Antje Boetius
Antje Boetius ( born March 5, 1967 in Frankfurt am Main ) is a German marine biologist and professor at the University of Bremen.
Life and work
From 1986 to 1992 Boetius completed a graduate studies in biology at the University of Hamburg. From 1989 to 1991 she studied Biological Oceanography at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography. For her thesis, which she wrote about deep-sea bacteria, they spent three months on various research vessels in the Pacific and the Atlantic.
Her dissertation on " microbial conversion processes in the deep sea of the Arctic" wrote Boetius 1996 at the University of Bremen. From 1996 to 1999 she was involved in the Baltic Sea Research Institute on a postdoctoral project dealt with the deep sea of the Indian Ocean. In 1999 she moved to the Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology in Bremen, where the study of submarine gas sources of its key research areas was. Another main topic of Boethius represents the microbiology of the methane conversion in the sea
2001 Boetius assistant professor at the Jacobs University Bremen. In addition, she received a position as a Research Associate at the Alfred Wegener Institute in the Department of Geology and worked as a director of various collaborative projects in Germany and the European Union in the fields of microbiology and biogeochemistry of methane in the sea. In 2003, she received a chair as an adjunct professor at the Jacobs University Bremen. In the same year she became head of the research group " Microbial Habitat " at the Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology, which deals with the study of various deep-sea ecosystems, methane biogeochemistry, the in situ microbial biodiversity and marine technology. In 2006, this research group demonstrated another form of methane -eating microorganism after Boetius had discovered in 2000 along with other scientists from the Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology in the first " methane eaters".
Antje Boetius 2004 taught as a visiting professor at the University Pierre and Marie Curie in Paris. From June to November 2008, she was a professor of microbiology at Jacobs University. Since March 2009 she has been Professor of Geomicrobiology in the Department of Geosciences at the University of Bremen.
Boetius is a member of various international institutions, including IFREMER, CNRS, DIVERSITAS and in programs for biodiversity of the ocean ( Census of Marine Life, CHESS, ICOMM ) involved. She is an editor and reviewer for several international journals of marine research and instructor at the Graduate School of Excellence initiative " Global Change in the Marine Realm" ( GLOMAR ) and at the Max Planck Research School of Marine Microbiology ( MarMic ).
Boethius has participated in some 40 marine biological exploration expeditions and was the director of several international research trips. The study of deep-sea ecology was this made with special diving robots.
In 2011 she was awarded by the European Research funding in the amount of 3.4 million Euro project " ABYSS - Assessment of bacterial life and matter cycling in deep - sea surface sediments ". ( Investigations of the seabed in the Arctic deep sea and its bacterial world). The project is designed to five years and will start in 2012. She is a member of the Mainz Academy of Sciences and Literature.
She is the granddaughter of Lakehurst survivors Eduard Boëtius and daughter of writer Henning Boëtius.
Awards and Affiliations
- 2009: Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
- Since 2009: member of the Leopoldina