Maria is a postdoctoral researcher in the Marine Biological Section, University of Copenhagen, Helsingør, Denmark. Maria finished her Master's degree in Chemistry at the University of Graz and Graz University of Technology, Graz, Austria and her PhD degree in Biology at the University of Copenhagen.
Maria's main research focus are optical chemical sensors, for various analytes (including oxygen, pH and hydrogen peroxide), which she develops and applies on different complex biological samples.