• Benthic microbial ecology and biogeography
• Ecosystem impacts of fisheries and marine protected areas (MPAs)
• Microbial processes in holobionts and benthic ecosystems
• Carbon sequestration and organic matter degradation

• Integration of various datasets for interdisciplinary analyses
• Evaluation of bottom trawling effects on benthic (micro)biota
• Monitoring of MPAs in the North Sea

• 2025-present: Postdoc researcher at the Thünen Institute for Sea Fisheries
• 2020-2025: Postdoc researcher at the institute for Chemistry and Biology of the Marine environment (ICBM), Carl-von-Ossietzky University Oldenburg
• 2017-2020: PhD student at GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel
• 2016-2017: Researcher at the Westerdijk Fungal biodiversity Institute (the Netherlands)
• 2013-2016: MSc Biological Sciences University of Amsterdam (the Netherlands)
• 2009-2012: BSc Biology, Utrecht University (the Netherlands)

List of publications (link to Google Scholar)