Jan Roelof van der Meer

Academic Education

B.Sc in Environmental Sciences, Wageningen Agricultural University, The Netherlands, 1983

M.Sc. in Environmental Sciences, Wageningen Agricultural University, The Netherlands, 1986

Ph.D. in Microbiology, Cum Laude, Wageningen Agricultural University, The Netherlands, 1992 (Advisors: Prof. Willem de Vos, Prof. Alexander J. B. Zehnder)

Employment history

2012 - present Full Professor in Environmental Microbiology, Department of Fundamental Microbiology, University of Lausanne, Switzerland

2006 - 2011 Associate Professor in Environmental Microbiology, Department of Fundamental Microbiology, University of Lausanne, Switzerland

2003 - 2006 Assistant Professor in Environmental Microbiology, Department of Fundamental Microbiology, University of Lausanne, Switzerland

1992 - 2003 Junior and Senior Group Leader, Department of Environmental Microbiology and Molecular Ecotoxicology, Swiss Federal Institute for Environmental Science and Technology (EAWAG), Switzerland

1991 - 1992 Postdoctoral Research Assistant, Department of Biophysical Chemistry, National Institute for Dairy Research, Ede, The Netherlands

1987 - 1991 Research Assistant, Department of Microbiology, Wageningen Agricultural University, Wageningen, The Netherlands.