MARUM Research Academy
Setting Sail with MARUM
Join us as we welcome our newest colleagues aboard!
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(c) Prompt: MARUM Research Academy
Meet our latest additions to the MARUM crew as they introduce themselves and their previous research, as well as their plans and goals for their work at MARUM.
This event is a chance to explore the diverse expertise within our research centre, foster collaboration, and chart new paths together as we embark on future discoveries.
Next wave:
19 February 2026
09.30 hrs.
Pacific Ocean
18 March 2026
09.30 hrs.
Pacific Ocean
Crew members who onboarded in the past
18.12.2025
New crew:
| Group | Topic | ||
| Mark Schürch | professor | own group |
Geomorphology and Coastal Dynamics |
| Michelle Teune | postdoc |
Carbon Sequestration and Glycobiochemistry (Hehemann) |
Carbohydrate-active enzymes in the marine carbon cycle |
| Nahja Busse | doctoral researcher | Microbial Carbohydrate Interactions (Reintjes) |
Selfish bacteria limit glycan carbon sequestration (SFB TRR 420) |
| Paul Berndt | doctoral researcher | Petrology of the Ocean Crust (Bach) | Rock alteration and hydrothermal processes at Brothers Volcano |
18.11.2025
| Group | Topic | ||
| Alexander Alfano | doctoral researcher | Sedimentology |
Presence, Characteristics, and Dynamics of Estuarine, Tidal, and Marine Dunes in the German Bight |
| Francielle Nogueira de Lima Holtz Santos | doctoral researcher | Global Change Ecology (Agostino Merico, ZMT) |
Coral acclimation to global warming |
| Teena Rahangdale | doctoral researcher | Global Change Ecology (Agostino Merico, ZMT) |
Modelling N2 fixation by oceanic free-living heterotrophic bacteria |
30.10.2025
| Gastón Kreps | postdoc in the Sedimentology group |
| João Marcos Schuab |
doctoral researcher in the Marine Ecology group (Christian Wild, Faculty 2) |
| Renée Bernhard | doctoral researcher in the Marine Geotechnics group |
| Robin Rolland | postdoc in the Physical Oceanography group |
| Yanming Ruan | postdoc in the Organic Geochemistry group |
15.09.2025
| Ayesha Aslam | doctoral researcher in the Marine Robotics group |
| Ilya Bobrowskiy | own ERC starting grant “Deconvolving the early record of eukaryotic evolution” |
| Jinheum Park | postdoc in the Organic Geochemistry group |