Dr. Dennis Barnekow

Areas of Expertise: Biology, Biology-Didactics, Environmental Education

Dr.Barnekow has a wide range of experience with regard to the design and evaluation of various educational institutions with a natural history background.He also has an extensive portfolio of knowledge in the context of supervising school and extracurricular theses. Accordingly, he would very much like to contribute to the success of the work of the Aquarium Research Foundation as part of its advisory board activities.

Professional Background

From 1989 he studied biology and sport in Kiel and Flensburg to become a teacher. The first state examination was passed in 1994. He then spent his time as a trainee teacher in the Hamburg area and completed the second state examination in 1996. In 2004 he finished his doctoral thesis on a marine biological nature conservation topic: “Is the creation of an artificial stone reef on soft ground in the Flensburg Fjord a sensible nature conservation measure? Conclusions from the settlement sequence of the first two years ”. After four years in the school service, Dr. Barnekow changed to the European University of Flensburg. For more than 20 years he trained student teachers in the field of biology there. For years he has also been the head of the extracurricular university facility Baltic Sea Laboratory and director of the Environmental Education Center of the European University of Flensburg.

Prof. Dr. Heinz-Dieter Franke

Areas of Expertise: Zoology, Ecology, Marine Biology

Prof. Franke researched for 45 years on fundamental and applied problems in the development and ecology of marine invertebrates. He supports the Aquarium Research Foundation with his extensive professional expertise.

Professional Background

Until his retirement in 2015, he taught zoology and ecology at the Freie Universitaet of Berlin. At the Biologische Anstalt Helgoland (Biological Institute Helgoland) / the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research, Prof. Franke led a working group for almost 30 years. His laboratory and field research focused on the development cycles of polychaetes and crustaceans, changes in the species diversity in the North Sea due to the climate change, and protection and restoration projects for the Helgoland lobster.

Prof. Dr. Matthias Möbus

Areas of Expertise: Business and Economics

Matthias Möbus is one of those people who consider the responsible and sustainable use of natural resources to be an existential question of survival and act accordingly. In addition to his work as professor and that as management consultant, he thankfully makes his extensive expertise available for the successful work of the Aquarium Research Foundation.

Professional Background

Matthias Möbus began his professional career as a trainee as a wholesale and foreign trade merchant. Then followed positions as banker, banking specialist and several years of management at a private bank before he began studying economics at the University of Hamburg and graduated there as a Dr. rer. pol. Due to his subsequent self-employment as a management consultant, he was appointed professor at the Kiel University of Applied Sciences in 2004.