Expert*Innen / Expertise

Students on the biosciences MSc courses at the University of Greifswald learn about the species community of the intertidal zone of a rocky coast (Photo: Steffen Harzsch)

Institute for Biochemistry

Prof. Uwe Bornscheuer 

plastic biodegration; biocatalysis; enzyme function; protein engeneering


Institute for Botany and Landscape Ecology

Prof. Jürgen Kreyling

Coastal marshes; production and decomposotion of plant biomass; cultivation of macro-algae

 

Prof. Gerald Jurasinski

Formation conditions, vegetation dynamics, carbon turnover and greenhouse gas exchange of coastal peatlands


Institute of Geography and Geology

Prof. Claudia Wrozyna 

Coastal ecosystems, Paleoenvironmental reconstructions, ioindicators

 

Prof. Heiko Hüneke

Marine bottom currents and deep-sea sedimentation

 

Prof. Sebastian van der Linden

Earth observation of coastal areas; Monitoring of wetlands/peatlands

 

Prof. Torsten Haberzettl

anthropogenic impact on lagoonal systems and estuaries , environmental history of lagoonal systems and estuaries

 

Dr. Thomas Kasper

anthropogenic impact on lagoonal systems and estuaries , environmental history of lagoonal systems and estuaries, coastal ecosystems

 

Prof. Susanne Stoll-Kleemann

ocean literacy, littoral communities, sustainable sea use (e.g. diving), regional focus Baltic Sea and Mediterranean Sea

 

Prof. Christine Tamásy

Blue Economy

 

Prof. Daniel Schiller

sustainable regional development of coastal regions, blue bioeconomy


Institute of Microbiology

Dr. Marion Köster

marine microbial ecology; role of microbes in the carbon cycle, interactions beetween microplastics and plankton; coastal and offshore invironments

 

Dr. Mia Maria Bengtsson

Microbiomes of aquatic macrophytes and microalgae, community ecology of microbiomes, from microalgae to mammals, biofilms, macrophyte bed ecology (kelp forests/seagrass meadows), Peatland microbiomes

 

Prof. Tim Urich

Marine microbiomes, Archaea

 

Prof. André Scheffel

molecular physiology of microalgae; protein functions; biomineralization and the marine bioeconomy


Institute of Pharmacy

Prof. Thomas Schweder

Bacterial physiology; molecular mechanisms of marine polysaccharide degradation; marine symbioses; microbial biotechnology

 

Prof. Katharina Schauffler

antimicrobial-resistant (AMR) bacteria (in wastewater and surface water) in the Baltic Sea region; antibiotic residues


Zoological Institute and Museum

Prof. Alexander Wacker

variance effects on biological systems; multiple stressor research; plankton ecology

 

Dr. Erik Sperfeld

multiple stressor research; plankton ecology; brackish invertebrates

 

Prof. Steffen Harzsch

organogenesis in marine invertebrate larvae; sensory systems in crustaceans; neorobiology of ocean change; multiple stressor research

 

Dr. Eva Ehrnsten

benthic fauna; ecosystem modelling; marine biogeochemistry

 

Dr. Angela Schmitz-Ornés

marine avifauna