Dr. Alexandra Drossou-Berendes

Born: 23 August 1972 in Athens, Greece
Nationalities: Greek, German

1978-1990: School education and university entrance qualification in Levadia/Beotien, Greece

1991-1993: Vocational training, Vocational College for Pharmaceutical-Technical Assistance in Hamburg

1993-1996: Undergraduate studies in Biology, Julius-Maximilians University in Würzburg

1996-2000: Graduate studies in Biology, University of Kiel (CAU)
Diploma-thesis at the Institute for Marine Research (IfM) in Kiel, in cooperation with the research laboratory of the dept. of Internal Medicine of the CAU

1997: Three-month "AquaTT-Student placement" funded by the EU project "Leonardo Da Vinci Traineeship", Institute for Marine Biology in Crete (IMBC), Greece

2001-2006: PhD in Fisheries Biology, Leibniz-Institute of Marine Sciences (IFM-GEOMAR) in Kiel

1997-1999: Research assistant, Institute for Marine Research (IfM) in Kiel

1999-2004: Subcontracts in the project LarvalBase, Bioserve

2001: Three-month project funded by the EU programme "Human Potential: Access to Research Infrastructures", High Technology Centre and University of Bergen (dept. of Biology), Norway

2003-2004: Subcontract in the BMBF project GLOBEC-Germany, Baltic Sea Research Institute in Warnemünde (IOW)

2003, 2004: Subcontracts in the EU project ECOCARP, Leibniz-Institute of Marine Sciences (IFM-GEOMAR) in Kiel, carried out at the Institute for Hydrobiology in Wuhan, China

Seit 2006:    Scientific officer at GEOMAR
        2006-2011: Coordination of the cooperation "Sino-German Initiative on Marine Sciences", funded by BMBF
        2008-2011: Management of the project CALMARO "Calcification by Marine Organisms", a EU-FP7 Marie Curie Initial Training Network; Individual research funding with focus on EU programmes (Marie Curie, ERC)
        Since 2011: Research funding with special focus on EU programmes

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