Anders Meibom
Professor Anders Meibom | |
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 Anders Meibom in 2020 | |
| Citizenship |  Denmark |
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | University of Southern Denmark |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Environmental bio-geochemistry |
| Institutions | École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) |
| Main interests | Isotope geochemistry, cell metabolism |
| Website | https://www.epfl.ch/labs/lgb/ |
Anders Meibom (born 9 September 1969) is a Danish interdisciplinary scientist and former football player[1] active in the field of bio-geochemistry. He is a professor at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), where he heads the laboratory for biological geochemistry.[2]
Career
[edit]Meibom obtained a PhD in physics at the University of Southern Denmark in 1997.[2] He then pursued a two-and-a-half-year postdoc at the Hawaii Institute for Geophysics and Planetology where he studied the mineralogy of primitive chondrotic meteorites. In 2000, he moved to Stanford University as a research associate in the Stanford-USGS ion microprobe laboratory, department of geological and environmental sciences. In 2005, he was appointed as an associate professor at the Museum National d’Histoire Naturelle in Paris, where he was promoted to full professor in 2007. From 2006 to 2011, he served as the director of the French National NanoSIMS analytical facility. In 2012, he was named full professor at the EPFL (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne) in the School of Architecture, Civil and Environmental Engineering (ENAC). He has also been full professor ad personam at the University of Lausanne since 2014. From 2015 to 2017, he was the director of the Institute of Environmental Engineering at EPFL.
In 2019, Meibom founded the Transnational Red Sea Center (TRSC), an initiative for scientific diplomacy supported by the Swiss Federal Department of Foreign Affairs and which aims to promote scientific collaboration in a politically unstable region endowed with fundamental ecological stakes.[3][4][5]
Research
[edit]Meibom currently leads the laboratory for biological geochemistry at EPFL. Research performed in his laboratory is interdisciplinary in nature, at the interface between isotope geochemistry and biology.[2] Active themes in the laboratory include the use of NanoSIMS to visualize and characterize the diagenesis of biogenic substrates, as well as the study of metabolic processes in symbiotic organisms (notably corals) and how these processes may be influenced by environmental stress, in particular climate change.[6][7]
Distinctions
[edit]In 2008, Meibom was awarded with the Medal for Research Excellence by the European Mineralogical Union for his contributions in the field of cosmochemistry.[8] From 2009 to 2012, he was appointed member of the Comité National Section 18 at the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS), France.[9] In 2009 and 2017, Meibom was awarded two advanced grants by the European Research Council for projects aiming to better understand biomineralization processes by marine organisms (Project BioCarb, 2009), as well as to better understand biocarbonate-based paleo-environmental records for the oceans (Project UltraPal, 2017).[10]
References
[edit]- ^ "Corals, Cooperation and Cooking: meet Anders Meibom". myscience.org. Retrieved 2021-07-03.
- ^ a b c "Anders Meibom". people.epfl.ch. Retrieved 2020-08-27.
- ^ "Transnational Red Sea project that could help save Earth's coral reefs". Global Geneva. 25 June 2021. Retrieved 2020-09-17.
- ^ Kleinhaus, Karine; Al-Sawalmih, Ali; Barshis, Daniel J.; Genin, Amatzia; Grace, Lola N.; Hoegh-Guldberg, Ove; Loya, Yossi; Meibom, Anders; Osman, Eslam O.; Ruch, Jean-Daniel; Shaked, Yonathan (2020). "Science, Diplomacy, and the Red Sea's Unique Coral Reef: It's Time for Action". Frontiers in Marine Science. 7. doi:10.3389/fmars.2020.00090. hdl:21.11116/0000-0005-EB81-0. ISSN 2296-7745.
- ^ "Red Sea coral spotlights Swiss 'Science Diplomacy'". SWI swissinfo.ch. Retrieved 2020-09-17.
- ^ "Current Research". www.epfl.ch. Archived from the original on 2021-02-04. Retrieved 2020-08-27.
- ^ Hoppe, Peter; Cohen, Stephanie; Meibom, Anders (2013). "NanoSIMS: Technical Aspects and Applications in Cosmochemistry and Biological Geochemistry". Geostandards and Geoanalytical Research. 37 (2): 111–154. doi:10.1111/j.1751-908X.2013.00239.x. ISSN 1751-908X. S2CID 1520075.
- ^ "Medal for Research Excellence 2008 | Official website of the European Mineralogical Union". Retrieved 2020-08-27.
- ^ "Rapport 2010 du CNRS Section 18" (PDF). cnrs.fr (in French). Archived (PDF) from the original on 2011-09-11. Retrieved 27 August 2020.
- ^ "ERC Funded Projects". ERC: European Research Council. Archived from the original on 2021-01-13. Retrieved 2020-08-27.
