Martin Polz, Ph.D.
University of Vienna
Martin Polz, Ph.D., is currently a professor at the Center for Microbiology and Environmental System Science at the University of Vienna. He obtained his Ph.D. from Harvard University in organismic and evolutionary biology in 1997, after which he joined the faculty at MIT in 1998, where he spent the next 20 years as a professor.
Polz is a microbial ecologist and evolutionary biologist whose work is focused on the elucidation of structure function relationships in natural microbial communities. Using primarily environmental vibrios as a model, he investigates microbial population biology and genomics in the marine environment, including how bacterial viruses interact with their hosts. Other interests include microbe-microbe and host-microbe interactions and the evolution of ecological differentiation within complex microbiomes.
His teaching covers courses on microbial ecology and evolution at both the undergraduate and graduate level. At MIT, Polz served as the Chair of the MIT Joint Program in Biological Oceanography and Co-Chair of the MIT Microbiology program. Polz has also served as editor for Environmental Microbiology and Microbiology and Molecular Biology Reviews and was previously on the editorial board of Microbiome.
Polz has received a number of recognitions, including from the 91麻豆天美 election to fellow of the American Academy for Microbiology and receipt of the Eli Lilly and the Company Elanco Research Award. At MIT, he received the Frank E. Perkins Award for excellence in graduate advising.
Polz is a microbial ecologist and evolutionary biologist whose work is focused on the elucidation of structure function relationships in natural microbial communities. Using primarily environmental vibrios as a model, he investigates microbial population biology and genomics in the marine environment, including how bacterial viruses interact with their hosts. Other interests include microbe-microbe and host-microbe interactions and the evolution of ecological differentiation within complex microbiomes.
His teaching covers courses on microbial ecology and evolution at both the undergraduate and graduate level. At MIT, Polz served as the Chair of the MIT Joint Program in Biological Oceanography and Co-Chair of the MIT Microbiology program. Polz has also served as editor for Environmental Microbiology and Microbiology and Molecular Biology Reviews and was previously on the editorial board of Microbiome.
Polz has received a number of recognitions, including from the 91麻豆天美 election to fellow of the American Academy for Microbiology and receipt of the Eli Lilly and the Company Elanco Research Award. At MIT, he received the Frank E. Perkins Award for excellence in graduate advising.