Prof. Dr. Romano Mwirichia Kachiuru

Profile

Academic positionAssociate Professor, Senior Lecturer, Reader
Research fieldsMicrobial Ecology and Applied Microbiology
KeywordsExtremophiles, Biocatalysts, metagenomics
Honours and awards

2011: Georg Foster Postdoctoral Fellowship from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, My host was Prof. Dr. Rolf Daniel, Dept. of Genomic and Applied Microbiology, Georg-August University, Göttingen, Germany.

2010: ASM Fellowship for Africa, My host was Prof. Jo Handelsman, Yale University, USA

2006: DAAD Scholarship for PhD studies (Sandwich Model); My host was Prof. Dr. Erko Stackebrandt, Leibniz Institute DSMZ, German Collection of Microorganisms and Cell Cultures, Inhoffenstraße 7B, 38124 Braunschweig, Germany

Current contact address

CountryKenya
CityEmbu
InstitutionUniversity of Embu
InstituteSchool of Pure and Applied Science

Host during sponsorship

Prof. Dr. Rolf DanielInstitut für Mikrobiologie und Genetik, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Göttingen
Start of initial sponsorship01/05/2011

Programme(s)

2010Georg Forster Research Fellowship Programme for Postdocs