Hector Fellow since 2013
Prof. Dr. Antje Boetius

Prof. Dr. Antje Boetius

Profes­sor of Geomi­cro­bi­ol­ogy, Univer­sity of Bremen & HGF-MPG Group for Deep-Sea Ecology and Technol­ogy Alfred Wegener Insti­tute for Polar and Marine Research in the Helmholtz Association

Antje Boetius is Direc­tor of the Alfred Wegener Insti­tute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research, and Profes­sor of Geomi­cro­bi­ol­ogy at the Univer­sity of Bremen.

Antje Boetius is an inter­na­tion­ally recog­nized deep-sea researcher who explores the diver­sity and biogeo­chem­istry of the ocean, includ­ing its polar regions. She is inter­ested in inter­ac­tions between geo- and biosphere and devel­ops deep-sea technolo­gies used to monitor the ocean environ­ment. Among others, she has found anaer­o­bic methane-oxidiz­ing microor­gan­isms that minimize methane emission in the sea, and inves­ti­gates the geoecol­ogy of subma­rine gas sources, and indica­tions of rapid modifi­ca­tions of the arctic ecosys­tem due to ice melting.

Antje Boetius received the Federal Cross of Merit in 2019. Further­more she received, inter alia, the German Environ­men­tal Prize, the Commu­ni­ca­tor Price, the Leibniz-Ring-Hannover, an Advanced Grant of the European Research Council (ERC) and the Leibniz Prize of the DFG. She is a member of the German National Academy of Sciences (Leopold­ina), the Berlin-Branden­burg Academy of Sciences and Human­i­ties (BBAW), the Academy of Sciences and Liter­a­ture Mainz, and of the Max Planck Society.

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Doctor­ate Currently not vacant

Antje Boetius is currently unavail­able to super­vise doctoral projects.

   

Video portrait of Antje Boetius

Deep Sea and Polar Research: Antje Boetius Fight­ing Climate Change

Prof. Dr. Antje Boetius is a world-renowned deep-sea researcher whose work focuses on the inter­ac­tions between the geosphere and biosphere and under­wa­ter technolo­gies for observ­ing the marine environment.

HFA-Sympo­sium

Science Commu­ni­ca­tion: Antje Boetius on the Trans­fer of Research to Public

Science is not supposed to be isolated from the public. Antje Boetius is there­fore very much concerned with the question of how scien­tific results can be brought to the public in order to facil­i­tate a dialogue.

Climate and Future

Antje Boetius on Societal Respon­si­bil­ity of Science

Accord­ing to Hector Fellow Antje Boetius, Direc­tor of the Alfred Wegener Insti­tute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research, and Profes­sor of Geomi­cro­bi­ol­ogy at the Univer­sity of Bremen, it is part of the task and respon­si­bil­ity of science to talk about risks and the conse­quences of human activ­ity on the Earth system and the climate.

   
Forschungsfeld Biologie

— Biology

Deep Sea Research / Geomicrobiology

Research fields

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Micro­bial ecology
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Gas hydrates and cold seeps
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Deep-sea research
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Marine biogeo­chem­istry
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Geomi­cro­bi­ol­ogy