studies in biology at the University of Bremen and then returned to the AWI and especially to the labs. Here, the supervision of our microalgal stock culture collection, the realization of lab experiments on [...] content are also part of the spectrum of my tasks in the group, besides the preparation of expeditions and ordering logistics. "What will happen tomorrow?" is an important question for me, not just regarding [...] many consequences on planetary scales; however, the origins of these consequences are to be sought on the molecular scale, i.e., within the cells of the organisms. Being a molecular biologist, photosynthesis