Lennart De Nooijer
Lennart de Nooijer is a research leader at the Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research (NIOZ). He obtained his PhD degree at Utrecht University in 2007 and has since then been working on biomineralization in foraminifera, sponge bioerosion and coral reefs. He has been working at leading marine research institutes like JAMSTEC (Japan) and AWI (Germany) before obtaining a permanent position in The Netherlands. His most notable work is on the experimental characterization of the biological mechanisms that allow organisms to transform seawater into crystalline calcium carbonate. This includes the use of confocal laser scanning microscopy and high-resolution calcite chemical (elemental and isotopic) analysis of foraminiferal calcite.
