Georgios Kontogeorgis, chairman of CERE, is a chemical engineer and professor in applied thermodynamics & Nikolaj Sorgenfrei Blom, senior researcher at CERE is a Danish biochemist and trans-disciplinary, adventurous scientist.
Nikolaj Sorgenfrei Blom, senior researcher at CERE
is a Danish biochemist and trans-disciplinary, adventurous scientist who has always worked to bridge the gap between academic science and industrial applications – in positions as associate professor, senior department manager and senior specialist. He has authored 30+ peer-reviewed papers, 2 issued patents, an H-index of 25 and more than 7,000 citations.
His deep passion for science and for developing excellent research teams has taken him from supercomputer based gene discovery to microbe hunting in the deep polar seas.
Currently, he is pursuing activities within applied quantum biology – gaining a deeper insight into the connection between water, electromagnetic fields and living systems. This is manifested by a Villum Foundation Experiment grant and collaborations with filmmakers and science communicators such as the Collaboratorium.
Selected interdisciplinary publications:
Complete mitochondrial genome of the Oriental Hornet, Vespa orientalis F. (Hymenoptera: Vespidae).
Haddad, Nizar Jamal; Al-Nakeeb, Kosai Ali Ahmed; Petersen, Bent; Dalén, Love; Sorgenfrei Blom, Nikolaj; Sicheritz-Pontén, Thomas
In: Mitochondrial DNA Part B, Vol. 2, No. 1, 2017, p. 139-140.
The microbiome of New World vultures
M Roggenbuck, IB Schnell, N Blom, J Bælum, MF Bertelsen, TS Pontén, ...
Nature communications 5
Bacterial diversity in snow on North Pole ice floes
AL Hauptmann, M Stibal, J Bælum, T Sicheritz-Pontén, S Brunak, ... N Blom
Extremophiles 18 (6), 945-951
Wide distribution of closely related, antibiotic-producing Arthrobacter strains throughout the Arctic Ocean
Wietz M, Månsson M, Bowman JS, Blom N, Ng Y, Gram L
Appl Environ Microbiol. 2012 Jan 13. [Epub ahead of print] PMID: 22247128
Microbial community structure of Arctic multiyear sea ice and surface seawater by 454 sequencing of the 16S RNA gene
Bowman JS, Rasmussen S, Blom N, Deming JW, Rysgaard S, Sicheritz-Ponten T
ISME J. 2011 Jun 30. doi: 10.1038/ismej.2011.76.
Georgios Kontogeorgis, chairman of CERE
https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgios_Kontogeorgis
is a chemical engineer and professor in applied thermodynamics. He is the author of over 220 peer review publications with 7500 citations, H=48 and 4 books including two monographs (thermodynamics and colloids & interfaces).
He is member of the Danish Research Council of Technology and Production Sciences (2012-2017). He has published numerous scientific articles on thermodynamic models and theories which account for hydrogen bonding phenomena like the ones occurring in water as well as studies on the effect of water structure on its hydrogen bonding properties (obtained from theories and from spectroscopic measurements).
Selected manuscripts on water structure and properties:
Yakoumis, I.V., Kontogeorgis, G.M., Voutsas, E.C., Hendriks, E.M., and Tassios, D.P., 1998. Prediction of phase equilibria in binary aqueous systems containing alkanes, cycloalkanes and alkenes with the Cubic-Plus-Association equation of state Ind. Eng. Chem. Res., 37: 4175-4182.
Von Solms, N., Michelsen, M.L., Passos, C.P., Derawi, S.O. and Kontogeorgis, G.M., 2006. Investigating models for associating fluids using spectroscopy. Ind. Eng. Chem. Res., 45: 5368-5374.
Grenner, A., Kontogeorgis, G.M., Michelsen, M.L. and Folas, G.K., 2007. On the estimation of water pure compound parameters in association theories. Molecular Physics, 105: 1797-1801.
Maribo-Mogensen, B., Kontogeorgis, G. M.; Thomsen, K., 2013. Modeling of dielectric properties of complex fluids with an equation of state. J. Phys. Chem. B., 117(12): 3389-3397.
Liang, X.D., Tsivintzelis, I., Kontogeorgis, G.M., 2014. Modeling water containing systems with the Simplified PC-SAFT and CPA Equations of State. Ind.Eng.Chem.Res.,53(37): 14493-14507.
Liang, X.D., Maribo-Mogensen, B., Tsivintzelis, I., Kontogeorgis, G.M., 2016. A comment on water’s structure using monomer fraction data and theories. Fluid Phase Equilibria, 407: 2-6.