Dr. Nils Brenke
engineering & service
Design, Technology & Service
CEO and founder of Brenke EBS
20 years active as marine biologist
25 years experience in the construction of sampling devices
More than 20 expeditions in all oceans of the world as EBS deployment leader
Deepest successful EBS deployment: Northwest Pacific, 13.09.2016, 9584 m
2020 – present
Independent consultant for biological marine technology. Scientific expedition support, project planning, design, construction and development of biological sampling technology

Irminger Basin, 450 m; © N. Brenke, DZMB,
funded by DFG, Project IceAGE I

Denmark Strait, 400 m. © N. Brenke, DZMB,
funded by DFG, Project IceAGE I
2018 – 2020
Technical Director of the emma innovations division of emma technologies GmbH, Kiel, Germany
2007 – 2017
Research associate and project manager at the Senckenberg Research Institute Wilhelmshaven, German Center for Marine Biodiversity Research
2005 – 2007
Research assistant at the Ruhr-University Bochum, Department of Specific Zoology
2005
PhD at the Ruhr-University Bochum, Department of Specific Zoology
to 2000
Studies of Biology at the Christian-Albrechts-University Kiel, Germany.
M. Sc.
Zoology, Biological Oceanography, Physical Oceanography, Fisheries Biology and Paleontology

Atlantic, 4995 m. © N. Brenke, UHH,
funded by BMBF, PTJ 03G0227A, Germany,
Project Vema TRANSECT