Prof. Dr. Antje Boetius

• 1986 – 1992
  University of Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany and Graduate School of Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, California, USA (Academic exchange program with UCSD): Diplom in Biology
  
  

• 1989 – 1990
  Lab assistant at Scripps Inst. of Oceanography San Diego, CA
  
  

• 1990 – 1992
  Institute for Hydrobiology and Fishery Res. Hamburg, Lab assistant (student contracts)
  
  

• 1993 – 1996
  Doctorate in Biology, University of Bremen, Bremen, Germany
  
  

• 1993 – 1996
  AWI for Polar and Marine Research Bremerhaven, Research associate (PhD)
  
  

• 1996
  PhD at University Bremen
  
  

• 1996 – 1999
  Institute for Baltic Sea Research Warnemünde, Research associate (Postdoc)
  
  

• 1999 – 2001
  Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology Bremen, Research associate (Postdoc)
  
  

• since 2001
  Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology Bremen, guest researcher
  
  

• 2001 – 2003
  Assistant Professor of Microbiology, International University Bremen; Teaching in biology (major and non-major), and transdisciplinary university study courses
  
  

• 2001 – 2003
  AWI for Polar and Marine Research Bremerhaven, Permanent research faculty, coordination of national and international projects on microbial turnover of methane above marine gas hydrate and at cold seeps
  
  

• 2003 – 2008
  Associate Professor of Microbiology, Jacobs University Bremen, Leader of the “Microbial habitat” group, MPI Bremen; Research on biogeochemistry, transport processes and microbial processes in benthic environments
  
  

• 2004
  Invited Professor of the University Pierre et Marie Curie (Paris 6)
  
  

• 2008
  Full Professor for Microbiology Jacobs University
  
  

• Since 2008
  Leader of the HGF-MPG Joint Research Group on Deep Sea Ecology and Technology AWI
  
  

• Since 2009
  Professor of Geomicrobiology University Bremen
  
  

• Since 2010
  External Scientific Member of the Max Planck Society
  
  

• Since 2012
  Vice Dir­ector of the MARUM Cluster of Ex­cel­lence, Uni­versity of Bre­men
  
  

• Since 2017
  Dir­ector of the Al­fred We­gener In­sti­tute Helm­holtz-Cen­ter for Po­lar and Mar­ine Re­search
  
  

• 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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