Research administration: pre-award support; administrative support of CEDAS (Center for Data Science); development and improvement of research administrative processes and routines at the department; leadership support; other administrative work

Leadership and career awareness: I have been the Head of the Research Section at the Department of Informatics since summer 2021. As a leader, I think it is important to help your team members to reflect on their career options and show them different ways for both personal and professional growth. At an organization focused on research and education, it can however be challenging in some administrative areas to find your own career path. To better support my administrative colleagues, leadership, and scientific staff - while at the same time trying to gain more clarity about my own career direction - I adopted a two-lane career approach: strengthening my expertise in research administration (lane 1) and actively developing my career awareness to figure out what kind of position I could really set my heart on (lane 2). If you would like to know more about my (ongoing) journey, then follow the link.

Institutional responsibilities (current and previous)

• First deputy representative for group C (technical and administrative staff) in the Department Council of the Department of Informatics (2025-)
• Contact person at the department for different research administrative networks and VIS
• Safety officer at the Department of Informatics (2023-2024)
• First deputy representative for group C (technical and administrative staff) in the Faculty Board of the Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences (2021-2025)
• CRIStin reporting of publications (2019-2024)
• Administrative support of the ICT Research School (Department of Informatics, 2019-2023)
• Participation in the university's Service Innovation Program (2019)
• Member of the steering group for the Young Research Leaders program (Faculty of Psychology, 2015-2018)
• Project management: reporting, organization of project meetings, communication, outreach, archiving, planning of researcher exchanges and more (2012-2016)

Member of the organizing committee for the CEDAS Data Science Hackathon 2025

Member of the organizing committee for the Joint CEDAS-NORBIS summer school 2023

Member of the organizing committee for the CEDAS conference 2021

Co-organization of a science-policy event on “10 years of ocean carbon and climate research in Bergen”, Bergen, Norway, 20/01/2015
 

• PS915 Introductory course on how to write competitive research grant applications (spring 2019)
• Introductory course on how to write competitive research grant applications (together with Mathew Stiller-Reeve) (spring 2020, fall 2021)
• Proposal writing class (fall 2020, fall 2021)

Academic article

• Molari, Massimiliano; Guilini, Katja; Lott, Christian et al. (2018). CO2 leakage alters biogeochemical and ecological functions of submarine sands. (external link)

Academic literature review

• Heinze, Christoph; Meyer, Stefanie; Goris, Nadine et al. (2015). The ocean carbon sink - Impacts, vulnerabilities and challenges. (external link)

See a complete overview of publications in Cristin.

Scientific background: marine microbiology and ecology, biogeochemistry, molecular biology, microbial biogeography, marine S cycle, marine C cycle, ocean acidification, climate change.

Selected peer-reviewed publications

Molari M, Guilini K, Lott C, Weber M, de Beer D, Meyer S, Ramette A, Wegener G, Wenzhöfer F, Martin D, Cibic T, De Vittor C, Vanreusel A & Boetius A (2018) CO2 leakage alters biogeochemical and ecological functions of submarine sands. Science Advances 4: eaao2040. doi: 10.1126/sciadv.aao2040.

Heinze C, Meyer S, Goris N, Anderson L, Steinfeldt R, Chang N, Le Quéré C & Bakker DCE (2015) The ocean carbon sink - impacts, vulnerabilities and challenges. Earth System Dynamics 6: 327-358. doi: 10.5194/esd-6-327-2015.

Meyer S, Wegener G, Lloyd KG, Teske A, Boetius A & Ramette A (2013) Microbial habitat connectivity across spatial scales and hydrothermal temperature gradients at Guaymas Basin. Frontiers in Microbiology 4: 207. doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2013.00207.

Grünke S, Lichtschlag A, de Beer D, Felden J, Salman V, Ramette A, Schulz-Vogt HN & Boetius A (2012) Mats of psychrophilic thiotrophic bacteria associated with cold seeps of the Barents Sea. Biogeosciences 9: 2947-2960. doi: 10.5194/bg-9-2947-2012.

Grünke S, Felden J, Lichtschlag A, Girnth AC, de Beer D, Wenzhöfer F & Boetius A (2011) Niche differentiation among mat-forming, sulfide-oxidizing bacteria at cold seeps of the Nile Deep Sea Fan (Eastern Mediterranean Sea). Geobiology 9: 330-348. doi: 10.1111/j.1472-4669.2011.00281.x.

Grünke S, Lichtschlag A, de Beer D, Kuypers M, Lösekann-Behrens T, Ramette A & Boetius A (2010) Novel observations of Thiobacterium, a sulfur-storing Gammaproteobacterium producing gelatinous mats. ISME Journal 4: 1031-1043. doi: 10.1038/ismej.2010.23.

Horizon Europe project LEAD AI (Bergen research and training program for future AI leaders across the disciplines). Proposal support, Project Manager 8/2023-2/2024

EU-FP7-project CARBOCHANGE (Changes in carbon uptake and emissions by oceans in a changing climate). Project Manager

EU-FP7-PEOPLE Marie Curie Actions IRSES project SOCCLI (The role of Southern Ocean carbon cycle under climate change). Project Manager

NFR-KLIMAFORSK-project EVA (Earth system modelling of climate variations in the anthropocene). Project Manager

EU-FP7-project ECO2 (Sub-seabed CO2 storage: Impact on marine ecosystems). Research Associate and Project Manager (assisting task manager)

EU-FP7-project HERMIONE (Hotspot ecosystem research and man's impact on European seas). Dissertation

EU-FP6-project HERMES (Hotspot ecosystem research on the margins of European seas). Dissertation