Natalie Loick-Wilde

Dr. Natalie Loick-Wilde is a Researcher at the Leibniz-Institute for Baltic Sea Research (IOW) in Rostock, Germany, leading the Working group on Aquatic Food Webs within the institute's biological oceanography research division.

Her research focuses on functional biodiversity and aquatic food webs, with emphasis on marine nitrogen, carbon, and amino acid cycles. She studies phyto- and zooplankton ecophysiology using bulk and compound-specific stable isotope ecology to understand biogeochemical processes in marine systems.

As Principal Investigator, she leads the DFG-funded MeNARP project (2020-2023) and the BMBF Fona project Blue_Estuaries (2020-2023). She was Co-PI for an NSF collaborative research project (2018-2020) investigating the Amazon River Plume's impact on nitrogen availability and planktonic food webs in the Western Tropical North Atlantic.

Dr. Loick-Wilde collaborates extensively with international partners, including institutions in Denmark, USA, and Vietnam, and serves as a reviewer for top journals such as Nature and ISME.