Function and Responsibilities:

Research scientist working on MiDiPeat project (BioDiversa) within section 3.6 (Geomicrobiology)

Research Interests:

Anaerobic and aerobic methane oxidation in peatlands
Peat microbiome in rewetted peatlands with the focus on C-cycling (methanotrophy and methanogenesis)
N₂O emissions in rewetted peatlands

Career:

• 2021 - 2024    Postdoctoral researcher, Department of Biology, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
  •  Marine Microbial Genomics and Biogeochemistry
  • "Effects of Ocean Alkalinity Enhancement (OAE) on the marine microbiome"
  • "Nitrogen fixation in meromictic lakes"
• 2020 - 2021    Postdoctoral researcher, McGill University, Montréal, Québec, Canada contract with ORNL (see below)
  • Abiotic and biotic controls of nitrogen fixation in cool ombrotrophic bogs

  • The effects of climate change on Sphagnum-microbiome interactions, CO₂ exchange, and N₂ fixation processes in peatlands" as part of the SPRUCE project

• 2020               Postdoctoral research associate, Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Tennessee, USA (2-year contract, interrupted due to COVID-19)
  • Spruce and Peatland Responses Under Changing Environments (SPRUCE) project
    

Education:

• 2019 - PhD in Geography (Biogeochemistry) at McGill University (Montréal, Canada) 
  Topic: Biological nitrogen fixation in ombrotrophic peatlands
• 2012 - MSc in Biology at Villanova University (Pennsylvania, USA) 
  Topic: Inputs of nitrogen to boreal bogs of northern Alberta, Canada: The importance of biological N2 fixation.
• 2009 - BSc in Biology at Villanova University (Pennsylvania, USA)
  Topic: Impacts of rising sea levels and salinity intrusion on the metabolic activity and community composition of sulfate-reducing bacteria in tidal freshwater marsh sediments