Poster #35 - Kostas Konstantinidis

Georgia Institute of Technology, United States

Biography

Dr. Kostas Konstantinidis joined the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology as an assistant professor in November 2007, and has held the Maulding Faculty Fellow Chair in Environmental Engineering since September 2012. His education and research interests are at the interface of environmental microbiology with engineering, genomics and computational biology. The overarching goal of his research is to broaden our understanding of the genetic and metabolic diversity of the smallest organisms on the planet, the bacteria and archaea, and the role of this diversity for ecosystem function and resilience to natural as well as anthropogenic perturbations. He has published more than 92 peerreviewed articles, ten in PNAS alone, and six book chapters in these research areas, which have received in excess of 9,000 citations (Google Scholar). Dr. Konstantinidis has received several national and international distinctions and awards for his work, including the 2010 Skerman Award.