Michael Jetten#
| Membership Number: | 3599 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | CELL & DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY |
| Elected: | 2013 |
| Main Country of Residence: | THE NETHERLANDS |
| Homepage(s): | http://ru.nl/microbiology |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2010 - now Deputy Dean, Faculty of Science, Radboud University Nijmegen, NL
- 2004 - 2010 Director of Research IWWR, Radboud University Nijmegen, NL
- 2001 - now Extraordinary Professor in Environmental Microbiology TU Delft, NL
- 2000 - now Full Professor Ecological Microbiology, Radboud University Nijmegen, NL
- 1994 - 2000 Assistant professor in Environmental Microbiology TU Delft, NL
- 1991 - 1994 Postdoc Metabolic Engineering, MIT Cambridge, USA
- 1987 - 1991 PhD student Anaerobic microbiology, Wageningen University, NL
Fields of Scholarship
- Microbial physiology of nitrogen and methane cycle bacteria
- Anaerobic ammonium oxidation
- Microbial ecology of anaerobic micro organism
- Anaerobic methane oxidation
- Metagenomics of complex microbial communities
Honours and Awards
- 2013 ERC Advanced Investigators Grant
- 2013 Knighthood in the order of the Royal Lion of the Netherlands for exceptional services to science
- 2012 Spinoza Price, The highest scientific distinction in the Netherlands, Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO)
- 2011 member of the Science Advisory Board
- 2010 Member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, section Biology
- 2009 Chairman VICI committee the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research
- 2008 ERC Advanced Investigator Grant
- 2008 Chairman General and Molecular Microbiology, Netherlands Society of Microbiology
- 2003 Scientific advisory board Royal Netherlands Society of Microbiology KNVM
- 2006 Chief Editor of Environmental Microbiology, the leading journal in the field
- 2002 Machevo prize for sustainable design anammox wastewater treatment plant
- 1996 Prize of best Design new wastewater treatment systems, STOWA
- 1994 Fellowship of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences
- 1991 talent stipendium Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO)
