Kai Bishop

Seagrass meadow on the "Blue Beach" in front of Cuba. Bischof's working group examines the ecophysiology of these plants and the ecology of these habitats.

Kai Bischof (born February 5, 1970 in Münster ) is a German biologist and professor of marine botany at the University of Bremen and at the Leibniz Center for Tropical Marine Ecology , Bremen.

biography

education

From 1991 to 1996, Bischof studied biology at the Ruhr University in Bochum and Osnabrück with a focus on botany , ecology and biophysics . From 1997 he did his doctorate at the Alfred Wegener Institute in Bremerhaven and then received a postdoc position there. In 2001 he switched to a postdoctoral position in Groningen . In 2003 he became assistant professor for biological oceanography at the Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel and was head of the junior research group "Polar Algae" . Since 2006 he has been professor of marine botany at the University of Bremen .

job

His research fields are:

• marine botany
• Ecophysiology of marine algae
• Acclimatization strategies of marine plants
• Photosynthesis in marine algae and sea grass
• Stress physiology in zooxanthellae (relevant for coral systems)
• physiological protective mechanisms against light stress
• reactive oxygen species
• comparative studies on related algae from different climate zones

He teaches aquatic flora, concepts of marine ecophysiology , ecophysiology of marine algae and plant physiology .

Fonts

• With D. Hanelt and C. Wiencke: Effects of UV-radiation on seaweeds. In: JB Ørbæk et al. (Ed.): Environmental Challenges in Artic-Alpine Regions. Springer, New York / Heidelberg 2007, pp. 251-278
• With M. Molis: Forests under water - large algae communities. In: G. Hempel, I. Hempel, S. Schiel (eds.): Fascination Marine Research - An ecological reading book. Hauschild Verlag, Bremen 2006, pp. 222–228
  • New edition 2017 with Gotthilf Hempel , Wilhelm Hagen (Ed.): Fascination Marine Research. An ecological reader . Springer Verlag Berlin, ISBN 978-3-662-49714-2
• With C. Wiencke: Effects of the increase in UV radiation. In: J. Lozan et al. (Ed.): Warning signals from the polar regions. 2006, 259-263

Individual evidence

1. ^ Christiana Albertina: Research and reports from the Christian Albrechts University in Kiel . tape 58-61 . K. Wachholtz-Verlag, 2004, p. 95 ( limited preview in Google Book search).

Web links

• Kai Bischof on the website of the University of Bremen ( Memento from September 25, 2016 in the Internet Archive )