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
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| 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
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| 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)
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| 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.
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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. |