OceanExpert ID : 27751
Dr Christopher Nicolai ROTERMAN
Teaching Fellow in Marine Biology
School of Biological Sciences
University House
Winston Churchill Avenue
Portsmouth
Hampshire
PO1 2UP
United Kingdom
Nationality
Sweden
United States of America
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Telephone
+44 7515113230
ORCID :
christopherroterman
DPhil
Teaching/Education
Research
Biological Oceanography, Marine Ecology
Deep-sea ecologist and Teaching Fellow in Marine Biology.
I'm interested in understanding how deep-sea fauna have evolved across a range of habitats and how their populations persist in this little-explored realm. The deep sea, which furnishes us with food, helps sequester atmospheric carbon and buffers our climate, faces the encroachment of human activity. By understanding better how deep-sea ecosystems function, deep-sea ecologists hope to inform conservation and resource management strategies and to ensure the health of this hidden world for future generations.
Biography
- Teaching Fellow, Marine Biology, University of Portsmouth, 2021
- PTHP Lecturer, University of Portsmouth, 2021
- Associate Researcher, University of Oxford, 2019 – 2021
- Postdoctoral Research Assistant, University of Oxford, 2016 – 2019
- Research Assistant, DeepSeas Group, National Oceanography Centre, Southampton, 2014
- DPhil Zoology, University of Oxford, 2009 – 2014
- Field Assistant, SERPENT project, National Oceanography Centre, Southampton, 2008
- MSc Oceanography, University of Southampton, 2007 – 2008
- BA Biological Sciences, University of Oxford, 1998 – 2001
Research Interests
- Deep-sea ecology
- Deep-sea chemosynthetic ecosystems
- Hydrothermal vent fauna
- Yeti Crabs
- Evolution in the deep sea
- Population genetics/genomics
- Phylogeography
- Phylogenetics/phylogenomic
- Marine systematics
- Marine Biogeography
- Transcriptomics
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