ORCID: 0000-0001-6106-7880

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Research Interest:

• Phytoplankton physiology
• Marine N₂-fixing cyanobacteria
• Interaction of photosynthesis and N₂ fixation
• Carbon concentrating mechanisms
• Single-cell techniques
• Chemical microenvironments
• Ocean acidification effects

CV:

• Since 2018: Postdoc/Associate Scientist at Centre Algatech, Institute of Microbiology of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Trebon, Czech Republic
• 2016 – 2018: Postdoctoral Fellow at Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology (MPI-MM), Bremen, Germany
• 2014 – 2016: Postdoctoral Fellow at Department of Marine Sciences, University of Gothenburg, Sweden
• 2014: Visiting Researcher at Daniel K. Inoye Centre for Microbial Oceanography: Reseach and Education (CMORE), Honolulu, HI, USA
• 2010 – 2014: PhD at Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Sciences (AWI), Bremerhaven, Germany
• 2012: Research visit at Department of Geosciences, Princeton University, NJ, USA
• 2004 – 2010: Studies of Biology (Diplom Biologie) at University of Bremen, Germany

Current Projects:

• How to cope with a fluctuating environment: Cell-to-cell heterogeneity versus acclimation in cyanobacteria (GACR project, 2024-2026)
• Single-cell regulation of N2 fixation and photosynthesis in filamentous cyanobacteria (Junior GACR project)
• Microenvironments of Trichodesmium colonies
• Adaptation strategies to iron limitation across different phytoplankton taxa