PhD studies

Several PhD students are currently working at the Marine Biology department. Their studies are either scholarships or financed through funded research projects. The department itself has not the possibility to grant PhD positions. Hence, third-party finances are mandatory. However, visiting scientists are welcome to join the department in order to carry-out parts of their PhD work in our labs.

This page will present new PhD topics, if available.

Detailed information about studying in Rostock can be found at the student affairs office of the Biosciences institute:
http://www.biologie.uni-rostock.de/studium/index.html

 

ongoing studies

completed theses

 

Current PhD studies:

  • Kerstin Rieder

Carbon fluxes across beaches of contrasting levels of exposition, with special focus on meiofauna organisms (DBU and IOW-return scholarship)

  • Renz Judith Rahel

Bioturbation: motor of contaminant remobilisation from marine sediments

  • Stephan Werk

Measurement of particle fluxes around seamounts using radionuclide tracers (EU project OASIS)

 

 

Completed PhD theses:

2005

 

  • Martin Feike

The impact of stranded detritus on the beach ecosystem (DBU)

  • Florian Peine

Influence of subtidal macrofauna organisms generating biogenic structures on the near-bottom particle transport in the southwester Baltic Sea (funded by German Federal Ministry of Education and Research and BWB alongside with the project DYNAS)

2003

 

  • Michael Friedrichs

Flow-induced effects of macrozoobenthic structures on the near-bed sediment transport (DYNAS)

  • Kai Ziervogel

Aggregation and transport behaviour of sediment surface particles in Mecklenburg Bight, south-western Baltic Sea, affected by biogenic stickiness (DYNAS)