Umeå Marine Sciences Centre (UMF)

I am postdoctoral fellow in Johan Wikner’s group studying the adaptation strategies of marine prokaryotes in the cold and oligotrophic sub-Arctic and Arctic ecosystems.

I am investigating the effects of variations in the visible light spectrum in seawater on phytoplankton on both community and species levels.

I work with environmental monitoring and condition assessment of the marine environment in the Gulf of Bothnia, mainly soft-bottom fauna but also underwater vegetation and fish.

My research focuses on microbial processes related to the formation of methylmercury, as well as the potential use of microbial communities as bio-indicators of environmental pollution.