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Head of Habitat Group and HGF-MPG Group for Deep Sea Ecology
and Technology, Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology,
Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research in
the Helmholtz Association, Professor of Geomicrobiology, University
of Bremen, Bremen, Germany
Antje Boetius is Professor of Geomicrobiology at the University
Bremen, and leader of a joint research group on Deep Sea Ecology
and Technology of the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and
Marine Research and the Max Planck Institute of Marine Microbiology.
She has studied Biology and Biological Oceanography at the
University of Hamburg and Scripps Institution of Oceanography.
Her PhD thesis dealt with deep-sea microbiology and biogeochemistry.
She became Professor for Microbiology in 2001 at the Jacobs
University in Bremen, and was Group leader at the Max Planck
Institute for Marine Microbiology from 2003-2008. Antje Boetius
is an expert of biological oceanography, deep-sea biology,
microbial ecology and biogeochemistry of the ocean. She works
on polar seas, on chemosynthetic ecosystems and other extreme
habitats of the ocean. Antje Boetius has lead or participated
in over 40 expeditions, and she has coordinated many national
and international research programs. Her group of 45 scientists
and technicians studies the physical, chemical, geological,
and biological characteristics of microbial habitats. The
group develops and uses novel technologies and methods for
the study of life at the bottom of the ocean. Antje Boetius
and her team are renowned for their contributions on the diversity
and function of life associated with gas hydrates, and for
new insights into the structure, function and dynamics of
microbial communities of the ocean floor. Future plans of
the group include the exploration of Arctic deep-sea life
under the ice, and the long-term observation of the effects
of global warming on polar ecosystems as well as on hypoxic
aquatic ecosystems. Antje Boetius is a member of the German
National Committee for Global Change Research, and of the
Commission of the DFG Senate for Oceanography. She is on the
advisory board of many international and national research
programmes, marine research institutes and museums. Antje
Boetius has been awarded with the Medaille de la Societe d’Oceanographie
de France, the Gottfried-Wilhelm-Leibniz Prize of the DFG
and has been elected to the German National Academy Leopoldina
(Section Geology), the Academy of Sciences and Literature
Mainz. She is an external scientific member of the Max Planck
Society and a member of the German Science Council.
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