BIO
My main research interest lies in the feedback between climate change and soil microbial communities in soils. I’ve researched this in projects about the influence of elevated atmospheric CO2 levels on rhizosphere grass communities, anaerobic methane oxidation after permafrost thaw and the temperature trait-distributions of soil bacterial communities in the Arctic.
Experience
2017- 2022
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Ph.D. candidate
Studying the impact of soil temperature on Artic soil bacterial communities in terms of community dynamics and temperature responses.
2017
Helmholtz-Zentrums Potsdam - GFZ
Research Intern
Quantification and cultivation of anaerobic methane-oxidizing archaea (ANME-2d) from permafrost cores.
Present
Stockholm University
Postdoctoral Fellow
Studying plant-soil interactions in the Canadian Arctic by the use of stable isotopes.
2015-2016
Radboud Universiteit
Research Intern
Unravelling the species-interactions in a co-culture of aceticlastic methanogenic archaea and type II methanotrophic bacteria in a bio-reactor.