Eva Sonnenschein

Professor in Biosciences at Swansea University | Group leader of the Marine Microbial Ecology Research Group | Lead of Biosciences’ Natural Products and Environmental Resources Theme

Swansea, Wales, United Kingdom

About

Creative, solution-oriented marine microbiologist in biodiscovery and biotechnology of novel bioactive molecules, enzymes, microorganisms and microbial consortia

Experience

  • Swansea University / Prifysgol Abertawe (Swansea, Wales, United Kingdom)
    • Professor
      Sep 2025 - Present · 10 mos

    • Associate Professor
      Sep 2022 - Aug 2025 · 3 yrs

  • DTU - Technical University of Denmark (Kgs. Lyngby, Denmark)
    • Senior Researcher
      Nov 2019 - Jun 2022 · 2 yrs 8 mos

    • Assistant Professor
      Oct 2017 - Oct 2019 · 2 yrs 1 mo

      Bioremediation of anthropogenic pollutants including plastic Biocontrol in aquaculture systems

    • Postdoctoral Fellow
      Aug 2013 - Sep 2017 · 4 yrs 2 mos

      Cultivation and extraction of marine bacteria and antibacterial bioactivity assays for the natural product discovery pipeline of the FP7 project PharmaSea (http://www.pharma-sea.eu/) Improving cultivation of environmental bacteria for biotechnological applications within the FP7 project MaCuMBA (http://www.macumbaproject.eu/) Elucidation of interspecies communication pathways between marine microbes

  • Postdoctoral Fellow at UC San Diego
    Apr 2011 - Jun 2013 · 2 yrs 3 mos

    Biochemical analysis of activators in fatty acid biosynthesis and secondary metabolism Metabolic engineering of microalgae towards crop protection in biofuel production

  • Internship at DTU Aqua
    Aug 2006 - Oct 2006 · 3 mos

    Evaluation of flow cytometer

  • Research Assistant at Institute of Polar Ecology
    2005 - 2006 · 1 yr