I am Professor of Environmental Microbiology.  My research spans the areas of microbial ecology and technology with a special interest in biofilm science and engineering: elucidating cellular-level and ecological processes, which occur in natural and engineered biofilms, and developing and exploiting biofilm-based bioreactor systems. My research group uses both advanced microscopic and molecular tools as well as computational approaches to study fundamental and applied microbial ecological questions.
 
Microbial Resource Management and Engineering -- the bridge between environmental engineering and microbial ecology -- is the central tenet in all we do. This translates in an seemingly wide range of research topics: Biotechnological processes for water and soil remediation; biofilm reactor technology; nitrogen cycling: applications and fundamentals; microbial molecular ecology of polluted habitats, symbioses, and waste treatment systems; biocatalyis & biodegradation of xenobiotics; bacterial adhesion & biofilm formation; horizontal gene transfer in microbial communities; mathematical modelling of microbial processes and interactions; bioreactor design and analysis; biotechnology and the new wastewater management paradigm.

I coordinate the Microbial Ecology Research Group (http://www.env.dtu.dk/Forskning.aspx) at DTU Environment. My official, slightly dull, webpages can be found here:www.staff.dtu.dk/bfsm.