Mike S. M. Jetten

Prof Jetten (1962) is a world leader in the field of environmental microbiology. He did his PhD (1991) on aceticlastic methanogens, followed by a post doc at MIT on metabolic engineering of amino acid producers. From 1994-2000 he was assistant professor at TU Delft on Nitrogen cycle microbiology. Since 2000 he is professor of Microbiology at Radboud University, Nijmegen. He received the prestigious ERC Advanced Grant in 2008 for his research on anammox bacteria, the Spinozapremie in 2012, and a second ERC Advanced grant in 2013 to study the ecology of methane oxidizers. Since 2013 he scientific director of the Gravitation excellence consortium on anaerobic microbiology (Soehngen Institute of anaerobic microbiology). He is a member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Sciences, the European Academy of Microbiology and EMBO. In 2013 he was bestowed with a knighthood for his exceptional services to science and society. In 2017, he was recognized as an exceptional mentor and awarded with best PhD supervisor of the year by the National PhD council in the Netherlands. In 2019 he was awarded an ERC Synergy grant, and in 2022 he received an honorary doctorate from the Delft University of Technology. In 2026 he became guest professor at Lund University. He has published (01/02/2026) more than 600 papers that have been cited more than 93000 times. FWIW H index is 147. He has supervised 73 PhD candidates and 43 post docs, and 4 PhD students and 2 post docs are currently working at the Raboud University microbiology laboratories. In September 2015, his team started the first Microbiology master education in the Netherlands. He has been invited more than 300 times for keynote lectures