Baltic Gender is an EU-funded project that brings together eight scientific institutions in five countries to work on reducing gender inequalities in Marine Science and Technology More info
What is the nature of your work? Katja Dierking: I am a staff scientist (tenured faculty member) at the Zoological institute at Kiel University. I am a molecular biologist and study host-microbe interactions in the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans. My work involves science, teaching, and administration. Jan Dierking: I am a scientist (relying on 3rd party […]
Meet Anu Reinart, a director of Estonian Space Research and Technology Center, Tartu Observatory. Her activities include governance of the basic research in the field of astronomy, also collaboration with industry for development of the applications in remote sensing and technology of satellites. The institute is also responsible for the University of Tartu study program […]
What is the nature of your work? I’m a senior researcher at the Marine Research Institute, Klaipeda University. My main interests are wave dynamics and their impact on the sandy coast. Career as a researcher. I got my first degree in physics. The undergraduate work on standing waves in semiconductors has evolved into the study […]
Meet Heike Dugge, the woman who works as the Chief Officer on board the German Research Ship METEOR What inspire you to pursue a career in marine technologies? In the mid 90‘ I started my studies of civil engineering at the University of Rostock and at the same time I started working on sailing ships. […]
What is the nature of your work? I am a marine biologist, a benthologist and the centre of my research area is the northern communities, plants, animals, and everything connected with them in marine environments. Since in nature everything is interconnected, I have had the change to study sediments, chemistry, plankton communities and also fish. […]
Dr. Natalie Loick Wilde is head of the research group Aquatic Food Webs at the Leibniz Institute for Baltic Sea Research Warnemünde in Rostock (tenure-track). Her group uses amino acid nitrogen stable isotope approaches to elucidate how food webs regulate the matter turnover in aquatic systems. What inspire you to pursue a career in marine […]
Your career. Magister degree; a research project in media education (2 years); own business; PhD-grant, combined with teaching job in Kiel University of Applied Sciences; Professorship at Kiel University of Applied Sciences. Please describe briefly your family commitments. I have 2 children (11 and 8 years old). They are educated by me and assisted by […]
Dr. Laura Uusitalo works as a Head of Unit and Senior Research Scientist at the Finnish Environment Institute. She’s interested in marine food webs and modern intelligent data analysis methods. Dr. Laura Uusitalo. Photo: Jari Juslin What did inspire you to pursue a career in marine sciences/technologies? When I was a teenager, I wanted, for […]
What is the nature of your work? I am a marine biologist and phytoplankton ecologist doing independent research at the Finnish Environment Institute. As a Senior Research Scientist, I lead a research group and manage and coordinate different research projects. Together with interns, Master’s and PhD students, post-docs and project scientists I perform experiments and […]
Meet Cathi Hebold, the woman who works as an electronic engineer on the German research vessel METEOR. What inspired you to pursue a career in marine sciences/technologies? When working on my bachelor’s thesis, I found out that electronics engineers also worked on German research vessels. As my father and husband are also sailors, I had […]