Maria Elisabetta Santelia

Dr. Maria Elisabetta Santelia is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Hamburg, affiliated with the Institute of Marine Ecosystem and Fisheries Sciences (IMF) within the Department of Biology, Faculty of Mathematics, Informatics and Natural Sciences. Her office is located at Olbersweg 24, Room 107, Hamburg, Germany.

Her research focuses on plankton community dynamics, evolutionary adaptations in marine environments, and ecosystem responses to environmental change. She investigates ecological interactions and biodiversity patterns in plankton systems through empirical and theoretical approaches.

• Primary Research Areas: Plankton population ecology, marine evolutionary processes, ecosystem modeling
• Methodologies: Field sampling, experimental evolution, bioinformatics

Dr. Santelia actively supervises Bachelor's and Master's student research projects in plankton ecology and participates in third-party funded collaborative initiatives. She contributes to the Plankton Ecology and Evolution research group's mission of advancing marine ecosystem science.