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Dr. Frithjof Christian Küpper
Professor Frithjof Kuepper | Oceanlab | The University of Aberdeen (abdn.ac.uk)
Professor, Chair in Biodiversity
School of Biological Sciences, University of Aberdeen, Cruickshank Building, St. Machar Drive, Aberdeen AB24 3UU, Scotland, UK and Department of Chemistry, Marine Biodiscovery Centre, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen AB24 3UE, Scotland, UK
Short Biography
Frithjof Christian Küpper (left) has held the chair in marine biodiversity at the University of Aberdeen since 2011, after eight years at the Scottish Association for Marine Science (Oban) as a lecturer and reader, studying the biodiversity and biochemistry of marine plants/ algae. He conducted graduate studies at Roscoff and Konstanz for a joint French–German PhD. His research found that iodide serves as an inorganic antioxidant in kelp, the first described from a living system, impacting atmospheric and marine chemistry. A certified scientific diver, Frithjof has worked in the Mediterranean, South Atlantic (Ascension, Falkland Islands), Antarctica, the Arctic and the Arabian Gulf.
Dr. Puja Kumari
School of Biological Sciences, University of Aberdeen, Cruickshank Building, St. Machar Drive, Aberdeen AB24 3UU, Scotland, UK and Department of Chemistry, Marine Biodiscovery Centre, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen AB24 3UE, Scotland, UK
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3270-9722
Puja Kumari (researchgate.net)
Short Biography
Puja Kumari is a Marie Curie (MSCA-IF) postdoctoral research fellow in the School of Biological Sciences, University of Aberdeen. She obtained her PhD in biotechnology from CSIR-Central Salt & Marine Chemicals Research Institute, and Maharaja Krishnakumarsinhji Bhavnagar University, Gujarat, India. She is the former recipient of ARO (Israel), BIDR-Blaustein (Israel) and JSPS (Japan) postdoctoral fellowships. Her research pursuit included algal stress physiology, lipidomics, metabolomics, chemotaxonomy and algal bioprospection leading to a patent (WO2015102021A8, US 10000579B2, EP3089999B1, AU2014374908B2) for the integrated process for obtaining value-added products from seaweeds without any in situ chemical reactions. Currently, she is working on host-pathogen interaction in seaweeds.