Externally Funded Projects

2022-2025: ECOPHYCA (DFG) - From Ecology To Physiology: Ecology of phytoplankton-virus ,interactions with emphasis on their effect on Carbon Acquisition

2022-2025:  ELVIRA (ANR/DFG ) - Ecogenomics of small Phytoplankton & large Virus Interactions ,in response to changing salinity and phosphate concentrations, with Gwenael Piganeau at Banyuls Observatory

2020-2026: DFG graduate college: Biota-mediated effects on Carbon cycling in Estuaries, PI on subproject B1 'Ecological plasticity of aquatic primary producers'

2021-2024: DFG CyaREMo Cyanobacteria under climate change: looking into the past to predict the future through integration of resurrection ecology, experimental evolution and ecosystem modelling approach

2019-2022 Experimental evolution and retrotransposon-mediated genetic engineering of the coral endosymbiont alga Symbiodinium (Collaboration with Jit Ern Chen at Sunway University and Christopher J Howe at the University of Cambridge)

2019 – 2026 DFG-project within the framework of the German Excellence Cluster “Climate, Climatic Change, and Society (CliCCS)" (Subproject A5 – Carbon Cycling In The Land-Ocean Transition Zone)