From 1987 to 1992 Meyer read biology, focusing on Marine biology and oceanography, at Giessen University and at the University of Kiel.[1] In 1996 she received her PhD, titled "Feeding strategies of the calanoid copepods in two different tropicalised areas in the Baltic Sea (Pomeranian Bay, Gotland Sea)", at the University of Rostock.[1] In 2010 she completed a postdoc at the University Bremen, focusing on ecophysiological studies on the overwintering of Antarctic krill (Euphausia superba).[1][2] Shen then completed a science management course in 2011 at the Malik Management School, Switzerland.[1]
From 1992 to 1996 and again during 1998 Meyer was a research associate at the Leibniz Institute for Baltic Sea Research, Germany.[4][5] In 1997 she completed a one-year research associate position at the Plymouth Marine Laboratory in Plymouth (UK), funded by a prestigious EU Marie Curie postdoc fellowship.[1][6][7] Since 1999 she has been a research associate at the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research (AWI), within the Polar Biological Oceanography section.[8] Meyer is the current head of the Ecophysiology of pelagic key species working group at AWI,[9] while also heading the international and collaborative project Helmholtz Virtual Institute PolarTime: Biological rhythms and clocks in polar pelagic invertebrates.[10][11] She has travelled to the Southern Ocean on a number of occasions[12][13][14] on the RV Aurora Australis,[11][15] and the RV Polarstern.[16][17]
From 2009–2011 Meyer collaborated with Prof. Kramer and Dr M. Teschke in the Chronobiology Research Group at the Charité hospital and University of Medicine, Berlin,[18] was an active member of the Lazarev Sea Krill Study (LAKRIS), the German contribution to Southern Ocean Global Ocean Ecosystems Dynamics (SO-GLOBEC) from 2005-2008[19] and served as a board member on the Antarctic Climate and Ecosystems Cooperative Research Centre (ACE CRC).[20] Meyer currently serves on the senate commission on oceanography at the German Research Foundation (DFG)[21] and is an associate member of SO-eEOV WG (designing a biological observing system in the Southern Ocean to inform global ocean observing of marine ecosystems).[22]
Meyer holds a professorship at the University of Oldenburg (Germany),[23][24] where she heads a project at the Institute for Chemistry and Biology of the Oceans (ICBM) focusing on the biodiversity and biological processes of the polar oceans.[25][26][27]
Awards and honors
Meyer was awarded the EU Marie Curie postdoc fellowship in 1997 to work in the Zooplankton group at the Plymouth Marine Laboratory.[28]
^"Zweijahresbericht" [Biennial Report] (PDF). io-warnemuende.de. Leibniz-Institutes für Ostseeforschung Warnemünde. 2000. Archived from the original(PDF) on 2017-12-22.
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