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German marine biologist and university teacher (born 1967)

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Antje Boetius is a German marine biologist. She is a professor of geomicrobiology at the Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology, University of Bremen. Boetius received the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize in March 2009 for her study of sea bed microorganisms that affect the global climate.

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2025Foreign Member of the Royal Society
2024Internationaler TÜV Rheinland Global Compact Award
2023University Teacher of the Year
2019Officer's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
2019Erna Hamburger Prize
2019Leibniz-Ring-Hannover
2018German Environmental Prize
2018Vladimir Ivanovich Vernadsky Medal
2018Communicator Prize
2017Carl Friedrich Gauss Medal
2014Gustav-Steinmann Medal
2014Hector Wissenschaftspreis
2013ECI Prize
2009Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize
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Antje Boetius is a German marine biologist. She is a professor of geomicrobiology at the Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology, University of Bremen. Boetius received the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize in March 2009 for her study of sea bed microorganisms that affect the global climate. She has been the director of Germany's polar research hub, the Alfred Wegener Institute, since 2017. In May 2025 she became president and CEO of the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute.

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Germany
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Born 1967 · age 59
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