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Antje Boetius Elected to European Academy of Sciences
Prof. Antje Boetius
The Boetius group uses novel technologies and methods for the study of life at the bottom of the ocean. Current studies 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 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 is also Vice Director of MARUM Center for Marine Environmental Sciences.
Prof. Antje Boetius
Antje Boetius has studied Biology and Biological Oceanography at the University of Hamburg and Scripps Institution of Oceanography in La Jolla, California. 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.
The European Academy of Sciences EURASC is an independent international association of distinguished scholars that aims to recognise and elect to its membership the best European scientists with a vision for Europe as a whole, transcending national borders with the aim of strengthening European science and scientific cooperation and of utilising the expertise of its members in advising other European bodies in the advancement of European research, technological application and social development.
