I am interested in the biology of coccolithophores as they are forming a major group of marine phytoplankton relevantly involved in the carbon cycle. With current climate change they represent good models to tackle environmental stress on the pelagic ecosystem.
By using culture experiments, I am intending to assess their responses to multiple environmental stressors by probing their rates of calcification and deciphering related molecular process. Furthermore, I wish to integrate my findings from culture experiments with data from sediment records, in order to get deeper insights into the interaction between coccolithophore calcification interaction with climate variability in the past.
