Farooq Azam#
| Membership Number: | 5011 |
| Membership type: | FOREIGN |
| Section: | ECOLOGY AND EVOLUTION |
| Elected: | 2019 |
| Main Country of Residence: | UNITED STATES |
| Homepage(s): | http://azamlab.eng.ucsd.edu |
Present and Previous Positions
- 1996 - present Professor/Distinguished Professor, University of California San Diego, Scripps Institution of Oceanography
- 1988 - 1996 Professor-in-Residence, University of California San Diego, Scripps Institution of Oceanography
- 1983 - 1988 Research Biologist , University of California San Diego, Scripps Institution of Oceanography
- 1977 - 1983 Associate Research Biologist, University of California San Diego, Scripps Institution of Oceanography
- 1973 - 1977 Assistant Research Biologist, University of California San Diego, Scripps Institution of Oceanography
Fields of Scholarship
- Marine microbial ecology
- Coral reef microbiology
- Microbial biogeochemistry
- Microbial regulation of the ocean carbon cycle
- Microbial structuring of marine ecosystems
- Marine phage
Honours and Awards
- 2015 Elected Fellow American Academy of Arts and Sciences
- 2013 D C White Research and Mentoring Award, American Soc. Microbiology
- 2009 David Packard Distinguished Lecturer, MBARI
- 2009 Okubo Distinguished Scholar, Stony Brook University
- 2006 John Martin Award (shared; for an influential paper), ASLO
- 2004 Distinguished Professor, UCSD, Scripps Institution
- 2004 Tiedje Award, International Society for Microbial Ecology
- 2004 Doctor of Philosophy, honoris causa, Linnaeus University, Sweden
- 2004 Elected Fellow American Academy of Microbiology
- 2002 ISI Highly Cited Researcher
- 1997 C. B. Van Niel Memorial Lecture, Stanford University
- 1996 Excellence in Research Award, UCSD
- 1995 G. Evelyn Hutchinson Medal, ASLO
- 1984 Rosenstiel Medal in Oceanographic Sciences
