Curriculum Vitae Prof. Dr. Antje Boetius
Name: Antje Boetius Born: 5 March 1967 Photo: AWI / Kerstin Rolfes Major scientific interests: Deep-Sea Ecology, Microbial Biodiversity
Academic and Professional Career since 2017 Director of the Alfred Wegener Institute (AWI), Helmholtz-Zentrum für Polar und Meeresforschung, Bremerhaven, Germany
2012 - 2018 Vice Director, MARUM Cluster of Excellence, University of Bremen, Germany since 2009 Professor of Geomicrobiology, University of Bremen, Germany since 2008 Leader of the HGF-MPG Joint Research Group on Deep Sea Ecology and Technology, Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz-Zentrum für Polar und Meeresforschung, Bremerhaven, Germany
2003 - 2008 Leader of the “Microbial Habitat” Group, Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology Bremen, Germany
2001 - 2008 Professor, International University Bremen (now: Jacobs University Bremen), Germany, Research associate, Alfred Wegener Institute (AWI), Helmholtz-Zentrum für Polar und Meeresforschung, Bremerhaven, Germany
1999 - 2001 Research associate (Postdoc), Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology Bremen, Germany
1996 - 1999 Research associate (Postdoc), Institute for Baltic Sea Research, Warnemünde
1996 Doctorate in Biology, University of Bremen, Germany
1993 - 1996 Research associate (PhD), Alfred Wegener Institute (AWI), Helmholtz-Zentrum für Polar und Meeresforschung, Bremerhaven, Germany
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1 1989 - 1990 Lab assistant, Scripps Institution of Oceanography San Diego in La Jolla, University of California, USA
1986 - 1992 Diploma in Biology, University of Hamburg, Germany
Functions in Scientific Societies and Committees (Selection)
2014 - 2020 Chair of the Steering Committee of Wissenschaft im Dialog (WiD) since 2015 Member, Senate of the German Research Foundation (DFG)
2014 - 2016 Chair of the Scientific Commission, German Council of Science and Humanities (Wissenschaftsrat) since 2014 Member, Senate of the Leibniz Association since 2012 Vice Director of the MARUM Cluster of Excellence, University of Bremen
2010 - 2016 Member, Scientific Commission, German Council of Science and Humanities (Wissenschaftsrat)
Project coordination, Membership in collaborative research projects (Selection)
2015 - 2019 EU project “AtlantOS – Towards an integrated All-Atlantic Ocean Observing System”, supported by the European Commission
2015 - 2017 “Ecological Aspects of Deep Sea Mining, Joint Programming Initiative Healthy and Productive Seas and Oceans – JPI Oceans”
2014 - 2020 FRAM Frontiers in Arctic Marine Monitoring – HGF Research Infrastructure, Helmholtz Association of German Research Centers (HGF)
2013 - 2018 Helmholtz Alliance „Robotic Exploration of Extreme Environments – ROBEX“, Helmholtz Association of German Research Centers (HGF)
2012 - 2017 ERC Advanced Grant “ABYSS (Assessment of Bacterial Life and Matter Cycling in Deep-Sea Surface Sediments)”
2009 - 2018 Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz program, German Research Foundation (DFG)
2009 - 2018 MARUM Cluster of Excellence, University of Bremen, Germany
2009 - 2015 BMBF project „BIOACID – Biological Impacts of Ocean Acidification“, supported by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF)
2009 - 2010 DFG MERIAN expedition
2007 - 2008 DFG METEOR expedition
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2 Honours and Awarded Memberships (Selection) since 2021 Foreign Member of the Class for Biosciences, Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
2020 Mercator-Professur, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany
2019 Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
2019 Robert L. and Bettie P. Cody Award in ocean sciences
2019 Leibniz-Ring-Hannover
2018 Deutscher Umweltpreis, Deutsche Bundesstiftung Umwelt (DBU)
2018 Communicator Award, Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation)
2017 Copernicus Medal
2017 Carl Friedrich Gauß Medal since 2016 Member of the European Academy of Sciences since 2015 Member of the European Academy of Microbiology (EAM)
2014 Hector Wissenschaftspreis, Hector Fellow
2013 International Ecology Institute Prize (ECI)
2012 Heinrich-Hertz guest professor, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) since 2011 Member of the Academy of Sciences and Literature Mainz since 2010 External Scientific Member of the Max Planck Society since 2009 Member of the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina
2009 Distinguished Professor, Jacobs University Bremen, Germany
2009 Gottfried-Wilhelm-Leibniz Prize of the DFG
2006 Medaille de la Societé d’Oceanographie de France
1986 - 1989 Stipend, “Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes”
Major Scientific Interests
Deep-Sea Ecology, Pelago-benthic coupling in Polar Seas, Methane biogeochemistry, Ecology of chemosynthetic and extreme environments, Microbial biodiversity, Microbial processes of early diagenesis in deep-sea sediments, Effects of pressure and temperature on microbial processes
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