Biografie

since 2012

University of Potsdam, Institute of Earth and Environmental Science, Postdoc

2008-2011

Helmholtz Centre Potsdam, GFZ, German Research Centre for Geosciences, Postdoc

2007-2008

University of Hamburg, Postdoc

2003-2007

University of Hamburg, Ph.D. student (Microbiology)

2003

University of Hamburg, Diploma in Biology (Microbiology)

1997-2003

University of Hamburg, Studies in Microbiology, Biochemistry, Hydrobiology

Publikationen

ISI-Listed publications

Lerm, S., M. Alawi, R. Miethling-Graff, M. Wolfgramm, K. Rauppach, A. Seibt, and H. Wuerdemann. 2011. Influence of microbial processes on the operation of a cold store in a shallow aquifer: impact on well injectivity and filter lifetime. Grundwasser 16:93-104.

Alawi, M., S. Lerm, A. Vetter, M. Wolfgramm, A. Seibt, and H. Wuerdemann. 2011. Diversity of sulfate-reducing bacteria in a plant using deep geothermal energy. Grundwasser 16:105-112.

Off, S., M. Alawi, and E. Spieck. 2010. Enrichment and Physiological Characterization of a Novel Nitrospira-Like Bacterium Obtained from a Marine Sponge. Applied and Environmental Microbiology 76:4640-4646.

Morozova, D., M. Wandrey, M. Alawi, M. Zimmer, A. Vieth, M. Zettlitzer, H. Wuerdemann, and C. S. Grp. 2010. Monitoring of the microbial community composition in saline aquifers during CO(2) storage by fluorescence in situ hybridisation. International Journal of Greenhouse Gas Control 4:981-989.

Alawi, M., Off, S, Kaya, M. and E. Spieck. 2009. Temperature influences the population structure of nitrite-oxidizing bacteria in activated sludge. Environmental Microbiology Reports 1:(3)184–190

Lebedeva, E. V., M. Alawi, F. Maixner, P. G. Jozsa, H. Daims, and E. Spieck. 2008. Physiological and phylogenetic characterization of a novel lithoautotrophic nitrite-oxidizing bacterium, 'Candidatus Nitrospira bockiana'. International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology 58:242-250.

Gebert, J., N. Stralis-Pavese, M. Alawi, and L. Bodrossy. 2008. Analysis of methanotrophic communities in landfill biofilters using diagnostic microarray. Environmental Microbiology 10:1175-1188.

Alawi, M., A. Lipski, T. Sanders, P. Eva Maria, and E. Spieck. 2007. Cultivation of a novel cold-adapted nitrite oxidizing betaproteobacterium from the Siberian Arctic. ISME J 1:256-264.

Lebedeva, E. V., M. Alawi, C. Fiencke, B. Namsaraev, E. Bock, and E. Spieck. 2005. Moderately thermophilic nitrifying bacteria from a hot spring of the Baikal rift zone. Fems Microbiology Ecology 54:297-306.