Dr. rer. nat. Giulia Faucher
Postdoctoral Researcher
Research Division: Marine Biogeochemistry
Research Unit: Biological Oceanography
Office
Room: 2.305
Telephone: +49 431 600 4214
E-Mail: gfaucher(at)geomar.de
Address: GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel
Wischhofstr. 1-3, 24148 Kiel, Germany
Research Interests
- Plankton physiology and ecology
- Ocean changes (ocean acidification, global warming, trace metals)
- Role of phytoplankton in carbon cycling and its response to environmental changes
- Effectiveness and ecological impacts of ocean alkalinity enhancement as a method to remove atmospheric CO₂
Career / Employment
Current positions
- since 2/2024 MSCA research fellow for the project TRAMAE, The response of coccolithophores - calcifying marine phytoplankton- to TRAce Metals and Alkalinity Enhancement
- since 3/2024: post-doctoral researcher in the project Ocean-cdr
- since 3/2023: post-doctoral researcher in the project Ocean Alk-Align
Previous positions
- 2022-2023: Postdoctoral researcher at GEOMAR working group of Prof Dr Ulf Riebesell
- 2018-2021: Postdoctoral researcher at UNIMIL working group of Prof Dr Elisabetta Erba in the project Biota resilience to global change: biomineralization of planktic and benthic calcifiers in the past, present and future
- 2016-2018: Postdoctoral researcher at UNIMIL working group of Dr Cinzia Bottini in the project Tracing calcareous nannoplankton response to ocean acidification under extreme climatic and ecological conditions: comparing culture experiment and geological data
Education
- November 2011 - February 2015 PhD student. Topic: coccolithophore responses to extreme climatic conditions | Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy
- June - September 2013 LLP Erasmus-Student placement | GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel, Germany
- October 2009 – February 2011 Master in Natural Sciences | Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy
- October 2004 – February 2008 Bachelor in Natural Sciences | Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy
Awards
- February 2023: European grant - MSCA-PF-GF. Project: TRAMAE: the response of coccolithophores - calcifying marine phytoplankton- to TRAce Metals and Alkalinity Enhancement. Starting date: February 2024.
- July 2017: short-term DAAD grant: scholarship awarded for study and laboratory experiments at GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel, Germany.
- September 2016: Quintino Sella prize of the Geological Society of Italy for best PhD thesis in geosciences
- July 2015: Awarded a one-year post-doctoral grant from the Fondazione F.lli Confalonieri, Milan, Italy
Publications
ORCiD | Google Scholar | PANGAEA
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