Our Doctoral Students

Our Doctoral Students

Lara Beckmann

My work focuses on the ecology and reproduction of cold-water corals and sponges. I combine different morphological and molecular tools to get a comprehensive overview of reproductive strategies and life histories in selected coral and sponge species.
Supervisor: Rhian Waller
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Maru Bernal

My work is mainly focused on conservation and restoration of seagrass ecosystems. I am particularly interested in effective tools and strategies to enhance seagrass resilience to climate change.
Supervisor: Marlene Jahnke
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Doris Björling

My PhD project, HYDROINS, funded by the Swedish Taxonomy Initiative (SLU), will bring attention to Hydrozoa through an inventory of Anthoathecata, one of two large orders in the class.
Supervisor: Thomas Dahlgren
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Benedikt Brunner

Supervisor: Lars Gamfeldt
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Lok Shan Cheung

Supervisor: Stefano Bonaglia
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Vincent Doriot

I am a PhD student in physical oceanography, focusing on fine-scale ocean dynamics using observational techniques. My research spans the Agulhas Current system, as part of the WHIRLS project, and the Southern Ocean. Among others, our goal is to understand how fine-scale dynamics impact larger-scale circulation.
Supervisor: Sebastiaan Swart
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Johan Edholm

Doctoral student in the Polar Gliders research group.
Supervisor: Marcel du Plessis
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Estel Font Félez
Supervisor: Bastien Queste
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Vignesh Gokuladas Menon

Supervisor: Laurenz Thomsen
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Youk Greeve

Supervisor: Mats Lindegart.
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Jakob Gunnarsson

In my PhD project, I will investigate factors driving the global overturning circulation (GOC) in high-resolution climate models. The GOC is a large-scale slow circulation that redistributes heat, salt, carbon, and nutrients in the world's oceans, and thus has a major impact on climate variability over decades to millennia.
Supervisor: Fabien Roquet
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Linnea Henriksson

My PhD project will focus on the coastal carbon cycle in European oceans. I will measure natural geochemical trace elements, contaminants, greenhouse gases, and carbon.
Supervisor: Isaac Santos
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Simon Henriksson

I'm part of a project that investigates reproductive isolation between different cod "ecotypes" - cod populations that are genetically adapted to different environments and life histories. Supervisor: Rebekah Oomen
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Luisa Kumpitsch

Supervisor: Erica Leder
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Nicolai Laufer

My Phd project aims to understand and quantify how marine microbes are affected by varying resource supply and temperature regimes and how microbial functioning impacts marine dissolved organic matter turnover. 
Supervisor: Carina Bunse
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Wilma Ljungberg

My PhD project aims to investigate how melting glaciers affect the marine carbonate system in the coastal ocean.
Supervisor: Isaac Santos
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Gabriella Malmqvist

Supervisor: Erica Leder
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Diego Moreno Moran

Supervisor: Rhian Waller
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Samuel Morsbach

Modelling states and impacts in marine ecosystems under climate change: supporting a sustainable blue economy through multi-sector governance.
Supervisor: Mats Lindegarth
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Phoebe O'Brien

Supervisor: Irina Polovodova Asteman.
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Justine Pagnier

Justine Pagnier is exploring the potential of digital twins of the oceans through the integration of genetic data, image data, machine learning, and AI. Her research focuses on advancing marine biodiversity monitoring, aiming to provide actionable insights for ocean conservation.
Supervisor: Matthias Obst
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Teresa Peil

I am part of the Marine Microbial Ecology (MMEco) group, where we study how marine microbes adapt to environmental change by looking at microbial interactions within communities and how these interactions evolve over space and time. My PhD focuses on how microbial communities contribute to the turnover of dissolved organic matter (DOM) in the oceans and how this is affected by nutrient and trace metal stoichiometry.
Supervisor: Carina Bunse
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Mauro Pinto

"I'm in the FLOW lab led by Bastien Queste. Our research focuses on understanding oxygen fluxes in low-oxygen waters. In this matter, I'm going to work with microstructure data collected by gliders in the Arabian Sea to understand how turbulent processes modulate fluxes and oxygen budgets in the Oxygen Minimum Zone there.
Supervisor: Bastien Queste.
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Milad Pourdanandeh

I'm a PhD-student in marine chemical ecology within the Signals in the Sea research group. I'm interested in general zooplankton-phytoplankton interactions but I primarily study induced phytoplankton defence traits when exposed to chemical cues from copepods called copepodamides.
Supervisor: Erik Selander

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Stefanie Ries

In my research I will establish a baseline of the current genetic diversity, sexual reproduction, and connectivity of eelgrass meadows along the Swedish coast, especially in the Baltic Sea.
Supervisor: Marlene Jahnke. 
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Chloé Robert

My PhD aims at increasing our knowledge of the Scandinavian stocks of the flat oyster (Ostrea edulis). This native European species has great commercial value and is essential to the marine ecosystem thanks to its denitrification and filtration roles.
Supervisor: Pierre de Wit.
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Loraine Ropella

My doctoral project is about greenhouse gas emissions from marine blue growth with a focus on aquaculture.
Supervisor: Stefano Bonaglia
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Jan-Eike Rossius

Supervisor: Laurenz Thomson
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Johan Severinson

I work in the Zorro research group, investigating algal mats consisting of perennial algae, such as Fucus serratus and Furcellaria lumbricalis. My research will investigate the origin and connectivity of these mats using genetics and orthophotography, but also their ecology by compairing their associated fauna to that of attached algae and eelgrass.
Supervisor: Per Moksnes
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Cruise Speck

I work in a project funded by FORMAS to make an effort combining observations and experiments on ecological and genetic patterns in both natural and artificial habitats of the Blue mussel. The purpose is to contribute to a science-based management of the Swedish mussel population in a range of contexts, including monitoring and conservation of natural habitats, management of artificial structures related to recreational boating and sustainable development of marine aquaculture.
Supervisor: Mats Lindegart
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Aprajita Singh Tomer

Supervisor: Isaac Santos
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Theo Spira

Supervisor: Sebastiaan Swart
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Stina Wahlgren

Supervisor: Anna Wåhlin
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Alisa Wüst

I will investigate the dynamics of the nitrous oxide, a potent greenhouse gas, in the marine environment. Oxygen depleted zones are one of the main regions where nitrous oxide is emitted to the atmosphere. We want to understand and identify pathways of nitrous oxide and investigate environmental parameters that control its accumulation and/or production.
Supervisor: Laura Bristow
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Yu Yan Yau

Supervisor: Isaac Santos.
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