HoD, Benthic Ecology, GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel, Germany (http://www.geomar.de)

Studies of natural science and marine ecology on France (Perpignan & Montpellier) and Germany (Kiel). PhD in chemical marine ecology at the University of Kiel (Germany) & the Universitè de Paris (France). Postdoc stays at Scripps (Ca, USA), IFM (NC, USA) and Windhoek University (Namibia). Research projects in the Pacific, NW-Atlantic, SE-Atlantic, Mediterranean and Baltic Sea on various topics in the fields chemical ecology, epibiosis and stress ecology. Head of the global research network GAME (http://www.geomar.de/en/research/fb3/fb3-eoe/fb3-eoe-b/game/)