Soeren Ahmerkamp
Researcher
The Leibniz Institute for Baltic Sea Research Warnemünde, Rostock, Germany
Biography
Soeren Ahmerkamp is a marine biogeochemist at the Leibniz Institute for Baltic Sea Research Warnemünde. His work illuminates the hidden interplay between transport dynamics and microbial processes in coastal seas. Using a blend of numerical modeling, advanced field observatories like "LanceALot," and lab experiments including flow-through reactors, microfluidics, and imaging, he explores how microbes shape carbon and nitrogen cycles in subtidal sandy sediments, beaches, marine aggregates, and coral surfaces.
His research is central to projects such as the “Shallow Water Processes and Transitions to the Baltic Scale” and the “Perspectives of Coastal Seas” programme (2024-2033). Ahmerkamp also co-leads the Novo Nordisk–funded MATIC project, which investigates multiscale coral resilience. A leading author on innovative studies—such as the 2024 development of luminescence imaging for microbial lifetimes in ACS Sensors—his contributions are widely cited (h-index 23).
