Dr. Michael Manefield

Biography

Professor Michael Manefield is an environmental scientist with a major focus on microbiology. After completing his PhD at the University of New South Wales (UNSW) in 2000, he worked in Cambridge (UK), Copenhagen (Denmark), Kamaishi (Japan), and Oxford (UK) before returning to UNSW as a Senior Research Associate at the Centre for Marine Bioinnovation from 2004 to 2010. He was awarded the ARC FT2 Future Fellowship at the School of Biotechnology and Biomolecular Sciences from 2011 to 2014, followed by a tenure track position. Professor Manefield has been recognized with the August Wilhelm Scheer Visiting Professorship at the Technical University of Munich, Germany, in 2015. He teaches on contaminated site remediation and water resource recovery and has broad research interests in environmental microbiology with a specific emphasis on applied aspects. His notable research achievements include the discovery of bacterial quorum sensing inhibitors and development of methods for stable isotope probing. He has published over 120 scientific articles, graduated 15 PhD students, and secured approximately $20 million in research funding from both government and industry. Additionally, he established a bioremediation company, Micronovo/Novorem, and is active in the Australasian Land and Groundwater Association.

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