Biographies:

Kurt KONHAUSER, University of Alberta, Canada

Kurt Konhauser is a professor at the University of Alberta and Canada Research Chair in Geomicrobiology. He has led the field of biogeosciences by showing that metabolic processes occurring in restricted niches today once thrived at almost unfathomable scales. Prof. Konhauser is a fellow of the Geochemical Society (2017) and a member of the Royal Society of Canada (2017). In 2019, he receives the EGU Vladimir Ivanovich Vernadsky Medal for his exceptional contributions to biogeosciences in general, and in particular, for linking bacterial metabolisms and the chemical evolution of Earth’s atmosphere and oceans.