Uta Brandt is team leader for sensors, instruments and equipment in the section Research Infrastructure and has been working as an instrument engineer at NIVA since 2008. She works as a project manager in instrumentation projects. She has experience with instrumentation in fresh and seawater, custom made systems with different types of sensors, telemetry, autonomous power supply, field operation of instruments, field data acquisition, electronics and quality assurance. Brandt holds the degree “Diplom-Ingenieur (FH)” in Electrical engineering, University of Applied Sciences Hamburg, Germany -1994.