Ecology and diversity of mesopelagic fishes in the Atlantic

Pelagic food web structure in the Southeast Atlantic

Impacts of environmental factors on fish communities

Eastern Boundary Current Upwelling Systems

Fish communities in oxygen minimum zones

Determine the role of mesopelagic fishes in the marine food web of the Benguela Upwelling System

Determine the environmental drivers of mesopelagic fishes in the Canary and Benguela Currents

Since 2023: Post-doctoral researcher at the Thünen Institute of Sea Fisheries in the B-USEFUL project

2018-2023: PhD student at the Thünen Institute of Sea Fisheries and the University of Bremen. Supervisors Dr. Heino Fock and Prof. Wilhelm Hagen. Thesis title: “Assemblage structure and trophodynamics of mesopelagic fishes in the Benguela and Canary Current Upwelling Systems”

2015-2017: Master of Science in Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität (LMU), Munich, Germany. Thesis title: “You are what you eat: How nutrients and zooplankton composition in differing lakes affect the diet and size of lake whitefish (Coregonus sp.)”

2014-2015: Environmental education and Ecology instructor/Trip leader – Washington and Georgia, USA and Heredia, Costa Rica

2013: Research Assistant – Tortuguero, Costa Rica

2008-2012: Bachelor of Science with major Biology and minor in Spanish at the University of Puget Sound in Tacoma, Washington, USA