Antje Boetius, winner of the 2019 Erna Hamburger Prize
The EPFL-WISH Foundation will award this year's Erna Hamburger Prize to German marine biologist Antje Boetius. The 2019 Erna Hamburger Prize will go to Antje Boetius, a professor at the University of Bremen's prestigious Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology and the head of the Alfred Wegener Institute at the Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research. Prof. Boetius has had an exceptional career in marine biology research since completing her studies at the University of Hamburg. A staunch climate advocate, she received Germany's Federal Cross of Merit in 2019 and was recently appointed as a climate advisor to the German government. The Erna Hamburger Prize is awarded every year by the EPFL-WISH Foundation to an influential woman in science. The award is named after Erna Hamburger, who, when she was hired by EPFL in 1967, became the first female professor at a Swiss federal institute of technology. One of Prof. Boetius's breakthroughs was to describe the anaerobic oxidation of methane.
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