Christopher RensingDr. Christopher Rensing is Distinguished Professor and Director of the Institute of Environmental Microbiology. He was born in Princeton, New Jersey but grew up and studied in Germany. He received his PhD at the Free University in Berlin in 1996. Aftr doing a postdoc with Prof. Barry Rosen at Wayne State University in Detroit, he accepted a faculty position at the University of Arizona in 1999. After promotion to Associate Professor he later accepted a position of Full Professor at the University of Copenhagen in 2012. Finally, he accepted his present position in 2016. The main emphasis of his research is understanding metal-microbe interactions. He has published around 200 peer-reviewed publications with 15,126 citations. He is Associate Editor of Frontiers in Microbiology and Editorial Board member of Applied and Environmental Microbiology. Read More Read Less