EUROPEAN FEDERATION OF BIOTECHNOLOGY: EXBO Members

Dr. Thomas W. Egli

Swiss Federal Institute for Water Resources
and Water Pollution Control (EAWAG)
Überlandstrasse 133
P.O. Box 611
CH-8600 Dübendorf
Phone +41 - 1 823 51 58; Fax +41 - 01 823 55 47
E-mail egli@eawag.ch

Dr. Thomas W. Egli
Chairman of the EFB Section on Environmental Biotechnology

Short Curriculum Vitae

Education and qualifications:
Trained as a Natural Scientist at the ETH Zürich (Biochemistry / Microbiology); PhD at ETH Zürich, Department of Microbiology (Prof. A. Fiechter), followed by a one and a half year stay at the Department of Microbiology as a Senior Research Fellow with Prof. J. R. Quayle, FRS, University of Sheffield, GB.

Present position:
Since 1982 Senior Scientist at the Swiss Federal Institute for Water Resources and Water Pollution Control (EAWAG) at Dübendorf (now Vice-Head of the Department of Environmental Microbiology and Molecular Ecotoxicology). Privatdozent (Associate Professor) at ETH Zürich and Guest Lecturer at the University of Basel.

Other main activities:
Managing Editor of the Journal "Biodegradation". Swiss Representative for the "European Federation of Biotechnology Section on Microbial Physiology" and Swiss Representative for the OECD Working Party on Biotechnology (subgroup bioremediation / bioprevention; drinking water activity), Member of the Working Party on Applied Microbiology of the Swiss Society for Microbiology.

Main research areas:
Microbial (eco)physiology - biodegradation and metabolism of pollutants, in particular components of laundry detergents - growth kinetics - microbial adaptation processes- mixed substrate utilization - multiple nutrient limitations - growth at low nutrient concentrations - drinking water microbiology - starvation and survival - microbial production of "bioplastic" (PHAs, PHB/HVs).

Membership:
Member of the Swiss Society for Microbiology, Society for General Microbiology (GB), American Society for Microbiology.

Academic Honors:
4-Year study grant from Hoffmann-LaRoche AG - Senior Research Fellowship from the Science and Research Council, GB, to work with Prof. Dr. J.R. Quayle, FRS - Short Term Fellowship from the "European Environmental Research Organization (EERO) for a collaboration on microbial stress proteins with Prof. Dr. W. Harder, TNO Delft, The Netherlands - Gold medal for best poster from the Swiss Society for Microbiology at the Annual Meeting, Zürich 1992 - First Prize for best poster from the Swiss Society for Microbiology at the Annual Meeting, Zürich 2000. Selected to represent innovative Swiss Science at the scientific fare "BIO2001" at San Diego, U.S.A. (presenting the SPP-Project "Bioplastic").

Publication record:
Approximately 100 original publications in peer-reviewed journals, some 10 major review articles and book chapters and some 20 contributions to conference proceedings.

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