Julia A. Vorholt (born September 15, 1969[1]) is a full professor of microbiology at ETH Zurich and an elected member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina.[1]
Julia A. Vorholt | |
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Born | September 15, 1969 |
Scientific career | |
Thesis | Formylmethanofuran-Dehydrogenasen aus methanogenen Archaea Rolle von Eisen-Schwefel-Zentren, von Molybdän und Wolfram und von Selen (1997) |
Doctoral advisor | Rudolf K. Thauer |
She earned her PhD in 1997 under professor Rudolf K. Thauer at the Max Planck Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology, for which she was awarded the Otto Hahn Medal, and is a German national residing in Switzerland.[1] Following her Ph.D., she was a postdoctoral researcher with Mary Lidstrom at the University of Washington.[2]
She is a member of the European Academy of Microbiology (EAM).[3]
Current projects of the Vorholt lab at ETH Zurich include:[4]
In addition, work from her lab was significant in refuting previous claims by NASA scientists that the arsenic-tolerant bacteria GFAJ-1 could utilize arsenic instead of phosphorus in DNA and other essential biomolecules.[5][6]
As of 2013 she had 90 publications,[1] and as of 2015 her work has been cited approximately 4100 times.[7]