Prof. Wiltshire is the Vice-Director of the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research, Head of the Wadden Sea Stationand the Biologische Anstalt Helgoland, home of the NF-POGO Centre of Excellence in Observational Oceanography (2013 onwards). Dr. Wiltshire is also Professor for Biogeomicrobiology of Jacobs University Bremen. Her research interests are induction of microalgal morphological variation, interactions of algae and predators, pigments in microalgae, multispectral fluorescence, detection of microalgae, microphytobenthos and the Helgoland Foodweb Project. Dr Wiltshire was present at the 2013 NANO Meeting in Berlin.