Alexandra Stock

Biography

Biodiversity and biogeography of marine microbial eukaryotes is my field of work. Aquatic, polyextreme environments, that are anoxic, high saline or high sulfidic, inhabit primary specially evolved microeukaryotes. With molecular sequencing tools as massively parallel sequencing technologies I analyze and compare the structure of microbial communities along strong environmental gradients. I investigated the biodiversity of protists in the anoxic Mariager Fjord in Denmark, the supersulfidic Framvaren Fjord in Norway, the Gotland Deep in the Baltic Sea, the deep hypersaline anoxic basins in the Mediterranean Sea, European coastal waters and Arctic Ice, melt ponds and icewater to uncover the influence of climate change and the associated shiftings within the communities

Research Interest

2014 - 2017 Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Kaiserslautern 2012 - 2013 Carl-Zeiss-Stiftung Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Kaiserslautern 2009 - 2011 DFG Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Kaiserslautern Education 2009 Ph. D., University of Kaiserslautern Thesis: "Diversity of indigenous microbial eukaryotes in anoxic marine systems" 2005 Diploma, University of Kaiserslautern Thesis: "Diversity of microeukaryotes in the anoxic Mariager Fjord in Denmark"