Tobias Lipsewers
Guest Researcher
Marine Ecosystem Functioning and Modelling
The Finnish Institute of Marine Research
Finland
Biography
In 2009 I completed my BSc degree in Applied Biology at the University of Applied Sciences Bonn-Rhein-Sieg (Germany). In 2011 I was awarded the degree of MSc in Marine Biology from the University of Rostock (Germany). After that I did an internship in Marine Virus Ecology at the Royal Netherlands Institute of Sea Research (NIOZ) on the island Texel (The Netherlands) for 6 months. Since August 2013 I am doing my PhD at SYKE Merikeskus in the unit “Marine Functional Biodiversity and Ecosystem Modelling”
Research Interest
Phytoplankton community composition during the Baltic spring bloom Phytoplankton identification and enumeration by traditional and modern methods (Microscopy & qPCR) Quantification of heterotrophic bacteria and phytoplankton by Flow Cytometry Interactions between phytoplankton and heterotrophic bacteria Data validation Quality control Statistical analyses Method optimization
