Biological diversity is messy. It walks, it crawls, it swims, it swoops, it buzzes. But extinction is silent, and it has no voice other than our own.

I have extensive training in molecular biology, i.e. all things genomics (eDNA, DNA, RNA, digitalPCR, sequencing, etc.), cell culture (primary cell culture, cancer-cell lines, cloning), and microscopy (dissection, light-microscopy, super-resolution). Skills  I have put to use during my PhD, where I focus on reconstructing marine biodiversity throughout deep time (e.g. >130 000 years ago) as well as the modern ocean through molecular ecology. To learn more about my PhD work, please visit agensi.eu.

This exciting interdisciplinary field can be summarised as palaeogenomics and palaeoceanography in the (sub)Arctic. Through my work, I emphasise the importance of understanding the impacts of warming oceans, shrinking sea ice, and reduced polar ice sheets on marine biodiversity. eDNA is powerful in that it can resolve many organisms not preserved in fossil records (e.g. plankton, algae, fungi, and more).  Many of these micro-sized organisms are the foundation of marine food webs and nutrient cycling. I look forward to developing in the field of paleogenomics and biodiversity monitoring via molecular ecology.