Academic education: Curriculum vitae
Born in Montreal, Canada 1965, School education in Munich, Germany
Oct. 1986 - Aug. 1989 Student of biology at the Eberhard Karls University in Tübingen, Germany.
Sep. 1989 - Aug. 1990 Exchange student at the Oregon State University, Corvallis, U.S.A. with 
Dr. B. Menge/ Dr. J. Lubchenco
Oct. 1990 Student at Christian-Albrechts University in Kiel, Germany at the Institut für Meereskunde.
Jan. - Nov. 1994 Master thesis work at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UCSD, La Jolla, CA., U.S.A. in the lab of Dr. F. Azam
Jan 1995 Graduation as master at the Institut für Meereskunde in Kiel, Germany.
Advisor Dr. J. Lenz
July 1995 - Jan. 1999
Ph.D. defense
Ph.D. student at the Institute for Polar Ecology in Kiel, Christian-Albrechts Universität zu Kiel
Advisor Dr. M Spindler
Feb. 1999 - Dec. 2001 Research Associate Postdoctoral  at the School of Oceanography, University of Washington, USA. Advisor Dr. J. Deming
Jan. 2002-current Oceanographer at the Polar Science Center at Applied Physics Laboratory, University of Washington, USA.