Emma J Gagen
I completed my PhD in rumen microbial ecology at University of Queensland in 2010 before moving to the University of Regensburg, Germany to undertake postdoctoral research investigating uncultivated lineages of archaea in the subsurface (below the sea floor).
I'm currently a Research Fellow in geomicrobiology at UQ and my research focuses on harnessing microbial processes for accelerated mine site rehabilitation (iron ore mines in Brazil, coal mines in central Queensland).
Other projects I contribute to relate to microbial colonisation of meteorites, bacterial degradation of anhydrite, microbiology of sulphur rich environments and formation of seafloor iron-manganese crusts. My research interests extend to all areas of environmental microbiology and I am fascinated by the role microorganisms play in geochemical processes.
When I'm not in the lab there's a good chance I'm hiking a mountain or exploring a forest.
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