Brenke EBS

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

EBS-photo-sled-MARK-X-Seabass-cf-Sebastes-marinus-450-meters-water-depth-Irminger-Basin
EBS photo sled "cf. Sebastes marinus";
Irminger Basin, 450 m; © N. Brenke, DZMB,
funded by DFG, Project IceAGE I
EBS-photo-sled-MARK-X-sponges-tunicates-seaurchins-feather-stars-inhabit-rocks-400-m-water-depth-Denmark-Strait-North-Atlantic-DZMB-funded-by-DFG-Project-IceAGE
EBS photo sled "Heavy rocks";
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

EBS-video-sled-manganese-nodules-Atlantic-deep-sea-4995m
EBS video sled "manganese nodules";
Atlantic, 4995 m. © N. Brenke, UHH,
funded by BMBF, PTJ 03G0227A, Germany,
Project Vema TRANSECT