CV - Cornelia Jaspers

 

 

 

EDUCATION                                                                                                                                             

2008-2012 Ph.D. in Biological Oceanography, Technical University of Denmark
2008 M.Sc. in Biological Oceanography, University of Southern Denmark (SDU) & National Environmental Research Institute, Aarhus University, Denmark
2006 Biological Oceanography studies at the University of Kiel, Germany
2005-2006 Biological Oceanography studies at the University of Southern Denmark
2004 Vordiplom in Biology at University of Hamburg, Germany. Grade: very good (summa cum laude)
2002-2005 Bank employee in the Capital Markets Department, Division: Private Equity, HSH Nordbank AG, Hamburg, Germany (part time to 100%)

 

POSITIONS       

 

2020-current Centre leader of Centre for Gelatinous Plankton Ecology & Evolution, National Institute of Aquatic Resources, Technical University of Denmark
2019-current Senior Scientist, DTU Aqua, Technical University of Denmark
2016-2019 Post doc, Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research – Kiel, GEOMAR, Germany
2012-2016 Post doc, DTU Aqua (2014-2016 DFF/Marie-Curie outgoing to GEOMAR, Germany)
2012 Post doc, Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, USA and Aarhus University (5 months DAAD financed)
2002-2005 Bank employee in the Capital Markets Department, Division Private Equity, HSH Nordbank AG, Hamburg, Germany (part time to 100%)

FUNDING AND AWARDS (total: ca. €6 M funded)

In total, ca. 6 Mio EUR were generated as external funding during my past research activities where I was PI or Co-PI, including personal research grants & awards (> €1.86 M), collaborative research grants (> €2.7 M) and DFG research grants and ship time (ca. €1.5 M). Selection outlined below:

FUNDED PERSONAL RESEARCH GRANTS & AWARDS

total: > €1,860,000

selection

2022 Aquacosm + (EU, H2020), 119 person days at Bergen University for CJ team (c. € 20 T) PI C.J.
2020 Otto Mønsted visiting professorship for Hans Dam, University of Connecticut, USA to visit the Centre for gelatinous plankton ecology & evolution, DTU Aqua for 3 months (213 TDKK)
2019 Villum Young Investigator program (DKK 10 M, ca.  €1.34 M), to set up a scientific working group for five years at DTU Aqua
2017 Lynn Margulis award (€10 K) to support a research collaboration & visit, Yale University 2018
2017 Baltic Gender fellowship (€3 K) for supporting women in science (Horizon 2020)
2017 Awarded via:mento_ocean fellowship, mentoring program to support women in academia (Excellence Cluster Future Ocean, Kiel, Germany)
2015 Excellence cluster Future Ocean, CAU (Germany) project PI “Role of hybridization and microbial associations for invasion success in a comb jelly” (€75 K)
2013 Personal post doc grant; 2 years (2.6 M. DKK, ca. €350 K) Danish Research Council (DFF) / Marie Curie
2012 Personal post doc grant; 5 months (travel & salary), German Exchange Service, DAAD (€14,338)
2011 Research grant, Royal Swedish Academy of Sci. to cover a 3 week project in Sweden 12K DKK= €1.6 K
2011 Travel grant to participate in the 5th Zooplankton Production Symp., Pucon, Chile (ICES) 1K CAD=€750
2010 Mobility grant; Nordic Marine Academy (boat time/ expenses for 1 month field work) 25 K NOK=€3 K
2010 ASSEMBLE grant covering a 2 week research visit (Sven Lovén C. for Marine Sci., SE) 50 K SEK=€5.5 K
2009  Outstanding student presentation award, ASLO Aquatic Science Meeting, Nice, France
2008 ASLO Travel Grant, Orlando, USA ca. 800 USD = ca. €550
2007 Tuition fee grant from University of Hamburg due to extraordinary exam results €350
2006 SOCRATES/ERASMUS Mobility Grant (University of Kiel, Germany) €800 

 

FUNDED COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH PROPOSALS

total: > €2,7 M

selection

2023-2027 ACTNOW (Horizon Europe) co-PI total budget DTU Aqua (DKK 3 M, €400T, 6 months salary to C.J. directly)
2022-2025 Ocean Exploration and Research (NOAA OE, USA) funded project co-PI “America’s last frontier: Exploring pelagic biodiversity of the Gulf of Alaska and the impact of its seamounts” covering ship time, travel and partial salary (total $750 T, €700 T), covering ship time of $500T (to be conducted in May 2024)
2023 EU CINEA/EMFAF European Climate Invited as non-indigenous species expert for the comb jellyfish Mnemiopsis leidyi under ‘Invasive species in the Baltic Sea and their impact on commercial fish stocks’ co-PI, 0.5 months salary
2020-2023 EuroMarine Jellyfish expert group “JELLY-NEXT” co-PI (€5,000)
2017/2020 Course responsible (develop and lead) and cruise leader (chief scientist) R/V Alkor, 2 week Biological Oceanography (BO) teaching cruise for M.Sc. program at GEOMAR focusing on basic principles & modern methods in BO – incl. video plankton recordings (€300 K)

 

FUNDED GERMAN RESEARCH FOUNDATION PROJECTS, SHIP TIME

total: ca. €1,5 M

 

2016 - 2020 Baltic Sea April, Co-PI

2016 - 2020 Baltic Sea Mai, Co-PI

SCIENTIFIC LEADERSHIP & SOCIETY SERVICES

 

SCIENTIFIC LEADERSHIP:

selected

2020  current Centre leader for gelatinous plankton ecology and evolution
2020 – current Euro Marines working group leadership WG Jelly-Next
2019 – 2020 Group leader in zooplankton ecology and evolution, DTU Aqua
2019 – current Nominated and elected national representative for Denmark of the International Council for the Exploration of the Seas (ICES) working group zooplankton ecology
2019 – current Nominated and elected national representative for Denmark of the International Council for the Exploration of the Seas (ICES) working group zooplankton ecology
2019 Chairman of 'Young Investigator Research Day' (YIRD) conference - function and origin of metaorganisms, 1.5 days, 100 participants, 3 international key note speakers Kiel, Germany 09.20219
2017 & 2020 Course responsible and chief scientist of 15 days practical biological oceanography education at sea with R/V ALKOR (55m, 1000BRT)
2016/19/20/21/23 Chief scientist for coastal plankton investigations in Danish waters
2016

Leading experimental evolution study (securing funds, preparation & execution) at the Danish Shellfish Centre (DTU Aqua) for 3.5 months with participation of up to 10 students simultaneously. 

 

SCIENTIFIC MEETING ORGANISATION AND UNIVERSITY / SOCIETY SERVICES:

selected

2023 Co-convener at the Aquatic Science Meeting (ASLO), for the session ‘Mechanisms and costs of adaptation to global change in aquatic systems’, 4-9 June 2023 Palma de Mallorca, Spain
2019 Co-convener at the 6thinternational jellyfish blooms symposium for the session ‘Novel techniques for understanding the ecology of gelatinous zooplankton blooms’ in Cape Town, South Africa 4.–6.11.2019.
2018 Session chair on evolution and ecology aspects of microbiota host interactions of the science evaluation retreat of the Collaborate Research Centre 1182 ‘Origin and function of metaorganisms’. Total number of conference participants ca. 100
2015 Guest editor and coordination of a special collection of themed papers onInteractions of gelatinous zooplankton within marine food websfor Journal of Plankton Research.
2014 Convener and initiator of the special theme session: “Gelatinous zooplankton on a global perspective: interactions with fisheries and consequences for socio-economics” 2.5-day session at the ICES annual conference in Spain. Co-conveners: Richard Brodeur (PICES, USA), José Luis Acuña (ICES, Spain) with 45 participants from 18 countries and 29 oral presentations and >10% of all conference abstracts.
2012 Co-convener and invited European representative of the fish-jellyfish interaction session at the annual PICES meeting in Hiroshima, Japan (ICES representative, 1-day session with 29 presenters).
2011 Organization and initiation of the international workshop on “Range expansion of the invasive comb jelly M. leidyi in European waters” with 44 participants from 10 countries, held at DTU Aqua, October 2011 Copenhagen, Denmark.
2004-2005 Student representative to the Department of Biology of the University of Hamburg council (Fachbereichsrat), Germany.
2003-2005 Active member of the student council (Fachschaftsrat), University of Hamburg, Germany.