Hauke Harms
Hauke Harms (born December 26, 1961 in Geesthacht ) is a German environmental microbiologist .
Harms grew up in Drage (Elbe) , studied biology at the University of Hamburg from 1983 to 1988 and did his doctorate in 1990 in the same position. He succeeded for the first time in detecting bacteria that biochemically transform dioxin. After research stays at Wageningen University (Netherlands) from 1991 to 1993 and at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) Zurich from 1993 to 1998 , he accepted a professorship for soil microbiology at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL). In 2004 he moved to the University of Leipzig as professor for environmental microbiology and to head the environmental microbiology department at the Helmholtz Center for Environmental Research - UFZ . Harms has been coordinating the Helmholtz research program 'Terrestrial Environment' since 2013. In July 2017, he also took over the management of the environmental and biotechnology department at the UFZ. Since January 2019, Harms has also been the spokesman for the research program 'Changing Earth - Sustaining our Future', which is currently in the planning stage, and which will bundle all research in the Helmholtz Research Area Earth & Environment from 2021.
Harms deals with the development of sustainable environmental biotechnology for the production of renewable energy, for example in biogas plants, as well as the purification of waste water and soils contaminated with pollutants . He transfers ecological principles known from nature and functionally robust microbial communities to technical systems. Together with Jan Roelof van der Meer and Mona Wells, he was awarded the 2010 Erwin Schrödinger Prize for developing a biosensor for arsenic in drinking water .
Harms is chairman of the advisory board of the Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology, Bremen and member of the supervisory board of the Leibniz Institute German Collection for Microorganisms and Cell Cultures (DSMZ) in Braunschweig. He is married and has four kids. Harms is a multiple marathon and ultramarathon runner.
Web links
Popular science lectures
- From highways and sushi trains - how fungi and bacteria eat our soil clean
- I also brake for bacteria
Individual evidence
- ^ Erwin Schrödinger Prize 2010 for the development of an arsenic detector , in: Informationsdienst Wissenschaft from August 26, 2010, accessed on October 28, 2010
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Harms, Hauke |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German environmental microbiologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 26, 1961 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Geesthacht |