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Ecology and Evolution
Denmark
2026

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Ecology and Evolution

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8

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Ecology and Evolution in Denmark Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Ecology and Evolution in Denmark Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Ecology and Evolution in Denmark Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Ecology and Evolution in Denmark Leader Award

Overview

Thomas Kiørboe is affiliated with the Technical University of Denmark in Denmark and has contributed extensively to research in environmental science and earth and planetary sciences. Their work spans several subfields including oceanography, ecology, molecular biology, condensed matter physics, and environmental chemistry.

The primary focus of their research centers around marine and coastal ecosystems, micro and nano robotics, protist diversity and phylogeny, microbial community ecology and physiology, diatoms and algae research, marine toxins and detection methods, as well as marine biology and ecology research.

Thomas Kiørboe has published numerous papers, including the following notable works:

  • The 2020 motile active matter roadmap, 2020, Journal of Physics Condensed Matter
  • Machine learning techniques to characterize functional traits of plankton from image data, 2022, Limnology and Oceanography
  • Model estimates of metazoans' contributions to the biological carbon pump, 2023, Biogeosciences
  • Linking Plankton Size Spectra and Community Composition to Carbon Export and Its Efficiency, 2022, Global Biogeochemical Cycles
  • Heterotrophic eukaryotes show a slow-fast continuum, not a gleaner-exploiter trade-off, 2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Their frequent coauthors include:

  • Fredrik Ryderheim
  • Anders Andersen
  • Ken H. Andersen
  • André Visser
  • Seyed Saeed Asadzadeh

Publication venues most commonly featuring their work include:

  • Limnology and Oceanography
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Physical Review Fluids

Best Publications

  • Food size spectra, ingestion and growth of the copepodAcartia tonsa during development: Implications for determination of copepod production

    U. Berggreen;B. Hansen;T. Kiørboe

  • Turbulence, Phytoplankton Cell Size, and the Structure of Pelagic Food Webs

    T. Kiørboe

  • Bioenergetics of the planktonic copepod Acartia tonsa: relation between feeding, egg production and respiration, and composition of specific dynamic action

    T. Kiørboe;F. Møhlenberg;K. Hamburger

  • How zooplankton feed: mechanisms, traits and trade‐offs

    Thomas Kiørboe

  • Trait-based approaches to zooplankton communities

    Elena Litchman;Elena Litchman;Mark D. Ohman;Thomas Kiørboe

  • The 2020 motile active matter roadmap

    Gerhard Gompper;Roland G Winkler;Thomas Speck;Alexandre Solon

  • A Mechanistic Approach to Plankton Ecology

    Thomas Kiørboe

  • Mortality of marine planktonic copepods: global rates and patterns

    A.G. Hirst;Thomas Kiørboe

  • Particle selection in suspension-feeding bivalves

    Thomas Kiørboe;F. Møhlenberg

  • The biogeography of marine plankton traits.

    Andrew D. Barton;Andrew D. Barton;Andrew J. Pershing;Elena Litchman;Elena Litchman;Nicholas R. Record;Nicholas R. Record

  • Planktivorous feeding in calm and turbulent environments, with emphasis on copepods

    Thomas Kiørboe;Enric Saiz

  • Coagulation efficiency and aggregate formation in marine phytoplankton

    T. Kiørboe;K. P. Andersen;H. G. Dam

  • Phytoplankton aggregate formation: observations of patterns and mechanisms of cell sticking and the significance of exopolymeric material

    Thomas Kiørboe;Jørgen L.S. Hansen

  • Possible Quorum Sensing in Marine Snow Bacteria: Production of Acylated Homoserine Lactones by Roseobacter Strains Isolated from Marine Snow

    Lone Gram;Hans-Peter Grossart;Andrea Schlingloff;Thomas Kiørboe

  • Marine snow, organic solute plumes, and optimal chemosensory behavior of bacteria

    Thomas Kiørboe;George A. Jackson

  • Prey switching behaviour in the planktonic copepod Acartia tonsa

    Thomas Kiørboe;Enric Saiz;Markku Viitasalo

  • Formation and fate of marine snow: small-scale processes with large- scale implications

    Thomas Kiørboe

  • Predator and prey perception in copepods due to hydromechanical signals

    Thomas Kiørboe;André W. Visser

  • Characteristic Sizes of Life in the Oceans, from Bacteria to Whales*

    K. H. Andersen;T. Berge;R. J. Goncalves;M. Hartvig;M. Hartvig;M. Hartvig

  • Egg production, growth and development of the cyclopoid copepod Oithona similis

    Marina Sabatini;Thomas Kiørboe

  • Encounter rates and swimming behavior of pause‐travel and cruise larval fish predators in calm and turbulent laboratory environments

    Brian R. MacKenzie;Thomas Kiørboe

Frequent Co-Authors

André W. Visser
André W. Visser Technical University of Denmark
Ken Haste Andersen
Ken Haste Andersen Technical University of Denmark
Andrew G. Hirst
Andrew G. Hirst University of Liverpool
Hans-Peter Grossart
Hans-Peter Grossart University of Potsdam
Kam W. Tang
Kam W. Tang Swansea University
Jens Honore Walther
Jens Honore Walther Technical University of Denmark
Peter Tiselius
Peter Tiselius University of Gothenburg
Fabien Lombard
Fabien Lombard Villefranche Oceanographic Laboratory
Helle Ploug
Helle Ploug University of Gothenburg
Enric Saiz
Enric Saiz Spanish National Research Council

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