Our team.

The ADVANCE project team consists of 11 scientists (6 members if the ICB Cluj group and 5 members of the NIVA group)

Dr. Bogdan Drugă
Principal Investigator
​Email: [email protected]

Expertise and scientific interests
Phytoplankton ecology;  molecular biology; adaptive evolution; upscaling lab tests to mesocosms experiments

Dr. Wenche Eikrem
Team: NIVA
​Email: [email protected]

Expertise and scientific interests
​Microalgal taxonomy, electron microscopy, protist diversity and distribution, flora production, isolate cultures

Prof. Richard Bellerby
NIVA Team Leader
​Email: [email protected]

Expertise and scientific interests
Marine biogeochemistry and oceanography; ​interpretations of the natural ocean system from expeditions; ocean models; global datasets

Dr. Edina Szekeres
​Team: ICB Cluj
​Email: [email protected]

Expertise and scientific interests
​Batch culture experiments on bacteria and microalgae; ​antimicrobial resistance; molecular biology

Dr. Adriana Hegedus
Team: ICB Cluj
Email: [email protected]

Expertise and scientific interests
Microalgae experiments; molecular biology; algal strain isolation; bioinformatics

Dr. Bibiana Crespo
​Team: NIVA
​Email: [email protected]

Expertise and scientific interests
Microbial isolation; marine ecology; molecular biology; ​using microalgae for wastewater treatment

Dr. Anette Engesmo
​Team: NIVA
​Email: [email protected]

Expertise and scientific interests
​Microalgal taxonomy; molecular monitoring; phylogenetics; qPCR; electron microscopy
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Dr. Cristian Coman
​Team: ICB Cluj
​Email: [email protected]

Expertise and scientific interests
​Environmental microbiology; molecular biology; antimicrobial resistance

Dr. Charlotte Briddon
Team: ICB Cluj
​Email: [email protected]

Expertise and scientific interests
​Paleolimnology; ocean biogeochemical cycling; water chemistry analyses;  multivariate statistics (R)

Maria Nicoară
​Team: ICB Cluj
​Email: [email protected]

Expertise and scientific interests
Experiments with microalgae cultures; molecular biology; statistics

Dr. Philip Wallhead
​Team: NIVA
​Email: [email protected]

Expertise and scientific interests
​Marine ecosystem modelling and statistical analyses; investigating the response of aquatic systems to environmental drivers