Institution/Organization: University of Tennessee

Email Address: frank.loeffler@utk.edu

Committee(s): Collaborator

Frank Löffler received a B.S. degree in Biology and an M.S. degree in microbiology from the University of Hohenheim in Stuttgart, Germany. He performed his doctoral studies in biotechnology at the Technical University Hamburg-Harburg and received a Ph.D. degree (summa cum laude) in 1994. As an Alexander von Humboldt fellow, he conducted research in the NSF Center for Microbial Ecology at Michigan State University, before joining the School of Civil & Environmental Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta, GA. Since 2010, Dr. Löffler serves as Governor’s Chair Professor at the University of Tennessee and Oak Ridge National Laboratory, and he directs the university’s Center for Environmental Biotechnology. The Löffler laboratory explores the physiology, diversity, distribution, and ecology of microbes that control the turnover of nutrients and pollutants, with the goal to harness, manipulate, and predict their functions in both natural and managed habitats. His research has been funded by the DOE, EPA, NIH, DOD, and NSF. He has published over 200 manuscripts and book chapters and has edited a seminal book, Organohalide-Respiring Bacteria. His work has been cited more than 16,000 times and he has an H-index of 67. Dr. Löffler is a fellow of the American Academy of Microbiology.