Expertise and research interests

Interactions of Pro- and Eukaryotes in biofilms of water treatment systems

Application of aquatic fungi in bioremediation

Microbial ecology of natural and engineered inland waters

High-throughput sequencing applications

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Educational background

• since 2018  Head of the Microbial Systems group at the Chair of Urban Water Systems Engineering

• 2015-2017  Marie Skłodowska-Curie PostDoc, University of Gothenburg, Sweden

• 2012-2015  PostDoc, Berlin Center for Genomics in Biodiversity Research (BeGenDiv)/Leibniz-IGB

• 2008-2012  Doctoral Student, Leibniz-Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries, Berlin (Leibniz-IGB); Dissertation at the University of Potsdam

• 2001-2007  Studies of general biology, Universität Kassel