• Experimentelle Ökologie, Benthosökologie
• Nahrungsökologie von Schlangensternen (Ophiuroidea, Echinodermata)
• Funktionelle Morphologie von Schlangensternzähnen (REM, µCT, 3D Rekonstruktion)
• Datenauswertung- und Analysen in R

• Projektmanagement und Wissenschaftskommunikation im UFOTriNet-Projekt

• seit 2019: Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin am Thünen-Institut für Seefischerei in Bremerhaven.
• 2014-2019: Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin an der Universität Bremen: in der Graduiertenschule am Zentrum für Marine Umweltwissenschaften (GLOMAR/ MARUM) und in der AG Marine Zoologie.
• 2010-2014: Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin bei Avitec-Research GbR in Osterholz-Scharmbeck. Gutachterbüro, Fokus: Effekte von Offshore Windkraftanlagen auf Zugvögel und Fernerkundungsmethoden zur Erfassung des Vogelzugs.
• 2009: Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin an der Biologischen Anstalt Helgoland (BAH) in der Stiftung Alfred-Wegener-Institut, Helmholtz-Zentrum für Polar- und Meeresforschung (AWI).
• 2005-2009: Promotion an der Freien Universität Berlin, Durchführung an der BAH (AWI) und der Scottish Association for Marine Science (SAMS), Scotland, U.K. Thema: Mechanisms of a successful immigration from northeast Asia: population dynamics, life history traits and interspecific interactions in the caprellid amphipod Caprella mutica Schurin, 1935 (Crustacea, Amphipoda) in European coastal waters.
• 1997-2004: Studium der Biologie an der Freien Universität Berlin, Hauptfächer: Zoologie, Ökologie, Zellbiologie und Paläontologie. Thema der Diplomarbeit: Ökologische Untersuchungen an Ophiuren der Deutschen Bucht.

Publikationen (referiert)

• Jungblut S, McCarthy ML, Boos K, Saborowski R, Hagen W (2018) Seasonal lipid storage and dietary preferences of native European versus invasive Asian shore crabs. Marine Ecology Progress Series, 602: 169-181.
• Jungblut S, Boos K, McCarthy ML, Saborowski R, Hagen W (2018) Invasive versus native brachyuran crabs in a European rocky intertidal: respiratory performance and energy expenditures. Marine Biology, 165: 54, 14 pp.
• Beermann J, Boos K, Gutow L, Boersma M, Peralta AC (2018) Combined effects of predator cues and competition define habitat choice and food consumption of amphipod mesograzers. Oecologia, 186: 645-654.
• Titschack J, Baum D, Matsuyama K, Boos K, Färber C, Kahl WA, Ehrig K, Meinel D, Soriano C, Stock SR (2018) Ambient occlusion – a powerful algorithm to segment shell and skeletal intrapores in computed tomography data. Computers and Geosciences, 115: 75-87.
• Jungblut S, Beermann J, Boos K, Saborowski R, Hagen W (2017) Population development of the invasive crab Hemigrapsus sanguineus (De Haan, 1853) and its potential native competitor Carcinus maenas (Linnaeus, 1758) at Helgoland (North Sea) between 2009 and 2014. Aquatic invasions, 12: 85-96.
• Jungblut S, Nachtsheim DA, Boos K, Joiris CR (2017) Biogeography of top predators – seabirds and cetaceans – along four latitudinal transects in the Atlantic Ocean. Deep Sea Research II, 141: 59-73.
• Joiris, CR, Boos K, D’Hert D, Nachtsheim DA (2016) Low densities of top predators (seabirds and marine mammals) in the high Arctic pack ice. Scientifica, 2016, Article ID: 1982534, 14 pp. 
• Laakmann S, Boos K, Knebelsberger T, Raupach MJ, Neumann H, (2016) Species identification of echinoderms from the North Sea by combining morphology and molecular data. Helgoland Marine Research, 70: 1-18.
• Färber C, Titschack J, Schönberg CHL, Ehrig K, Boos K, Baum D, Illerhaus B, Asgaard U, Bromley RG, Freiwald A, Wisshak M (2016) Long-term macrobioerosion in the Mediterranean Sea assessed by micro-computed tomography. Biogeosciences, 13: 3461-3474.
• Beermann J, Boos K(2015) Flexible microhabitat partitioning between hemi-sessile congeners. Marine Ecology Progress Series, 520: 143-151.
• Attaran-Fariman G, Beygmoradi A, Boos K (2014) First record of Ophionereis dubia (Echinodermata: Ophiuroidea) from Chabahar Bay (Gulf of Oman, Iran). Marine Biodiversity Records, 7: 1-5.
• Aumüller R, Boos K, Freienstein S, Hill K, Hill R (2013) Do migrating birds avoid offshore wind turbines? A method to investigate and analyze reactions of diurnally migrating birds to offshore wind farms (in German). Vogelwarte 51: 3-13.
• Boos K (2012) Tooth morphology and food processing in Ophiothrix fragilis (Abildgaard, 1789) and Ophiura albida Forbes, 1839 (Echinodermata: Ophiuroidea). In: Kroh, A. & Reich, M. (Eds.) Echinoderm Research 2010: Proceedings of the Seventh European Conference on Echinoderms, Göttingen, Germany, 2-9 October 2010. Zoosymposia 7, 111-119.
• Aumüller R, Boos K, Freienstein S, Hill K, Hill R (2011) Description of a bird strike event and its causes at a research platform in the German Bight, North Sea (in German). Vogelwarte 49: 9-16.
• Boos K, Gutow L, Mundry R, Franke H-D (2010) Sediment preference and burrowing behaviour in the sympatric brittlestars Ophiura albida Forbes, 1839 and Ophiura ophiura (Linnaeus, 1758) (Ophiuroidea, Echinodermata). Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology 393: 176-181.
• Gutow L, Giménez L, Boos K, Saborowski R (2009) Rapid changes in the epifaunal community after detachment of buoyant benthic macroalgae. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom, 89: 323-328.
• Cook EJ, Jahnke M, Kerckhof F, Minchin D, Faasse M, Boos K, Ashton G (2007) European expansion of the introduced amphipod Caprella mutica Schurin 1935. Aquatic Invasions, 2: 411-421.
• Gutow L, Leidenberger S, Boos K, Franke H-D (2007) Differential life history responses of two Idotea species (Crustacea: Isopoda) to food limitation. Marine Ecology Progress Series, 344:150-172.
• Boos K, Franke H-D (2006) Brittle stars (Echinodermata: Ophiuroidea) in the German Bight (North Sea) - diversity and distribution during the past 130 years. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom, 86: 1187-1197.
• Boos K, Franke H-D (2004) Abundance and distribution of ophiuroids off Helgoland, German Bight (North Sea). In Heinzeller T, Nebelsick JH (Eds.) Echinoderms: München. A.A. Balkema, Leiden, The Netherlands; pp. 157-158.

Publikationen (nicht referiert)

• Rachor E, Bönsch R, Boos K, Gosselck F, Grotjahn M, Günther C-P, Gusky M, Gutow L, Heiber W, Jantschik P, Krieg H-J, Krone R, Nehmer P, Reichert K, Reiss H, Schröder A, Witt J, Zettler ML (2013) Rote Liste und Artenlisten der bodenlebenden wirbellosen Meerestiere. In: Rote Liste gefährdeter Tiere, Pflanzen und Pilze Deutschlands. Naturschutz und Biologische Vielfalt, 70(2): 81-176.