Professor Thomas Kiørboe's personal website

Professor
Thomas Kiørboe

National Institute of Aquatic Resources
Technical University of Denmark
Henrik Dams Allé, Building 202
2800 Kongens Lyngby
Denmark
Tel: +45 3588 3401
Cell: +45 4011 1884
E-mail: tk@aqua.dtu.dk

Readers of this home page who are interested in further details of my research, in examining possibilities of visiting the lab (postdoc,visiting scientist), or in obtaining reprints of specific publications are welcome to contact me.

Trait-based ocean ecology
This approach replaces species with individuals defined by key traits linked through trade-offs. Our goal is to identify traits that best represent organism fitness across ocean life forms, to quantify trade-offs, and to generalize findings beyond experimentally studied species.

Functional ecology of plankton
Rather than relying solely on black-box incubation experiments to quantify foraging, this research seeks an understanding of the underlying mechanisms, exploring how feeding currents are generated, and prey is detected, captured, and consumed or rejected across plankton types, from bacteria to larval fish.

Functional diversity of phagotrophic flagellates and of flagella
Flagellates, often treated as a uniform group, are actually among the most phylogenetically and functionally diverse eukaryotes. We are exploring this overlooked functional diversity.

Early eukaryotic evolution
Phylogenetic approaches to construct the eukaryote tree of life typically use molecular and morphological cues from contemporary flagellates. Both have issues. We propose to use ‘function’ as an additional lens.