Antje Boetius#
| Membership Number: | 4841 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | EARTH & COSMIC SCIENCES |
| Elected: | 2018 |
| Main Country of Residence: | GERMANY |
| Homepage(s): | http://www.awi.de |
Present and Previous Positions
- Since November 2017 Director of the AWI Helmholtz Center
- Since November 2012 Vice Director of the MARUM Cluster of Excellence, University of Bremen
- Since May 2010 External Scientific Member of the Max Planck Society
- Since March 2009 Professor of Geomicrobiology, University of Bremen
- Since December 2008 Leader of the HGF-MPG Joint Research Group on Deep Sea Ecology and Technology, AWI
- June 2008 - Dec 2008 Full Professor of Microbiology Jacobs University Bremen
- Nov 2003-Nov 2008 Leader of the “Microbial habitat” group, MPI Bremen; Research on biogeochemistry
- Sep 2003 - June 2008 Associate Professor of Microbiology, Jacobs University Bremen
- Sep 2001 - Sep 2003 Assistant Professor of Microbiology, International University Bremen
- Feb 2001 - Oct 2003 Researcher AWI for Polar and Marine Research, Bremerhaven
Fields of Scholarship
- Biological oceanography
- Biogeochemistry
- Microbial ecology
- Geobiology
- Polar research
Honours and Awards
- 2018 Vernadsky Medal of the EGU
- 2017 Copernicus Medal
- 2017 Gauss Medal, Braunschweigische Wissenschaftliche Gesellschaft
- 2017 Elected Member of the European Academy of Sciences
- 2016 Endowed Biogeochemistry Lecture of the Geochemical Society
- 2015 Elected Member of the EAM – European Academy of Microbiology
- 2015 Fellow of the American Academy of Microbiology
- 2014 Excellence Professorship of the Prof.-Dr.-Werner-Petersen-Foundation
- 2014 Gustav-Steinmann-Medal of the Geological Union e.V. Germany
- 2014 Elected Fellow of the American Geophysical Union AGU
- 2014 Hector Fellowship
- 2013 ECI Ecology Prize
- 2011 European Research Council Advanced Investigator Grant “Abyss”
- 2011 Elected Member of the Academy of Sciences and Literature Mainz
- 2010 External Scientific Member of the Max Planck Society
- 2009 Elected Member of the National Academy Leopoldina (Section Geology)
- 2009 Gottfried-Wilhelm-Leibniz Prize of the DFG
- 2006 Medaille de la Societe d’Oceanographie de France
