Niels Kroer

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Research Interests

Molecular microbial ecology, exchange of genetic material between bacteria, evolution of microbial communities, bacterial turnover of dissolved carbon and nitrogen in coastal and oceanic waters, regulation of bacterial growth efficiency, bacterial viruses, functional diversity of microbial communities in water, soil, ice and snow, occurrence and function of bacterial virulence factors in the outer (non-host) environment, role of bacteria in the global mercury cycle.

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EDUCATION

1994                             PhD, The Royal Veterinary and Agricultural University, Denmark (UCPH)

1983                             MSc Biology, Aarhus University (AU), Denmark

1986                             BSc Chemistry, Aarhus University, Denmark

POSITIONS

2015-present             Professor, Head of Department of Biology, UCPH, DK

2011-2015                  Head of Department of Environmental Science, AU, DK

2002-2011                  Research Director, Department of Environmental Chemistry and Microbiology, National Environmental Reseaerch Institute, DK

ACADEMIC HONORS AND POSITIONS OF TRUST, SELECTED

2023 - present           Member of Steering Committe for the     Greenland Ecosystem Monitoring (GEM) Programme

2021-present                Member of Polar Expert Group (EU-PolarNet2)

2020-present                Member of Forum for Arctic Research, Ministry for Education and Research, DK

2020-2024                    Member of Research and Innovation Network (Altinget)

2015-present                Member of Science Coordination Board for Villum Research Station, Station Nord, NE Greenland, Aarhus University

2015-present                Member of Steering Committee, Nano-Science Center, UCPH

2012-2015     Member of EU ESFRI (European Strategy Forum on Research Infrastructures) - Environment Strategy Working Group

2014                  Member of Evaluation panel of Department of Environmental Science and Technology, Cyprus University of Technology

2005-2010           Member of The review moderating panel of the Core Strategic Programme (2005-2010) of the Natural Environment Research Council’s Centre for Ecology and Hydrology. UK

2004             Member of The Science and Management Audit of the Natural Environment Research Council’s Centre for Ecology and Hydrology. UK

PUBLICATIONS

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