Prof.dr. J.G. (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

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

Key publications

• Kuenen, J.G. (2008) Anammox bacteria: From discovery to application. Nature Reviews Microbiology, 6 (4), pp. 320-326.
• Sorokin, D.Y., Banciu, H., Van Loosdrecht, M., Kuenen, J.G. (2003) Growth physiology and competitive interaction of obligately chemolithoautotrophic, haloalkaliphilic, sulfur-oxidizing bacteria from soda lakes. Extremophiles, 7 (3), pp. 195-203.
• Strous, M., Fuerst, J.A., Kramer, E.H.M., Logemann, S., Muyzer, G., Van De Pas-Schoonen, K.T., Webb, R., Kuenen, J.G., Jetten, M.S.M. (1999) Missing lithotroph identified as new planctomycete. Nature, 400 (6743), pp. 446-449.
• Kuenen, J.G., Robertson, L.A. (1994) Combined nitrification-denitrification processes. FEMS Microbiology Reviews, 15 (2-3), pp. 109-117.
• Gottschal, J.C., de Vries, S., Kuenen, J.G. (1979) Competition between the facultatively chemolithotrophic Thiobacillus A2, an obligately chemolithotrophic Thiobacillus and a heterotrophic spirillum for inorganic and organic substrates. Archives of Microbiology, 121 (3), pp. 241-249.
• Kuenen, J.G. (1975) Colourless sulfur bacteria and their role in the sulfur cycle. Plant and Soil, 43, pp. 49-76.

Personal website

Website Gijs Kuenen