Looking forward to advancing marine ecological knowledge with the help of local communities and divers from Costa Brava hashtag#Catalunya.

Stay tuned for updates! 🌍💙

#MarineEcology #Biodiversity #CitizenScience #SpeciesDistributionModels #MediterraneanSea #SmallResearchGrant #BES #Ecology

Thank you so much, this is indeed an extremely proud #PhDSupervisor moment.

This is a proud #PhDSupervisor moment 😁, great work and fingers crossed for a smooth review process.

I confess I've learned more about the minute details of mass spectrometry and gas chromatography now than I did in the past 11 years since I started applying the method. It's definitely more or less fun to set-up my own lab. #NewPI #ERCStG

The interview will be broadcasted on 🇩🇪 television at 18:45h. BTW, the journalist was fascinated that he interviewed a scientist in 🇳🇱, while he was searching for a scientist in 🇩🇪. 😅 4/4

He didn't pick up his phone, but called me back at 15:05 and we spoke for about 5 min. Then he told me he would set-up a TEAMS meeting at 15:30h to record the interview. Hence, I had 20 min to find a brush and be presentable on TV, clean-up the wall in my office, and prepare for the interview. 3/n

After circulating among press department and several scientists at that institute and #NIOZ, the request reaches me at about 14:35h while I'm in a meeting with my PhD student. Hence, I check the e-mail at 14:50h and call the journalist who sent the request. 2/n

Apparently I told her that I lost one of the benthic incubation chambers at sea in 2015 (and again in 2022, though that's fortunately not part of her book 😅).

Did I mention that I forgot that I promised my MSc student to read the first chapter of her report until next week. 🫣 4/4 #WomeninSTEM #NewPI #ERCStGrant

In fact this equipment has to be ordered + built prior to the actual start of my project, while I'm also dealing with admin to have a working contract myself at @marumunibremen.bsky.social and to hire my team (1 PhD student, 1 PostDoc). Life of a #NewPI, while I'm still working on another project🫣.

Only hours later, a lot of e-mails ended in my postbox that request timely to urgent action so that I can start my #ERCStG project SPYCLING in time on 1st February 2026. In this context, my favorite term is 'depreciation period' which is 5 years for all the equipment I will purchase. 2/n