My research focuses on how abiotic factors such as temperature and biotic stressors, including harmful algal toxins, shape the ecophysiology of fish across their life cycle. Using experimental approaches including respirometry and behavioural assays, I investigate how these stressors affect metabolic performance, behaviour, and physiological limits under environmental change. By integrating these individual-level responses within an upscaling framework, metabolic constraints are linked to population and community dynamics, including biomass production, mortality risk, and extreme events such as fish kills. Ultimately, I aim to elucidate how climate-driven changes and algal blooms influence trophic interactions and carbon cycling in estuarine ecosystems.

M.Sc. Biologie (2022-2026) Universität Hamburg, Germany

Title: Three-spined Stickleback (Gasterosteus aculeatus) physiological and behavioural response to elevated temperatures and low oxygen levels

Supervisors: Jun.-Prof. Dr. Flemming Dahlke, Dr. Arne Malzahn

B.Sc. Biologie (2018-2022) Universität Hamburg, Germany

Title: Das Fraßverhalten von Rindern, Schafen und Ziegen und deren Einfluss auf die Vegetation des Höltigbaums

Supervisors: Dr. Caroline Stolter, Dr. Ute Schmiedel

Ph.D. (2026-present) Universität Hamburg, Germany

Preliminary title: “Biotic and abiotic constraints on the metabolism & life cycle of fish”

Supervisors: Jun.-Prof.Dr. Flemming Dahlke, Dr. Arne Malzahn

My research project investigates how temperature and algal toxins influence the physiology, metabolism, and behaviour of the model species, the three-spined stickleback (Gasterosteus aculeatus), across its life cycle, and how these effects scale up to shape carbon cycling in estuarine ecosystems.

My current project is conducted under the Research Training Group 2530 “Biota-mediated effects on Carbon cycling in Estuaries”