since 05/2024 - I work full-time as projectcordinator NFDI4Earth, measure 3.4 international networking and embedding at GFZ, Helmholz Geoscience Center in Potsdam
since 01/2024 - I continue to be affiliated with ZMT as guest scientist to submit peer-review data publications from resulting DFG project.
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Most recent project:
1/07/2020 - 31/12/2023 Main project investigator of research grant by German Research Foundation (DFG), SYMBIO-AID "The role of diatom endosymbionts on the adaptation potential of reef calcifiers"
Selected highest cited publications (out of > 20 total):
Webster, N.S., Negri, A.P., Botté, E.S., Laffy, E.S., Flores, F., Noonan, S., Schmidt, C., Uticke S. (2016) Host-associated coral reef microbes respond to the cumulative pressures of ocean warming and ocean acidification
Schmidt, C., Heinz, P., Kucera, M., Uthicke, S. (2011) Temperature‐induced stress leads to bleaching in larger benthic foraminifera hosting endosymbiotic diatoms
Takagi, H., Kimoto, K., Fujiki, T., Saito, H., Schmidt, C., Kucera, M., Moriya, K. (2019) Characterizing photosymbiosis in modern planktonic foraminifera
Uthicke, S., Vogel, N., Doyle, J., Schmidt, C., Humphrey, C. (2012) Interactive effects of climate change and eutrophication on the dinoflagellate-bearing benthic foraminifer Marginopora vertebralis
Nettersheim, B.J., Brocks, J.J., Schwelm, A., Hope, J.M., Not, F., Lomas, M., Schmidt C., Schiebel, R., Nowack, E.C.M., De Deckker, P., Pawlowski, J., Bowser, S.S., Bobrovskiy, I. Zonneveld, K., Kucera, M. Stuhr, M., Hallmann C. (2019) Putative sponge biomarkers in unicellular Rhizaria question an early rise of animals
Schmidt, C., Morard, R., Almogi-Labin, A., Weinmann, A.E., Titelboim, D., Abramovich, S. Kucera, M. (2015) Recent invasion of the symbiont-bearing foraminifera Pararotalia into the Eastern Mediterranean facilitated by the ongoing warming trend
Schmidt, C., Kucera, M., Uthicke, S. (2014) Combined effects of warming and ocean acidification on coral reef Foraminifera Marginopora vertebralis and Heterostegina depressa
Schmidt, C., Titelboim, D., Brandt, J., Herut, B., Abramovich, S., Almogi-Labin, A., Kucera, M. (2016) Extremely heat tolerant photo-symbiosis in a shallow marine benthic foraminifera