On April 5, 2023, in the framework of the KNVM Spring Meeting 2023 in Papendal, our SIAM Director Prof. Dr. Mike Jetten had the priviledge to award the first researchers with a prize after his name.
As the KNVM stated, Prof. Mike Jetten (Roermond 1962) is a renowned Dutch microbiologist and a world leader in the field of environmental microbiology. He received several prestigious awards and prizes: ERC Advanced Grant in 2008 for his research on anammox bacteria, the Spinozapremie in 2012, and a second ERC Advanced grant in 2013 to study the ecology of methane oxidizers. Since 2013, he is the scientific director of the Gravitation consortium on anaerobic microbiology (Soehngen Institute of Anaerobic Microbiology, https://anaerobic-microbiology.eu/). He is a member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts & Sciences, the European Academy of Microbiology, EMBO and KNVM. In 2019 he was awarded an ERC Synergy grant together with Utrecht University. He has published more than 500 papers and he has supervised 60 PhD candidates and 36 post-docs on various topics in methane and nitrogen cycles. He has been an editor for AEM, Microbiology(UK), Archives of Microbiology, Environmental Microbiology, and is currently Editor in Chief of Antonie van Leeuwenhoek Journal of Microbiology, a joint venture between KNVM and SpringerNature (https://www.springer.com/journal/10482). In September 2015, his team started the first Microbiology master’s education in the Netherlands from which currently more than 160 students from 42 countries have graduated.
Awardees
2023
- Catherine Toner-Bartelds
Rapid methods for the assessment of bacterial killing by phage | Utrecht University - Pleun Meurs
The influence of different culture media on colonization factors of Streptococcus pneumoniae | Radboud University Nijmegen - Gerben de Zwaan
Development and optimization of fluorescence-in situ hybridization tools to target microbial symbiotic systems | Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research
Prof. Mike Jetten at the award cerimony
The KNVM webpage mentioning the “Mike Jetten Award” among its awards and grants
