Gijs Kuenen
Biography
- 2006 - present
Emeritus and part-time professor of General and Applied Microbiology, Department of Biotechnology, Faculty of Applied Sciences, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands - 2006 - present
Visiting Scientist at the University of Southern California (USC), Los Angeles, USA - 2001 -2005
Part-time professor of Microbiology, Faculty of Science, Leiden University, The Netherlands - 1997 - 2005
Chairman of the Department of Biotechnology and Chairman of the Section Industrial and Environmental Microbiology, Faculty of Applied Sciences, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands - 1993 - 1997
Chairman of Department of Microbiology and Enzymology, Faculty of Applied Sciences, Delft University of Technology - 1988 - 1990
Dean of the Faculty of Chemical Technology and Materials Science, Delft University of Technology - 1980 - 1987
Chairman of Department of Microbiology and of Department of Microbiology and Enzymology, Delft University of Technology - 1980 - 2005
Full professor of General and Applied Microbiology, Department of Biotechnology, Faculty of Applied Sciences, Delft University of Technology - 1967 - 1980
Scientific officer, Lecturer and Senior Lecturer, Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Biology, Groningen University, The Netherlands - 1972
PhD Groningen University, The Netherlands, 'Colourless sulphur bacteria in tidal mudflats', supervisor: Prof. H.Veldkamp - 1966
MSc Biochemistry and Microbiology, Groningen University, The Netherlands
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Research interests
- Physiology, ecophysiology and environmental role of sulphur oxidizing bacteria
- Physiology, ecophysiology and environmental role of nitrifying, denitrifying bacteria
- Physiology, ecophysiology and environmental role of anammox bacteria
- Application of sulphur producing bacteria in waste water purification
- Application of nitrifying, denitrifying and anammox bacteria in waste water purification
Teaching activities
- BSc and MSc programmes: general microbiology, microbial (eco)physiology, environmental microbiology
- International Advanced Courses: microbial physiology, microbial ecology
- Supervised 43 PhD’s until 2008