Aya Tora Foged Permin

Short presentation

My background is in Terrestrial Ecology. My main interests include interactions between organisms, and how these interactions are influenced by the environment.
My PhD research focusses on moss-associated nitrogen-fixing cyanobacteria and in particular, how they are affected by global change. My research includes assessments of moss-associated nitrogen fixation activity under different abiotic conditions (temperature, moisture, nitrogen availability), combined with assessments of the bacterial community on mosses (diversity and composition).

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Education

2015-2017  MSc in Biology, University of Copenhagen, Department of Biology, Section of Terrestrial Ecology, Denmark.

2010-2015  BSc in Biology, University of Copenhagen, Department of Biology, Section of Terrestrial Ecology, Denmark.

Research experience

Since November 2018  PhD-student, Terrestrial Ecology Section, University of Copenhagen. Project tittle: ‘Climatic, ecological, and molecular controls of nitrogen fixation in pristine ecosystems’.

2018  Research Assistant at Center for permafrost (CENPERM), Department of Geosciences and Natural Resource Management (IGN), University of Copenhagen. Field work in Disko Island, Greenland involving vegetation analysis and nitrogen fixation assays (ARA).

2017-2018  Research Assistant at Section for Terrestrial Ecology, Institute of Biology, University of Copenhagen. Involving identification of soil dwelling microarthropods and other laboratory work including preparation of samples, and guidance of students.             

2018  Academic employee, Umeå University, Sweden. The work consisted of reading scientific literature and extract data, to be used in a meta-analysis of climate-change impacts on tree-line dynamics.   

2017  Field Assistant for Professor Anders Michelsen and Assistant professor Kathrin Rousk. Moss focused vegetation analysis, and field measurement of nitrogen fixation in subarctic ecosystem, Abisko, N Sweden.

2014-2017  Student job at the Section for Terrestrial Ecology, Institute of Biology, University of Copenhagen. Involving identification of soil dwelling microarthropods, field sampling and preparation of samples.