Dr. Tina Treude

Biography

Tina Treude is a Professor at the University of California, Los Angeles, in the Institute of the Environment and Sustainability, where she directs the Marine Center. Her research primarily focuses on geomicrobiological processes in marine environments, such as the balance of methane production and consumption, which is crucial to understanding biogeochemical cycles. She received her diploma in biology from the University of Kiel in Germany in 1999 and earned her PhD in Biogeochemistry from the Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology Institute at the University of Bremen in 2004. Treude's postdoctoral studies were conducted at the University of Southern California, and she was a Professor at the GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel, Germany, from 2007 to 2014. Since arriving at UCLA in Fall 2014, she has focused on the effects of climate change on marine oxygen minimum zones and has contributed to numerous research projects related to marine ecosystems. Her work has taken her on several marine research expeditions, where she has examined deep-sea environments and their ecological importance firsthand. Treude continues to study a wide range of geomicrobiological processes, including petroleum degradation and microbial precipitation.

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