The Department of Marine Microbiology and Biogeochemistry (MMB) studies microbial communities and their functioning in all types of marine environments, from estuaries to the deep ocean, from tropical coral reefs to polar regions, and from the present to the past. The Department has well-equipped molecular, chemical and microbiological laboratories, and state-of-the-art facilities for bioinformatics, flow cytometry, single-cell analysis as well as isotope and high-resolution mass spectrometry. The Department is international and dynamic and has approximately 80 members, including PhD students, postdocs and Master students from >15 different countries. A group of sixteen staff scientists and fifteen research assistants (junior and senior) form the core of the Department. Nearly half of the core staff was recruited in the last three years leading to a young, vibrant, diverse and multidisciplinary department.
MAIN TASKS AND RESPONSIBILITIES of the new Department Head:
- Bearing final responsibility for research and scientific production pertaining to the department’s mission, which includes fundamental and frontier applied multidisciplinary research projects;
- The general management of the department and membership of the NIOZ Management Team;
- Contributing to the institute-wide development of and collaboration on marine research, and to laying the groundwork for the department’s outreach and communication;
- General representation of the department and NIOZ.
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