Verbundforschung / Drittmittelprojekte

Third party funded research in the "Plankton Menace" (since 2019)

2026 - 2029 RTG 2530 second funding phase (DFG), Biota-mediated effects on Carbon cycling in Estuaries, Spokesperson, PI on subproject B6 "The effect of warming on phytoplankton-microzooplankton interactions in the Elbe Estuary and underlying physiological processes", and co-PI on several other subprojects

2026 - 2029 CLICCS II (DFG), Climate, Climatic Change, and Society, PI on subproject “Decarbonisation and rapid evolution in ubiquitous phytoplankton” (M5D)

2025 -2028: Rapid Adaptive Change (LFF), PI on subproject "The bog of eternal stench? Thermal evolution in bogland plankton communities"

2023 - 2026: GreenHAB (BMBF now BMFTR), Risks of climate change-driven Harmful Algal Blooms in Greenland waters - indicators, tipping points and impacts on local ecosystem functioning and services, PI on subproject "Physiological Tolerance and Adaptive Evolution of Harmfull Algae Bloom forming species"

2022-2026: 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 RTF 2530: Biota-mediated effects on Carbon cycling in Estuaries, PI on subproject B1 'Ecological plasticity of aquatic primary producers' and C1 "The hidden garden: The Elbe Estuary's Microphytonbethos"

2022-2026: 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 – 2026 : DFG within the framework of the German Excellence Cluster “Climate, Climatic Change, and Society (CliCCS)" (Subproject A5 – Carbon Cycling In The Land-Ocean Transition Zone)

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)