Dr. Timo Rittweg has been awarded the €5,000 Dissertation Prize of the “Forschungsstiftung Ostsee”. His doctoral research provides important new insights into the ecology and biodiversity of coastal pike in the brackish waters of the southern Baltic Sea. Rittweg completed his PhD at the Albrecht Daniel Thaer Institute of Humboldt‑Universität zu Berlin, supervised by Prof. Robert Arlinghaus, and currently works as a researcher at the Thünen Institute.
Read the full official press release by the German Oceanographic Museum here.
(Fotografin: Anke Neumeister / Deutsches Meeresmuseum)