Invited Speakers

Prof. Lars Peter Nielsen

Lars Peter Nielsen is Professor of Microbial Ecology and since 2017 head of Center for Electromicrobiology at Aarhus University. The present focal point is electron conduction, metabolism, and ecology of cable bacteria, including interactions with other electro-active microbes.

He holds a PhD degree from Aarhus University, 1989, and before stumbling on electric currents in the sea bottom 10 years ago, he mainly studied filamentous, sulfide oxidizing bacteria, denitrification in aquatic environments, and biological controls of odor and gas emissions from agricultural systems.

Presently he is member of Independent Research Fund Denmark | Technology and Production Sciences and he was co-founder of the sensor company Unisense a/s.