• project “Gillnet modifications to reduce bycatch (PEARLNET_OP)“

 Reduction of negative impacts fishing gears have on the environment by:

• reducing bycatches in active and passive gears
• applying fish behavior patterns to improve gear selectivity
• reducing interactions between active gears and the sea floor 
• increasing the efficiency of active and passive gears
• estimating survival rates of discards and evaluating methods for improving those

since July 2021: Scientist at the Thünen Institute, project "Gillnet modifications to reduce bycatch (PEARLNET_OP)"

03/2019-01/2020: Scientist at the Thünen Institute

2017-2019: PostDoc at the Technical University of Denmark in Hirtshals (Denmark), project: COPE („Caught and released: an Overview of fishes’ sensitivity to being discarded as a tool to aid Pursuing Ecosystem-based management“)

2014-2017: PhD-studies at the Technical University of Denmark in Hirtshals (Denmark), PhD thesis: “Danish seine – Ecosystem effects of fishing“

2011-2013: Master studies “Marine biology” at the University of Rostock (Germany), Master thesis: “Reduction of bycatch in the Baltic Sea Fisheries“

2008-2011: Double-Degree Bachelor studies: “Ecology and Environment Protection” and „Biological Sciences” at the University of Rostock (Germany) and the Babeș-Bolyai University in Cluj-Napoca (Romania); Bachelor thesis: “Towing vs. Heaving - When does the fish escape?“