Mareike Huhn

ACADEMIC FORMATION & WORK EXPERIENCE 2015 - present: Co-founder (2015 - 2017) and director (since 2018) of Luminocean. Community work and marine education at the Banda Islands. 2015 - 2017 Researcher within the Australian-Indonesian partner project “Trial of an early-warning system for marine pests at the Banda Islands, Moluccas, Indonesia”. Funded by the Australian National University. 2012 - 2016 PhD candidate at the Christian-Albrechts-University Kiel, Germany. Collaborative research at the Bogor Agricultural University (IPB), Indonesia, and the Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research GEOMAR, Kiel, Germany. 2011 Graduation in Biology (German Diplom, equivalent Master) at the Julius-Maximilians-University Würzburg, Germany. Major: Tropical Ecology, Thesis within the international program 'Global Approach by Modular Experiments' at GEOMAR, Kiel, including 6 months research at the Bogor Agricultural University, Indonesia. MAREIKE HUHN SCHOLARSHIPS & AWARDS 2016 Award for the best oral presentation at the International Conference on Marine Bioinvasions, Sydney, Australia 2016 DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service) travel grant for international congresses Dr. rer. nat. Marine Science - DAAD Scholarship for PhD students within international projects Director of Luminocean - PT. Marina Citra Selaras 2011 Award for one of the four best Diploma theses of the year 2011, faculty of Biology, University Würzburg 2010 DAAD scholarship for international Master theses (5 months) 2009 DAAD scholarship for international internships (3 months) CONTACT- ENVIRONMENTAL CONSERVATION Co-founder and director of Luminocean, Jakarta, Indonesia www.luminocean.com and BandaSEA e.V., Bonn, Germany www.bandasea.org LANGUAGE SKILLS German: native speaker English: near native Indonesian: excellent French: good SKILLS Scientific writing & presenting Teaching experience in statistics for life sciences (software R) Teaching experience in experimental design for life sciences Teaching experience in environmental ediucation Expererience in NGO management & community work SSI Dive Instructor Ecodiver Trainer organisation Reefcheck Coral reef assessment skills (Point Intercept Transect, Fish ID and coral health) MOST RELEVANT SCIENTIFIC PUBLICATIONS Huhn M, Madduppa HH, Khair M, Sabrian A, et al. (2019). Keeping up with introduced marine species at a remote biodiversity hotspot: awareness, training and collaboration across different sectors is key. Biological Invasions, 22, 749–771 Huhn M, Zamani NP, Lenz M (2017). Tolerance to hypoxia in Asian green mussels, Perna viridis, collected from a ship hull in the non-native range in eastern Indonesia. Management of Biological Invasions, 8:2,227-233 Huhn M, Zamani NP, von Juterzenka K, Lenz M (2016). Food availability in an anthropogenically impacted habitat determines tolerance to hypoxia in the Asian green mussel Perna viridis. Marine Biology -:15, DOI 10.1007/s- Huhn M, Zamani NP, Lenz M (2015). A ferry line facilitates dispersal: Asian green mussels Perna viridis (Linnaeus, 1758) detected in eastern Indonesia. BioInvasion Records, Volume 4, Issue 1: 23–29