Jacob Winnikoff is a NASA Postdoctoral Fellow in the Girguis Lab at Harvard University. He received a B.S. in Biochemistry and Biophysics from Stanford University in 2016 and a Ph.D. in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology from UC Santa Cruz in 2022. Jacob’s graduate research focused on biochemical adaptation to pressure in deep-sea comb jellies and … Continued
Jes Vollertsen is Professor of Environmental Engineering at Aalborg University, Denmark. His background is biological and chemical processes and pollutants in urban technical waters. He and his microplastic research group focus on analytical methods for quantification with the goal to contribute to trustworthy, fast, and affordable methods to quantify microplastics in the environment. The work … Continued
Asbjørn Haaning Nielsen is an associate professor of environmental engineering within the Urban Water research group at the Department of the Built Environment, Aalborg University, Denmark. His primary research focus is on environmental process engineering of the urban wastewater collection and treatment and pollution related to urban and highway stormwater runoff. Emphasis is on obtaining … Continued
Jeanette Lykkemark is a PhD candidate in the field of environmental science and a chemical engineer, specializing in quantification using pyrolysis gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (GC-MS). Her research is conducted at the Department of the Built Environment, Aalborg University in Denmark. Her primary focus is developing novel methods for quantifying environmental pollutants, particularly in complex matrices, … Continued
Alvise Vianello is an associate professor at the Department of the Built Environment, Aalborg University, Denmark. His background is in analytical chemistry, and he works to develop and improve reliable and trustworthy analytical methods for quantifying microplastics in the environment. His research focuses on different matrices, such as wastewater, stormwater ponds, soils, sediments, freshwaters, marine … Continued
Laura is a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of the Built Environment at Aalborg University (BUILD-AAU), Denmark. During her PhD at the Institute of Environmental Science and Technology (ICTA-UAB) in Barcelona, she investigated the occurrence, methods, and fate of microplastics in transitional systems of the Mediterranean Sea. These areas between land and marine environments play … Continued
Fanny Sieler is currently finishing her Master’s programme in Biology at the University of Hamburg. Previously, she analysed deep-sea meiofaunal communities from a long-term-observatory at the Alfred-Wegener-Institute (AWI) Bremerhaven and further broadened these skills at the Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research (NIOZ). Recently, Fanny has been researching Aegisthid Copepods from samples taken during the … Continued
Max Hooper Schneider (b. 1982, Los Angeles, CA) received his Master’s degree in Landscape Architecture from Harvard’s Graduate School of Design (2011). In addition, he received undergraduate degrees in urban design and biology from New York University and did further studies in marine biology and entomology at The University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa and Santa … Continued
Dr. Gustavo A. Ramírez is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Biological Sciences at the California State University, Los Angeles where he leads a bioinformatics and microbial ecology research group. Gustavo holds a B.S. in Microbiology from the California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, and a Ph.D. in Biological Oceanography from the University of Southern … Continued
Monika Bright is a Professor at the University of Vienna, Austria, and is appointed Vice Head of the Department of Functional and Evolutionary Ecology at the Faculty of Life Sciences. Monika received her Ph.D. in zoology and paleontology at the University of Vienna in 1992 and her habilitation in marine biology and zoology in 2001. … Continued
