Professor Jens Aamand, Ph.D. is employed at the department of geochemistry, GEUS where he is responsible for the microbiology laboratory. During his employment at GEUS he has been working on development of different remediation technologies for organic pollutants. He has been the leader of several larger research programmes and has specialist experience in project management and organisation. In addition, he is specialist in the promotion of collaboration between scientists working within different research area. During his employment at GEUS he has supervised/supervise 18 Ph.D. students of which 13 work/worked on pesticide degradation in soil and groundwater, one work on biogeochemical processes in aquifers and two work/worked on development of immunological techniques for pesticide analysis. Several master students have been associated to the research. He has been senior researcher at GEUS since January 1995 where his research mainly has focused on immunological detection and microbial degradation of pesticides. He received a M.Sc. degree and a Ph.D. degree in microbial ecology from the University of Copenhagen. Jens Aamand is specialist in microbial ecology and microbial processes in soil and groundwater including degradation of organic chemicals. He has extensive experience in development and use of immunological techniques to be used for quantification of bacteria and pesticides in water. He was affiliated to KU-Life as honoured professor in 2006 within the research area ‘Bioremediation – microbial soil remediation and groundwater protection From March 2012 he is hired as a professor at GEUS within the field of environmental biotechnology.

KEY QUALIFICATIONS

• Specialist in project management, organisation and keeping of accounts
• Specialist in environmental biotechnology contaminant degradation pathways and kinetics
• Specialist in microbial ecology, microbial processes in soil and groundwater, degradation of pollutants at different redox condition.
• Specialist in classical, molecular and immunological techniques for characterisation and quantification of micro-organisms in the environment.
• Expert knowledge about research and development of microbial remediation techniques for treatment of contaminated soil and groundwater.
• Expert knowledge about natural geochemical redox processes and their influence on the microbial community structure.
• Extensive experience in effects of geology and hydrology on transport and degradation of pollutants.

PROFESSIONAL CAREER

ADMINISTRATIVE AND ORGANISATIONAL SKILLS

SUPERVISION OF PHD STUDENTS

• Frederik Bak (2019) Microbiota in preferential flow paths (PhD-thesis)
• Urse Schell Krüger (2018) Small-scale spatial distribution of pesticide mineralisation activity in structured soils (PhD-thesis)
• Elin Djurhuus Joensen (on-going) Characterisation of surface-colonising herbicide-degrading bacteria (PhD-thesis)
• Sarka Vaclavkova (on-going) Microbial oxidation of pyrite in anaerobic groundwater aquifers (PhD-thesis)
• Lea Ellegaard (2012) Fungal degradation of pesticides – construction of microbial consortia for bioremediation (PhD-thesis)
• Berit Elkær Knudsen (2013) Bacterial degradation of pesticides –construction of microbial consortia for bioremediation (PhD-thesis)
• Basil Uttupu (2012) Immunological sensors for on-line measurement of pesticides in water (PhD-thesis)
• Meric Batioglu Pazarbasi (2012) The role of spatial heterogeneity as a limiting factor for pesticide biodegradation in contaminated aquifers (PhD-thesis)
• Erkin Gözdereliler (2012) Unravelling the microbiological limitations for degradation of low pesticide concentrationsin aquifers (PhD-thesis)
• Nora Badawi (2012) Microscale heterogeneity and its influence on soil contaminant degradation, metabolite formation and leaching to the groundwater (PhD-thesis)
• Allan Simonsen (2011) Mechanisms and adaptive processes underlying microbial degradation of ecological relevant contaminant concentrations (PhD-thesis).
• Ole Sjøholm (2010) Activity and distribution of BAM degraders in soil (PhD-thesis).
• Stig Rønhede (2007) Synergism between fungi and bacteria in mineralisation of pesticides in soil (PhD-thesis).
• Maria Sommer Holtze (2005) Degradation of the herbicide dichlobenil and its metabolite 2,6-dichlorobenzamide (BAM) in soil and bacterial cultures (PhD-thesis).
• Helle Johannesen (2002) Microbial degradation of herbicides aged in soil or aquifer sediments (PhD-thesis)
• Sebastian Reinhold Sørensen (2002) Metabolism of phenylurea compounds by indigenous bacteria from aquifer chalk, agricultural soil and stream sediment (PhD-thesis)
• Julia Radnoti de Lipthay (2001) Acclimation of natural microbial communities to phenoxyalcanoic acid herbicides (PhD-thesis)
• Lise Larsen (2000) Degradation of herbicides in groundwater under different redox conditions (PhD-thesis)
• Leif Bruun (2000) Development and implementation of new immunochemical methods for measuring pesticides and their degradation products in groundwater (PhD-thesis).