Liane G. Benning | |
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| Alma mater | University of Kiel Swiss Federal Institute of Technology |
| Awards | Royal Society Wolfson Award (2009) Bigsby Medal (2016) Schlumberger Medal (2016) |
| Scientific career | |
| Institutions | Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Pennsylvania State University University of Leeds German Research Centre for Gerosciences, GFZ Free University of Berlin |
Liane G. Benning is a biogeochemist studying mineral-fluid-microbe interface processes. She is a Professor of Interface Geochemistry at the GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences in Potsdam, Germany. Her team studies various processes that shape the Earth Surface with a special focus on two aspects: the nucleation, growth and crystallisation of mineral phases from solution and the role, effects and interplay between microbes and minerals in extreme environments. She is also interested in the characterisation of these systems, developing in situ and time resolved high resolution imaging and spectroscopic techniques to follow microbe-mineral reactions as they occur.