Andrea Koerdt Editor

Andrea Koerdt is Senior Scientist and project leader of the Microbiologically Influenced Corrosion (MIC) project at Bundesanstalt für Materialforschung und –prüfung (BAM), Germany. Since 2016 she has been conducting research at BAM on corrosive methanogenic archaea and sulfate reducing bacteria. She coordinates a team of scientists on MIC and collaborates with industrial and academic partners. She received her PhD from the Max Planck Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology.

Judit Knisz is Senior Research Scientist at the Faculty of Water Sciences, Ludovika University of Public Service, Hungary, where she leads the Environmental Microbiology Research Group. Her research focuses on microbiologically influenced corrosion (MIC) in drinking water and industrial cooling water systems, applying molecular and microbiological methods and advocating the multiple lines of evidence (MLOE) approach to improve diagnostics and mitigation. She holds a PhD in Biology from the University of Pécs, Hungary.

Scott Wade joined Swinburne University of Technology as an Associate Professor in 2009. He was awarded a PhD from Victoria University of Technology in 2001 for research on optical fibre based temperature sensors. Prior to joining Swinburne University he held research positions at a number of universities in the UK and Australia where he worked on applied research including the development of sensing techniques and corrosion studies. He is leading a research team investigating various aspects of corrosion, including microbiologically influenced corrosion, accelerated low water corrosion and corrosion sensing.

Elisabete Silva is Assistant Researcher at the BioSystems & Integrative Sciences Institute (BIOISI) and an invited Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Sciences of the University of Lisbon. She completed her PhD in Chemical Engineering in December 2009 at the University of Lisbon/Instituto Superior Técnico (IST).