Marine Geomicrobiologist · Biogeochemist · Field Scientist
Understanding what lives on plastic in the ocean — and what that means for the planet.
I study the intersection of marine pollution, microbial ecology, and geochemistry — how plastic debris in coastal environments becomes a habitat, a metal reservoir, and a site of active biogeochemical cycling. Looking to bring this work into environmental science, sustainability, and the circular economy.
Msimbazi River, Dar es-Salaam, Tanzania · 2022
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Actively looking for roles in marine environmental science, sustainability, and the circular economy. Based in Copenhagen, open to relocation across Europe, to Singapore, or to Sydney.
Background
My scientific path began with the solid Earth — rocks, minerals, deep time — studying Earth Science at Imperial College London, graduating as an Associate of the Royal School of Mines, professionally accredited by the Geological Society of London.
An MSc in Climate Change at the University of Copenhagen shifted my focus toward the present and urgent. Before my PhD I worked as a research assistant on nanocatalytic microbial methanation in abandoned North Sea oil infrastructure — an early encounter with how microbes transform the materials we leave behind.
My PhD at Copenhagen's POSTH Lab under Prof. Nicole Posth brought me to the coastal ocean and plastic pollution. I studied how plastic debris in the water column and sediment becomes colonised by microbial communities — the plastisphere — and how those communities interact with metals and minerals across redox environments. This included fieldwork along the Tanzanian coastline, extending plastisphere science into the understudied Western Indian Ocean.
Most recently I completed an internship at the Danish Technological Institute in the Bioplastics and Biodegradability section, bridging academic research with applied industrial science.
I work across disciplines by necessity: field sampling, geochemical analysis, SEM-EDS, microbial sequencing, bioinformatics. The ocean's problems don't fit clean boxes, and neither do I.
Intern · May–Jun 2025
Bioplastics & Biodegradability
Danish Technological Institute
RA · May–Aug 2024
Research Assistant
University of Copenhagen (GLOBE & IGN)
PhD · 2021–2024
Geomicrobiology & Biogeochemistry
University of Copenhagen · POSTH Lab
RA · Sep–Nov 2020
Research Assistant
UCPH, DTU & DHRTC
MSc · 2018–2020
Climate Change
Niels Bohr Institute, Copenhagen
BSc · 2014–2017
Earth Science
Imperial College London · ARSM
PhD Defence · University of Copenhagen · September 2024
Outside the Lab
I paint in acrylics on black paper — almost always big cats. There is something about working in white on black that feels honest: you are pulling light out of darkness, which is not so different from fieldwork. I am drawn to apex predators the same way I am drawn to the ocean — they hold ecosystems together, and we are losing them.
