From 2014-2017, Anja Kamp was an AIAS-COFUND (Marie Curie) fellow. She received her PhD in natural sciences at the Leibniz University of Hannover in 2007 and did her post-doctoral research mainly at the Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology in Bremen, Germany. She is a marine biologist and her research focuses on eco-physiology of novel, nitrate-respiring microbes.