Dr. Malin Ah-King
Biological and related sciences, Evolutionary biology, Animal behaviour, Gender studies, Science studies
Biological and related sciences, Environment
Microbiology, biogeochemistry
Geomicrobiology
Methane biogeochemistry
Ecology of chemosynthetic habitats
Microbial biodiversity
Microbial processes of early diagenesis in deep-sea sediments
Effects of pressure and temperature on microbial processes
Pelago-benthic coupling in Polar Seas
General Microbial Ecology
Microbial symbiosis
Deep-sea ecology
Marine carbon cycle
German Environmental Prize, 2018
Gauß-Medaille 2017
European Research Council Advanced Investigators Grant “Abyss”, 2011
Distinguished Professor of the Jacobs University, 2009
Elected Member of the National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina (Section Geology), 2009
Gottfried-Wilhelm-Leibniz Prize of the DFG (German Research Foundation), 2009
Teaching Award MARMIC, 2007
Teaching Award MARMIC, 2006
Medaille de la Societe d’Oceanographie de France, 2006
Teaching Award MARMIC, 2005
FEMS Young Scientist Award for the participation in the 7th European Marine Microbiology Symposium, 2000
FEMS Young Scientist Award for the participation in the conference “Enzymes in the Environment“, 1999
DFG Stipend for the participation in the 9th Goldschmidt Conference, 1999
DFG Stipend for the participation in the Gordon Research Conference on Polar Marine Science, 1998
EU Stipend for the participation in DIALOG II, 1997
IAESTE Stipend of the DAAD, 1991
Stipend of the ”Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes” (German National Academic Foundation), 1986 – 1989
English, French, German
Boetius, A., Lochte, K.: Regulation of microbial enzymatic degradation of organic matter in deep-sea sediments. In: Marine Ecology Progress Series 104, 1994. S. 299-307.
Boetius, A., Damm, E.: Benthic oxygen uptake, hydrolytic potentials and microbial biomass at the Arctic continental slope. In: Deep-Sea Research I 45, 1998. S. 239-275.
Nauhaus, K. et al.: In vitro demonstration of anaerobic oxidation of methane coupled to sulphate reduction in sediment from a marine gas hydrate area. In: Environmental Microbiology 4(5), 2002. S. 296-305.
Witte, U. et al.: In situ experimental evidence of the fate of a phytodetritus pulse at the abyssal seafloor. In: Nature 424, 2003. S. 763-765.
Boetius, A. et al.: A marine microbial consortium apparently mediating anaerobic oxidation of methane. In: Nature 407, 2002. S. 623-626.
Michaelis, W. et al.: Microbial Reefs in the Black Sea Fueled by Anaerobic Oxidation of Methane. In: Science 297, 2002. S. 1013-1015.
Inagaki, F. et al.: Microbial community in a sediment-hosted CO2 lake of the southern Okinawa Trough hydrothermal system. In: PNAS 103(38), 2006. S. 13899-13900.
Niemann, H. et al.: Novel microbial communities of the Haakon Mosby mud volcano and their role as methane sink. In: Nature 443, 2006. S. 854-858.
Jørgensen, B.B., Boetius, A.: Feast and famine – microbial life in the deep-sea bed. In: Nature Microbiology Reviews 5, 2007. S. 770-781.
Knittel, K., Boetius, A.: The anaerobic oxidation of methane – progress with an unknown process. In: Annual Reviews of Microbiology 63, 2009. S. 311-334.
Marie Curie Action "Initial Training Networks" – ITN SenseNet, 2009 – 2011
BMBF (German Federal Ministry of Education and Research) project BIOACID, 2009 – 2011
EU Seventh Framework Programme (FP7) project HYPOX (project coordinator), 2009 – 2011
EU FP7 project HERMIONE (work package management), 2009 – 2011
EU FP7 Project EUROFLEETS, 2009 – 2011
European Science Foundation (ESF) EUROCORES EuroDeep "Chemeco", 2007 – 2010
EU Sixth Framework Programme (FP6) NoE ESONET, 2007 – 2011
Graduate School as part of the "GLOMAR” Excellence Initiative, 2007 – 2012
ESF EUROCORES EuroDiversity "MicroSystems", 2006 – 2010
CNRS GDRE DIWOOD – cooperative project between the Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), and the Max Planck Institute (MPI), 2006 – 2010
German Research Foundation (DFG) Research Centre RCOM II, Section E Fluid and gas seepage along continental margins: structures, processes and budgets, 2005 – 2009
Elected Member of the European Academy of Sciences
Elected Member of the Acadamy of Sciences and Literature Mainz, 2011
Member of the German Science Council, 2010
External Scientific Member of the Max Planck Society, 2010
Elected member of the National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina (geology), 2009
Member of the German Council of Science and Humanities
Member of the Diversitas D advisory board
Member of the National Committee for Global Change Research (NKGCF)
Chair of the Scientific Advisory Board for the Annette Barthelt Prize for Oceanic Research
Member of the Science Committee of the Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research (NIOZ)
Leader of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Leibniz Institute for Baltic Sea Research, Warnemünde, Germany
Advisory Board "C-DEBI", Centre for Dark Biosphere (NSF Science and Technology Centre, USC LA, USA)
Scientific Steering Committee, Deep Life Directorate of the Deep Carbon Observatory (Sloan Foundation, Carnegie USA)
Advisory Board, National History Museum Berlin
Advisory Board, Senckenberg Museum
Advisory Board, GeoBioCentre Munich (LMU)
Advisory Board, Institute for Polar Research IPEV (France)
Member of the Monaco Blue Initiative
Member of the Senate Commission for Oceanography at the German Research Foundation (DFG), 2006 – 2011
Member of the ChEss steering committee (Biogeography of Deep-Water Chemosynthetic Ecosystems), Census of Marine Life, to 2010
Member of the International Census of Marine Microbes (ICoMM) council, to 2010
Member of the American Society of Microbiology
Member of the American Society for Limnology and Oceanography
Member of the European Geosciences Union
Member of the American Geophysical Union
Member of the Association for General and Applied Microbiology (VAAM)
Member of the Federation of European Microbiological Societies (FEMS)
Member of the Editorial Boards for: ISME Journal, Nature Publishing Group; Applied and Environmental Microbiology, Geobiology, Aquatic Microbial Ecology, Biogeosciences, Marine Biology Research (formerly SARSIA and OPHELIA)
Reviewer for Science, Nature, MEPS, Limnology and Oceanography, Deep Sea Research I + II, Marine Biology, Marine Geology, Progress in Oceanography, Journal of Sea Research, Organic Geochemistry, AEM, Microbial Ecology, Springer Verlag
Reviewer for National Science Foundation (NSF), German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF), Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO), DFG, Natural Environment Research Council (NERC), NSF Panellist
Information on Antje Boetius on Wikipedia
More than 40 seagoing expeditions
Leader of numerous international research expeditions
Instructor at the Graduate School for the “Global Change in the Ocean Realm” Excellence Initiative and at the Max Planck Research School of Marine Microbiology (MarMic)
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Biological and related sciences, Evolutionary biology, Animal behaviour, Gender studies, Science studies
Biological and related sciences, Molecular biology, molecular microbiology, biochemistry, membrane protein biochemistry
Biological and related sciences, Cell Biology, Molecular Biology, Biochemistry, Microscopy
Biological and related sciences, Evolution, genomics, bioinformatics
Marine biologist Prof. Dr. Antje Boetius and an interdisciplinary team of wastewater experts from Leipzig will each receive half of the 2018 German Environmental Prize award by the German Federal Environmental Foundation (Deutsche Bundesstiftung Umwelt, DBU). German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier will present the award this week on 28 October in Erfurt.
Prof. Antje Boetius is an expert of marine biogeochemistry. Her studies include the exploration of Arctic deep-sea life under the ice, as well as the long-term observation of the effects of global warming on polar ecosystems.
Some microorganisms form nanowire connections to transfer electric energy. Researchers from Antje Boetius' research group have discovered this transfer between dual-species microbial consortia that degrade methane.
A team of Max Planck researchers from Germany now showed how sunken wood can develop into attractive habitats for a variety of microorganisms and invertebrates.
This fall, the research icebreaker "Polarstern" returned after two months at sea. 54 scientists and technicians from twelve nations collected data on the retreat of the sea ice and the consequences for the Arctic Ocean and its ecosystems.