Team Leader
Microbial ecology and biogeochemistry
Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO)
Australia
Sept. 1989 – Nov. 1994 Graduate Degree in Molecular Biology and Biotechnology, Dept. of Biochemistry, University of Szeged, Hungary.Nov. 1994 – Dec. 1997 Ph.D. in Microbiology/Biophysics, Biological Research Centre, Hung. Acad. Sci., Szeged, Hungary. Supervisor: Prof. Kornél .L. Kovács. "Thermophilic methane oxidising bacteria and their biotechnological potential". Summa cum laude.Dec. 2013- Team Leader, Environmental Genomics Team, CSIRO Marine and Atmospheric Research, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia.Research interest includes Microbial ecology and biogeochemistry, Microbial oceanography,Microbial nitrogen cycling,Nitrification and Methods and tools for high resolution microbial oceanography.98 scientific publications (74 in peer reviewed journals, 2395 citations, h index = 26, WoS);
Microbial oceanography