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Sebastian Engel   
University of North Carolina at Wilmington
Center for Marine Science
5001 Masonboro Loop Road
Wilmington, NC 28409
engels@uncwil.edu

Sebastian Engel was born Feburary 21, 1974, in Berlin, Germany. After spending much of his childhood in Germany and South America, he moved to New Jersey when he was 12 years old. He received his high school diploma and Abitur (German high school degree) from the German School of New York, White Plains, New York. Subsequently, Sebastian attended Drew University in Madison, New Jersey, and received his BA with a major in biology, and minors in chemistry and environmental studies. Fascinated with marine biology and chemical ecology he began his masters studies under Dr. J.R. Pawlik at the University of North Carolina at Wilmington. Working through UNCW's Center for Marine Science and the NOAA/National Undersea Research Center, in Key Largo, Florida, he studied allelochemical interactions between Caribbean sponges. Last year, Sebastian received his MS in Marine Biology and is currently Dr. Pawlik's research technician.






  

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