 APECS Sea Ice Discipline Coordinator
UK Polar Network
British Antarctic Survey and the University of East Anglia
I studied marine environmental sciences and maths in Germany. During my studies, I visited various research institutions in Germany and South Korea and soon became interested in the physical side of oceanography. For my diploma thesis, i moved to Helsinki, Finland and ventured for the first time into polar regions and looked at Arctic sea ice. To get first hand experience in sea ice field work, I then went to Tromso, Norway, and worked at the Norwegian Polar Institue and for the Climate and Cryosphere (CliC) International Project Office. I recently submitted my PhD thesis in physical oceanography which I did at the University of East Anglia and the British Antarctic Survey in the UK. Within the ADELIE project, I was looking at near-surface currents near the Antarctic Peninsula and investigate the variability of drifter pathways and fronts using observations and ocean models. Next stop, after writing the next paper, helping to organise a couple of APECS events and defending my thesis, will hopefully be a Post-Doc doing sea ice research. My first field trip to the Arctic got me hooked on fieldwork and so far I have been lucky enough to participate in five scientific cruises to the Arctic and the Southern Ocean. If I'm not at the laptop, I'm most likely climbing some rock, paddling my kayak, or am somewhere near the poles.
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