| since 2003 |
Senior Scientist at the Institute of Soil Science of the University of Hamburg in the working group of Prof. Dr. Eva-Maria Pfeiffer |
| 2000 - 2003 |
Scientific Assistant in the Board of Directors of the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research, Bremerhaven |
| 1999 |
Ph.D. (Dr. rer. nat.) at the University of Bremen, department Geosciences
Title of Ph.D. thesis: Isolation and characterization of psychrophilic sulfate-reducing bacteria from permanently cold Arctic sediments |
| 1995 - 2000 |
Research associate in the biogeochemistry group of Prof. B. B. Jørgensen at the Max Planck Institute for marine Microbiology, Bremen |
| 1994 |
Master of Science in Biology (Diploma), University of Hamburg |
