Biography

Joost received a B.Sc. from HAS Den Bosch University before completing a B.S. Thesis in Biology and Plant Pathology from Rutgers University in 2004. He then completed a MSc at Wageningen University studying herbivory on coral reefs in Bonaire. His Ph.D. from the University of Amsterdam was focused on the role of nutrient limitation in driving patterns of primary production on Caribbean coral reefs. Joost joined the Burkepile Lab in 2016 as a postdoctoral researcher as part of a large collaborative project, Project IRON, focusing on the differential effects of iron limitation on Pacific and Caribbean coral reefs.

Research Area

Joost was a post-doc in the lab in 2017 working on the effects of nitrogen, phosphorus and iron on the productivity of benthic algae as part of a collaboration consisting of the University of California, Santa Barbara (USA), the CRIOBE (France), the Max Planck Institutes in Bremen and Oldenburg (both Germany), the University of Amsterdam (the Netherlands), and l’Université des Antilles et de la Guyane (Guadeloupe). He is the Co-Founder and CEO of planblue a company developing new technology to map the ocean floor.