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My research has a strong focus on deep-sea hydrothermal vent ecosystems.

In spite of the recent technological and analytical advancement in the field of hydrothermal vent research and metagenomics, fundamental and systematic knowledge on the biodiversity of microbial life and their functional role in the unique deep sea vent environments can still be considered as in its infancy and in the exploratory phase. This hampers our ability to evaluate the global ecological role of the hydrothermal vent biota. Since genomic knowledge is still missing for most of the uncultivated lineages in hydrothermal vents, there is a comprehensive knowledge need and potential to discover new microbial lineages with novel and primordial metabolisms, as well as new metabolic inter-dependencies and species interactions. At present, knowledge is also lacking on the encoded capacity of hydrothermal vent microorganisms to produce bioactive compounds to be used in communications between and across trophic levels in the ecosystem, and in turn represent compounds for human benefit.

Integrated studies combining genome-centric metagenomics with metatrascriptomics and high-resolution microscopy is central in my research to infer potential functions of uncultured novel hydrothermal vent microbial lineages, and identifying microbial metabolic interdependencies and co-operations.

 

 

2025

2015

2023

2019

2009

2021

2022

2010

Current and previous projects

 

PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR:

2021-2025  ; Uncovering the metabolic secrets and capacity of Arctic deep-sea hydrothermal vent microbiomes. Research Council of Norway,  Researcher Project

 

PROJECT PARTNER/COLLABORATOR:

2022 - 2025 : Remote Intelligent Access to Labs in Higher Education. Erasmus+, Cooperation partnerships in higher education.

2021 -  - Trond Mohn Foundation

2021 - 2024 : environmental risk studies towards sustainable deep-sea mining on the Mid-Ocean Ridge in Norway

2021 - 2023 : A microbial toolbox for RAS production and innovation

2017-2021: KG Jebsen centre for Deep-Sea Research (leading WP6; Biodiscovery and Bioprospecting)