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
Sabine Gollner is a deep-sea biologist working at the Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research (NIOZ), in the Netherlands. She obtained her PhD at the University of Vienna Austria in 2009, and continued her deep-sea studies during a Humboldt Post-doctoral fellow at the Senckenberg Research Institute in Germany. Her research interests include the ecology of … Continued
Salvador Manuel Espada-Hinojosa is currently finishing his PhD on symbiosis, the cooperation between different living things, at the University of Vienna, Austria. He obtained a Master in Marine Sciences and another Master in Integrated Coastal Zone Management, both from the University of Cádiz, Spain. He is a partner in a family fried chicken business in … Continued
Celeste Sánchez-Noguera is a marine biologist with a background in coral reef ecology and a Master degree in Integrated Coastal Management (Universidad de Costa Rica). During her Ph.D. (Universität Hamburg) she started to study the carbonate chemistry system in Costa Rica and its interaction with local organisms and coastal ecosystems. Currently, she is a researcher … Continued
Biajani Gonzalez is a recent graduate of a BS in electrical engineering from the University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez Campus, and a prospective graduate candidate for physical oceanography. He works as a researcher at the Bio-optical Oceanography laboratory at Isla Magueyes, Lajas Puerto Rico. Having an affinity for applied science, he is interested in emerging … Continued
André Luiz de Oliveira currently holds a PostDoc Researcher position at the Max-Planck-Institute for Marine Microbiology in Bremen (Germany). André has experience with next-generation sequencing, bioinformatics, and comparative “omics”. His current research focuses of how interactions between metazoan hosts and their persistent symbiotic microorganisms drive body plan diversification and animal evolution. On his first cruise, … Continued
Avery Fulford is a PhD student in the MIT–Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) Joint Program. She earned a Bachelor’s degree in Biology from Duke University in 2021 and worked at NASA Goddard before entering the Joint Program. Avery is interested in the distribution and dispersal of microorganisms in extreme environments, particularly those involved in the … Continued
