Dr Stefanie Hetz
BSc, MSc, PhD
Expertise
I am an ecological microbiologist with a particular interest in soil microbiology and geomicrobiology.
Current positions
Senior Research Associate
School of Earth Sciences
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Biography
I studied microbial ecology and received my doctorate from the University of Hannover, Germany, for a thesis on microbial nitrous oxide emissions in permafrost-affected peatlands. Afterwards, I worked as a postdoc on the bioleaching of laterite ores using acidophiles at the Federal Institute for Geosciences and Natural Resources (BGR) in Hannover, Germany. In August 2024, I moved to Bristol to start work on iron biogeobatteries at the University of Bristol.
Publications
Recent publications
09/04/2024Do ferrous iron-oxidizing acidophiles (Leptospirillum spp.) disturb aerobic bioleaching of laterite ores by sulfur-oxidizing acidophiles (Acidithiobacillus spp.)?
Frontiers in Microbiology
4 Microbial nitrogen cycling in permafrost soils: implications for atmospheric chemistry
Microbial Life in the Cryosphere and Its Feedback on Global Change
Burkholderiaceae Are Key Acetate Assimilators During Complete Denitrification in Acidic Cryoturbated Peat Circles of the Arctic Tundra
Frontiers in Microbiology
Deforestation for oil palm: impact on microbially mediated methane and nitrous oxide emissions, and soil bacterial communities
Biological Fertility of Soils
Whole-Genome Sequences of Two New Caballeronia Strains Isolated from Cryoturbated Peat Circles of the Permafrost-Affected Eastern European Tundra
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