Hector Fellow since 2013
Prof. Dr. Antje BoetiusProf. Dr. Antje Boetius
President of the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute in California
Antje Boetius is President of the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute in California and an Adjunct Professor at Stanford University. From 2017 to early 2025, she served as Director of the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research, and as Professor of Geomicrobiology at the University of Bremen.
As an internationally renowned deep-sea researcher, she investigates the biodiversity and biogeochemistry of the deep ocean and polar seas. She is particularly interested in interactions between the geo- and biosphere and develops underwater technologies for observing the marine environment.
In 2019, Antje Boetius received the German Federal Cross of Merit. In 2026, she was elected to the Order Pour le Mérite for Science and Arts and awarded the Knight Commander's Cross of Germany. She has also received the German Environmental Prize, the Communicator Prize, the Leibniz Ring Hannover, the Vernadsky Medal, an ERC Advanced Grant, and the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize from the German Research Foundation (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, the Royal Academies of Sciences of Sweden and the UK, and an external scientific member of the Max Planck Society.
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.
