Dr. Marcela Hernandez
International collaborator

Dr. Hernández is an Environmental Microbiologist with a PhD in Natural Resources. In 2010, she received an award from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation to perform her postdoctoral research at the Max Planck Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology, in Marburg, Germany. In 2015, she moved to the UK to become a NERC research fellow in Environmental Microbiology at the University of Southampton. Dr. Hernández is currently doing a research stay as a Humboldt fellow at the Thünen Institute for Biodiversity, Braunschweig, Germany. Her career is dedicated to studying how microbial communities establish in soils perturbed either by human manipulation or natural disturbance, specifically methanogens in paddy rice soils, carbon monoxide oxidisers in volcanic soils and antimicrobial resistance in agricultural soils. She uses high-throughput sequencing and stable-isotope probing to assess community diversity and function. Dr. Hernández is editor of the Journal of Applied Microbiology, member of the Executive Committee of the Society for Applied Microbiology, U.K. and Chinese Academy of Science (CAS) visiting professor at the Institute of Soil Science CAS-Nanjing, China.

Research lines

• Methanogens in paddy rice soils

• Bacteria in volcanic soils

• Antibiotic resistance of soil bacteria

Contact 

m.t.hernandez-garcia@soton.ac.uk