Nicole Mary Swer

Expertise

• Ecosystem service assessments and valuation
• Environmental policy assessments
• Nature-based solutions
• Coastal protection and management strategies

Interests

My interests lie in the assessment and application of ecosystem services to support coastal protection and management strategies. My current research focuses on the application of model-based methods to assess ecosystem services in coastal lagoons.

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Career

2025-Current: Scientist, Institute of Baltic Sea Research, Warnemuende, Germany

2024: Intern and research assistant, Institute of Baltic Sea Research, Warnemuende, Germany

2022-2023: Research assistant, Technical University Dresden, Germany

Education

10/2025: Master's in Ecosystem Services (two-year program), Technische Universität Dresden, Germany

07/2022: Bachelor's in Biotechnology (three-year program), Manipal University, India

Publications

2025

• Schernewski, G., T. Neumann, S. Piehl and N. M. Swer (2025). Ecosystem-Model-Based Valuation of Ecosystem Services in a Baltic Lagoon: Long-Term Human Technical Interventions and Short-Term Variability. Environments 12: 35, doi: 10.3390/environments12020035

2022

• Swer, N.M., Venkidesh, B., Murali, T.S. et al. Gut microbiota-derived metabolites and their importance in neurological disorders. Mol Biol Rep 50, 1663–1675 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11033-022-08038-0