earth Sciences, Division of Geochemistry (The Netherlands)
01/2022 - present: Postdoctoral Researcher/ Veni Laureate
NIOZ - Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research, Department of Ocean Systems (The Netherlands)
09/2019 - 01/2022: Postdoctoral Guest Researcher/ Rubicon Research Fellow
Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology, HGF MPG Joint Research Group for Deep-Sea Ecology and Technology (Germany)
09/2019 - 01/2022: Postdoctoral Researcher/ Rubicon Research Fellow
Utrecht University, Department of Earth Sciences, Division of Geochemistry (The Netherlands)
07/2019 - 09/2019: Postdoctoral Researcher
NIOZ – Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research, Department of Ocean Sciences (The Netherlands)
12/2018 - 06/2019: Postdoctoral Researcher
Ghent University, Marine Biology Research Group (Belgium)
08/2018 - 12/2012: Postdoctoral Researcher
NIOZ – Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research, Department of Ocean Sciences (The Netherlands)
02/2014 - 07/2018: Ph.D. Candidate
NIOZ – Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research, Department of Estuarine and Delta Systems (The Netherlands)
Education
02/2014 - 10/2018: PhD in Marine Sciences
NIOZ - Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research, Department of Estuarine and Delta Systems (The Netherlands); Ghent University, Faculty of Sciences, Marine Biology Research Group (Belgium)
Doctoral thesis: Benthic ecosystem response to polymetallic nodule extraction in the deep sea
09/2016 - 02/2019: M.Sc. in Statistical Data Analysis
Ghent University (Belgium)
Thesis: Deciphering the DOC composition in the Arctic Ocean using parallel factor analysis
09/2011 - 02/2014: M.Sc. in Biology
Aarhus University (Denmark)
Thesis: Degradation of dissolved organic matter in the Arctic deep sea
09/2009 - 07/2010: Erasmus Exchange Student in Biology
University of Oviedo (Spain)
10/2008 - 09/2011: B.Sc. in Biology
University of Bremen (Germany)
Thesis: Diversity of dehalogenating bacteria in marine sediments
Fellowships and Awards
2019: Rubicon Research Fellowship from the Dutch Research Council (NWO) to conduct 2 years of postdoctoral research at the HGF MPG Joint Research Group for Deep-Sea Ecology and Technology, Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology (Germany)
Project: Gold rush in the deep sea: Impacts of deep-sea mining induced sediment plumes on the abyssal ecosystem
2019: Paul van Oye-Price 2019 from the Royal Flemish Academy of Belgium for Science and the Arts (KVAB, Belgium) for the best doctoral thesis in all fields of hydrobiology at all Flemish-speaking Belgian universities in 2017 and 2018.