Staff Profile

Stefan Sievert

Preferred Name: Stefan Sievert

Associate Scientist With Tenure

Biology

Email: ssievert@whoi.edu

Phone: 508 289 2305

Office: BioGeoChemistry Laboratory-2nd Floor 

Address:
 Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution,   Mail Stop 52
266 Woods Hole Road
Woods Hole, MA 02543

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Lab/Group Site: http://www.whoi.edu/groups/sievertlab

Education

B.S. (Vordiplom) Johannes-Gutenberg University, Mainz, Germany, Biology
M.S. Diplom) Bremen University and Alfred-Wegener-Institute for Polar and Marine Research, Bremen, Germany, 1996, Biological Oceanography
Ph.D. Bremen University and Max-Planck-Institute for Marine Microbiology, Bremen, Germany, 1999, Microbial Ecology

Research Interests

Analyses of the composition and function of microbial communities, with the goal to understand the relationships between microorganisms and their biogeochemical transformations. Special interests include the microbial ecology of hydrothermal vents, bacteria involved in sulfur cycling, and the environmental importance of CO2-fixation pathways other than the Calvin cycle.