Antje Boetius

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Antje Boetius (2018)

Antje Boetius (also Boëtius ; born March 5, 1967 in Frankfurt am Main ) is a German marine biologist and professor at the University of Bremen . Since January 2015 she has been chairwoman of the steering committee of Wissenschaft im Dialog and since November 2017 she has also headed the Alfred Wegener Institute in Bremerhaven .

Live and act

Conversation between Holger Klein and Boetius about her research.

From 1986 to 1992 Boetius completed a diploma in biology at the University of Hamburg . From 1989 to 1991 she studied Biological Oceanography at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography . For her diploma thesis, which she wrote on deep-sea bacteria, she spent three months on various research vessels in the Pacific and Atlantic .

Boetius wrote her dissertation on “microbial metabolism in the deep sea of ​​the Arctic” in 1996 at the University of Bremen. From 1996 to 1999 she was involved in a postdoctoral project at the Institute for Baltic Sea Research , which dealt with the deep sea of the Indian Ocean . In 1999 she moved to the Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology in Bremen , where the investigation of submarine gas sources became one of her main research areas. Another focus of Boetius' focus is the microbiology of methane turnover in the sea.

In 2001 Boetius became an assistant professor at Jacobs University Bremen . In addition, she received a position as a research assistant at the Alfred Wegener Institute in the geology department and worked as the head of various joint projects in Germany and the European Union in the fields of biogeochemistry and microbiology of methane in the sea. In 2003 she received a chair as associate professor at Jacobs University Bremen. In the same year she became head of the “Microbial Habitats” research group at the Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology , which deals with the investigation of various deep-sea ecosystems, methane biogeochemistry, in-situ marine technology and microbial biodiversity. In 2006 this research group was able to detect another form of methane-eating microorganisms after Boetius discovered the first “methane-eater” in 2000 together with other scientists from the Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology.

In 2004 Antje Boetius taught as a visiting professor at the University of Pierre and Marie Curie in Paris . From June to November 2008 she was Professor of Microbiology at Jacobs University. Since March 2009 she has been Professor of Geomicrobiology in the Geosciences Department at the University of Bremen.

Boetius is a member of various international institutions, including IFREMER , CNRS , DIVERSITAS, and is involved in programs on the biodiversity of the ocean ( Census of Marine Life , CHESS , ICOMM ). She is editor and reviewer for various international marine research journals as well as trainer at the Graduate School of the Excellence Initiative “Global Change in the Marine Realm” (GLOMAR) and at the Max Planck Research School of Marine Microbiology (MarMic).

Boetius has participated in around 40 marine biology exploration expeditions and was the leader of various international research trips. The research into deep sea ecology was carried out with special diving robots .

In 2011 she received funding of around 3.4 million euros from the European Research Council for the project “ABYSS - Assessment of bacterial life and matter cycling in deep-sea surface sediments”. (Investigations of the sea floor in the Arctic deep sea and its bacterial world). The five-year project started in 2012.

In the public debate about the climate crisis , Boetius advocates a clear tightening of climate protection; So she wrote in 2019 with a view to politics: “To be courageous here means to take a big step now for climate protection. To be courageous means to ensure that the citizen comes along and wants to and can participate. We really cannot afford to delay climate change or to miss our own goals. ”She is one of the authors of the 2019 statement by the National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina , which is entitled Climate goals 2030: Paths to a sustainable reduction in CO2 Emissions . It is u. a. the rapid introduction of CO 2 pricing is required.

She is granddaughter of the survivor of the Hindenburg disaster Eduard Boëtius and daughter of the writer Henning Boëtius .

Awards and memberships

Publications (selection)

  • 1992: Extracellular hydrolytic enzyme activities as parameters for microbial processes in deep sea sediments
  • 1996: Microbial enzymatic degradation of organic substances in deep sea sediments
  • 2000: A marine microbial consortium apparently mediating anaerobic oxidation of methane (with Katrin Ravenschlag, Carsten J. Schubert, Dirk Rickert, Friedrich Widdel, Armin Gieseke, Rudolf Amann , Bo Barker Jørgensen, Ursula Witte & Olaf Pfannkuche). In: Nature 407, pp. 623-626 (October 5, 2000) doi: 10.1038 / 35036572
  • 2004: Methane in gas hydrate bearing sediments - turnover rates and microorganisms: MUMM; report 01 January 2001 - 31 December 2003; BMBF program "Gas hydrates in the earth's system"
  • 2005: OTEGA II: Final report on the SO174 research trip to the Gulf of Mexico, October 1st – November 12th, 2003, Balboa - Miami
  • 2011: Viruses and other microbes: salvation or plague? : on the 100th anniversary of Robert Koch's death
  • 2011: The dark paradise - The discovery of the deep sea (together with Henning Boëtius ), Bertelsmann Verlag ISBN 978-3-570-10052-3

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Resonator podcast of the Helmholtz Association : Deep Sea Research (Volume 83, April 8, 2016)
  2. https://www.spektrum.de/news/wir-koennen-uns-keine-verzoegerung-mehr-baren/1662486
  3. https://www.leopoldina.org/en/publications/detailview/publication/klimaziele-2030-wege-zu-einer-nachhaltigen-reduktion-der-co2-emissions-2019/
  4. Own information on Planet Wissen May 10, 2011 ( Memento from September 9, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
  5. ^ Academy of Sciences and Literature
  6. Member entry of Antje Boetius (with picture and CV) at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on June 30, 2016.
  7. see Boetius' curriculum vitae at Leopoldina , PDF, accessed on July 29, 2015
  8. EMBO enlarges its membership for 50th anniversary. Press release from May 8, 2014 at the Science Information Service (idw-online.de)
  9. AWI deep-sea researcher Antje Boetius awarded the Gustav Steinmann Medal. ( Memento of the original from March 15, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Alfred Wegener Institute (awi.de); accessed on October 2, 2014.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.awi.de
  10. Awarding of the Hector Science Prize
  11. ^ Founding ceremony of the Hector Fellow Academy
  12. ^ Symposium lecture by Boetius
  13. see message http://www.wissenschaft-im-dialog.de/medien/pressemitteilungen/artikel/beitrag/wechsel-an-der-spitze-von-wissenschaft-im-dialog-antje-boetius-wird-vorsitzende-des - steering committee /
  14. Biocom Ag: Medal rain for deep-sea researcher. In: transkript.de. July 25, 2017. Retrieved July 27, 2017 .
  15. EGU announces 2018 awards and medals. In: egu.eu. October 9, 2017, accessed November 8, 2017 .
  16. German environmental award to marine biologist Boetius and Leipzig wastewater experts on the website of the German Federal Environment Foundation , 23 August 2018, accessed on 23 August 2018.
  17. "maybrit illner" from May 2, 2019
  18. . O V. : Leibniz-Ring: Boetius receives award , articles and additional information on the side of Norddeutscher Rundfunk of 21 October 2019 last downloaded October 22, 2019
  19. Karin S. Schwarz (Red.): LeibnizRingHannover 2019 / Awarded to marine biologist Antje Boetius - laudator Hannes Jaenicke , press release from the Press Club Hannover of October 21, 2019