Kai-Uwe Hinrichs is a German biogeochemist and organic geochemist known for his research of microbial life below the ocean bed – the

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. He earned his PhD in organic geochemistry from

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in Germany in 1997. He teaches and conducts research at

University of Bremen The University of Bremen (German: ''Universität Bremen'') is a public university in Bremen, Germany, with approximately 23,500 people from 115 countries. It is one of 11 institutions which were successful in the category "Institutional Strategi ...

as head, Organic Chemistry Group at the MARUM Center for Marine Environmental Sciences. Hinrichs was co-chief scientist of

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(JAMSTEC) Expedition 337 on board the drilling vessel

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, which set a world record for scientific drilling, reaching 2,111 meters below the seafloor off Shimokita Peninsula of Japan in the northwest Pacific Ocean. Hinrichs serves on the Executive Committee of the Deep Carbon Observatory. Since 2011, Hinrichs has been a member of the ''Board of Reviewing Editors'' of

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Honors

In 2011, Hinrichs was awarded the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize by the

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. Hinrichs is also a two-times recipient of the Advanced Grant by the European Research Council (DARCLIFE project, 2009 competition; ZooMecular project, 2014 competition).

References

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