Department of Genetics In Ecology

PhD Antje Gittel

Department of Biology/Centre for Geobiology
University of Bergen
Thormøhlensgate 53A/B
5006 Bergen
Norway
T: +47 5558 8187
Antje.Gittel(at)bio.uib.no

CURRICULUM VITAE

Current Position

Since 01/2001
Postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Biology and the Center for Geobiology, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway
CryoCARB project in cooperation with the Department of Genetics in Ecology, University of Vienna (Prof. Christa Schleper, Dr. Tim Urich)


Working experience

01/2010 - 12/2010
Postdoctoral researcher holding a scholarship of the Carlsberg Foundation at the Department of Biological Sciences (Section Microbiology), Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark

11/2007 - 12/2009
Postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Biological Sciences (Section Microbiology), Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark
Cooperators: Dr. Andreas Schramm, Dr. Kjeld Ingvorsen
Funding by the Danish Agency for Science, Technology and Innovation

06/2004 - 10/2007
Research Assistant in the Paleomicrobiology Group, Institut fuer Chemie und BIologie des Meeres (ICBM), Carl von Ossietzky Universitaet Oldenburg, Oldenburg, Germany

Educational background

12/2007
Defense of the PhD thesis and granting of the doctorate (Dr. rer. nat.)

Thesis title: “Community structure, activity and ecophysiology of sulfate-reducing bacteria in deep tidal flat sediments“
Grade: Magna cum laude

Paleomicrobiology Group, Institut fuer Chemie und BIologie des Meeres (ICBM), Carl von Ossietzky Universitaet Oldenburg, Oldenburg, Germany
Supervisors: Dr. Martin Koenneke, Prof. Dr. Heribert Cypionka

06 / 2004
Diploma in the research group Biology of geological processes, Institut fuer Chemie und Biologie des Meeres (ICBM), Carl von Ossietzky Universitaet Oldenburg, Oldenburg, Germany

Thesis title: “Studying bacterial manganese oxidation in the German Wadden Sea“
Supervisors: Dr. habil. Thorsten Brinkhoff, Prof. Dr. Meinhard Simon


1999 - 2004
Studies of Marine Environmental Sciences (Carl von Ossietzky Universitaet Oldenburg, Oldenburg; Germany)
Majors: Microbial and molecular ecology, organic geochemistry

More information about myself

Antje Gittel at the Grand Prismatic Spring in Yellowstone