Jan Steger is a postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Palaeontology at the University of Vienna, Austria. He obtained his MSc in marine biology from the University of Bremen, Germany, and a PhD in Earth Sciences from the University of Vienna. His main interests are the biodiversity, distributional patterns, and functional ecology of marine benthic … Continued
Stefan Sievert is an Associate Scientist in the Biology Department at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI). He is a microbial oceanographer who studies the composition, diversity, and function of microbial communities, with the objective of understanding the relationship between microorganisms and their role in the ocean’s biogeochemical cycles. Dr. Sievert is particularly interested in … Continued
Philipp Pröts is an evolutionary morphologist and biologist. He received his BSc. and MSc. from University of Vienna. During his Master’s study he worked with marine bryozoans and after graduating he started his PhD by joining the “shallow waters symbiosis” lab of Jörg Ott at the University of Vienna. Philipp currently works on the morphology … Continued
Alessandro Messora is a Marine Biology MSc student at the University of Groningen, with a BS in Biological Sciences from the University of Milan Bicocca. Despite growing up in a landlocked region of Italy at the feet of the Alps, his passion for the marine environment led him to work in different research centers throughout … Continued
Tihomir Makovec is a senior technical associate and head of diving unit at the Marine Biology Station Piran, National Institute of Biology, Slovenia. He is also a diving instructor, underwater photographer and innovator. In more than 30 years of experience in the marine biology and oceanography field work, he substantially contributed to the research of … Continued
Nicole Krause has a bachelor’s degree in biological sciences from Durham University, in the United Kingdom. She also has a master’s degree in molecular microbiology, immunobiology and microbial ecology from the University of Vienna, in Austria. Currently, she is a PhD student at the University of Vienna working on environmental cell biology and symbiosis. Nicole … Continued
Ingrid Kolar has a Bachelor of Science in Biology from the University of Vienna. Because she has been working as a technical assistant during her studies and still does, she has over 30 years of experience in the lab. Half of the time she worked for Monika Bright and went twice on cruises to the … Continued
Clarissa Karthäuser is a postdoctoral scholar at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, where she studies how micro-organisms form communities and transform molecules while they sit together on small particles. She has a background in Biology and Biological Oceanography, which she studied at Kiel University and Geomar, Germany. During her PhD project at the Max Planck Institute … Continued
Ian Hughes is a PhD Candidate in the Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology at Harvard University. His research interests focus on the physiology and evolution of animal-microbe symbioses, with an emphasis on mollusks. He particularly enjoys developing and testing new technology and incubation systems for studying animals and microbes in marine environments. When he’s … Continued
Stéphane Hourdez is a researcher at the Centre National pour la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), France. He is based at the Banyuls Oceanographic Observatory in Southern France. He has received his PhD in 2000 from the University Pierre and Marie Curie in Paris, France. After a 3-year post-doctoral stay at the Pennsylvania State University (USA), he … Continued
