Dr. John Moreau

Biography

John Moreau obtained a B.A. Honours from Arizona State University in 1994, double majoring in English and Political Science. After a period of full-time employment, he returned to ASU to obtain an M.S. in Geology in 2001. He completed his Ph.D. in Earth and Planetary Sciences at the University of California-Berkeley in 2006. Moreau was awarded a prestigious United States National Research Council Postdoctoral Fellowship to work at the U.S. Geological Survey in Wisconsin from 2006 to 2008. He then took a tenure-track-equivalent academic position as a Lecturer in the School of Earth Sciences at The University of Melbourne, Australia (2008-2013), and was promoted to Senior Lecturer (2014-2018) and then Associate Professor (2019). At the University of Melbourne, he founded the cross-faculty Environmental Microbiology Research Initiative, serving as its Director. In July 2019, he joined the School of Geographical and Earth Sciences at the University of Glasgow as a Reader. Moreau has a strong focus on geomicrobiology and environmental geoscience and is particularly interested in the biogeochemical cycle of mercury and the mechanisms by which bacteria transform mercury into neurotoxic forms. He employs a variety of methodological approaches, including metagenomics and stable isotope geochemistry, to explore these topics and their implications for environmental health and remediation.

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