News

26th March 2024

We are excited for Claudia Lassen to start as a PhD student. Claudia will work on the plasticity and evolvability of phytoplankton key-ecological traits to environmental change. We look forward to many exciting experiments!

29th January 2024

PhD position available in Daphnia adaptation through space and time. We are looking for a highly motivated student to join our team in Copenhagen, interested in working experimentally with Daphnia. In order to be eligible you need to hold a Master degree. Questions? Please do not hesitate to reach out.

We look forward to YOU joining our team!

Apply here!

23rd January 2024

I have joined the editorial board of the international journal Limnologica, which is published in cooperation with the German Limnological Society. Limnologica publishes peer-reviewed articles addressing biological, physical and chemical aspects of freshwater ecosystems and adjacent habitats.

I look forward to serving the community in my new role.

15th January 2024

This paper is for everyone who always wondered: "What is Chlamydomonas made of?” We grew Chlamydomonas in chemostats under different resource limitations and growth rates and investigated its elemental and macromolecular plasticity. Especially under low light conditions, Chlamydomonas alters its macromolecular composition. Also, differences are most pronounced at slow growth and partially disappears at fast growth. It appears that there are many ways to grow slow which eventually converge to only one way of growing fast. Especially the trade-off between storing C in lipids or carbohydrates is interesting.

Give it a read!

13th October 2023

PhD position available in evolutionary ecology of Phytoplankton. We are looking for a highly motivated student to join our team in Copenhagen, interested in working experimentally with phytoplankton. In order to be eligible you need to hold a Master degree. Questions? Please do not hesitate to reach out.

We look forward to YOU joining our team!

Apply here!

21st September 2023

For my work on Rapid Evolution, I received the Schwoerbel-Benndorf Young Talent Award 2023 from the German Limnological Society. It is a great honour to take care of Clara, the trophy, for a year. I will make sure, that she has a great time in Denmark.

31st August 2023

Our synthesis paper was shortlisted as one of the top 5 finalists for the Ecology Letters Early Career Researcher Award 2022! Congratulations to the winning paper and the other shortlisted contributions.

1st August 2023

I am thrilled to announce that I will start as a tenure-track Assistant Professor for Freshwater Ecology at the University of Copenhagen in October.

I look forward to joining a great team of faculty at the Freshwater Section and to establish my own research group in such a renown place. My group will work on evolutionary ecology of planktonic organisms in lake ecosystems. I hope that together, we can work towards understanding emerging anthropogenic threats to freshwater organisms, explore their adaptive potential and identify the consequences for their ecology.

Stay tuned for some exciting job posting here soon!