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Helge Niemann is a Professor at Utrecht University, specializing in biogeochemistry, marine microbiology, and oceanography. His research particularly focuses on the transformation of important 'unconventional' carbon substrates such as plastic, methane, and oil, and their fate in aquatic microbial food web structures. He investigates microbial kinetics and the spatiotemporal aspects of aquatic carbon cycling to understand the environmental forcing factors that determine the turnover of these unconventional carbon substrates in various environments, including the water column and sediments. Additionally, he is interested in using lipid biomarkers and chemotaxonomic markers as proxy indicators for recording (paleo) environmental conditions. His work combines both fundamental science and applied aspects, contributing valuable insights into microbial ecology and environmental biochemistry.
Department of Psychology