Publications

1. E. M. Muehe, T. Wang, C. Kerl, B. Planer-Friedrich, S. Fendorf; Nature Communications 2019; 10(1), 1-10; Rice production threats from coupled stresses of climate and soil arsenic.
   
2. S. Abramova, J. He, D. Wimmer, M.-L. Lemloh, E. M. Muehe, B. Gann, E. Roehm, R. Kirchhof, M. G. Babechuk, R. Schoenberg, H. Thorwarth, T. Helle, A. Kappler; Waste Management 2018, 79, 735-743; Heavy metal mobility and valuable contents of processed municipal solid waste incineration residues from Southwestern Germany.
   
3. R. Yan, A. Kappler, E. M. Muehe, K.-H. Knorr, M. A. Horn, A. Poser, R. Lohmayer, S. Peiffer; Geomicrobiology Journal 2018; Effect of reduced sulfur species on chemolithoautotrophic pyrite oxidation with nitrate.
   
4. J. E. Forsyth, M. S. Islam, S. M. Parvez, R. Raqib, M. S. Rahman, E. M. Muehe, S. Fendorf, S. P. Luby; Environmental Research 2018, 166, 1-9; Prevalence of elevated blood lead levels among pregnant women and sources of lead exposure in rural Bangladesh.
   
5. E. M. Muehe, G. Morin, L. Scheer, P Le Pape, I. Esteve, B. Daus, A. Kappler; Environmental Science and Technology 2016; 50(5), 2281-2291; Arsenic(V) incorporation in vivianite during microbial reduction of arsenic(V)-bearing biogenic Fe(III) (oxyhydr)oxides.
   
6. E. M. Muehe, C. Schmidt, J. He, T. Helle, A. Kappler; Advanced Materials Research, 2015, 1130, 652-655; Microbially supported recovery of precious metals and rare earth elements from urban household waste incineration slag.
   
7. E. M. Muehe, P. Weigold, I. J. Adaktylou, B. Planer-Friedrich, U. Krämer, A. Kappler, S. Behrens; Applied and Environmental Microbiology 2015; 81(6), 2173-2181; Rhizosphere microbial community composition affects cadmium and zinc uptake of the metal-hyperaccumulating plant Arabidopsis halleri.
   
8. E. M. Muehe, A. Kappler, C. Chaban, B. Daus, Bio-protocol 2015; 5(8), e1445. http://www.bio-protocol.org/e1445; Measuring the arsenic content and speciation in different rice tissues.
   
9. E. M. Muehe and A. Kappler; invited review for the research front on arsenic for Environmental Chemistry 2014; 11, 483–495; Arsenic mobility and toxicity in South and Southeast Asia – a review on biogeochemistry, health and socio-economic effects, remediation and risk predictions.
   
10. E. M. Muehe, J. Eisele, B. Daus, A. Kappler, K. Harter, C. Chaban; Plant Molecular Biology 2014; 85(3), 301-316; Are rice (Oryza sativa L.) phosphate transporters regulated similarly by phosphate and arsenate? – a comprehensive study.
    
11. E. M. Muehe, M. Obst, A. Hitchcock, T. Tylsizczak, S. Behrens, C. Schroeder, J. M. Byrne, M. Michel, U. Kraemer, A. Kappler; Environmental Science and Technology 2013; 47, 14099-14109; Fate of Cd during microbial Fe(III) mineral reduction by a novel and Cd-tolerant Geobacter species.
    
12. E. M. Muehe, I. J. Adaktylou, M. Obst, F. Zeitvogel, S. Behrens, B. Planer-Friedrich, U. Kraemer, A. Kappler; Environmental Science and Technology 2013; 47, 13430−13439; Organic carbon and reducing conditions lead to cadmium immobilization by secondary Fe mineral formation in a pH-neutral soil.
    
13. E. M. Muehe, L. Scheer, B. Daus, A. Kappler; Environmental Science and Technology 2013; 47, 8297−8307; Fate of arsenic during microbial reduction of biogenic vs. abiogenic As-Fe(III)-mineral co-precipitates.
    
14. S. Kleinert, E. M. Muehe, N. Posth, U. Dippon, B. Daus, A. Kappler; Environmental Science and Technology 2011; 45(17), 7533–7541; Biogenic Fe(III) minerals lower the efficiency of iron mineral-based commercial filter systems for arsenic removal.
    
15. E. M. Muehe, S. Gerhardt, B. Schink, A. Kappler; FEMS Microbiology Ecology 2009; 70(3), 335–343; Ecophysiology and the energetic benefit of mixotrophic Fe(II) oxidation by various strains of nitrate-reducing bacteria.
    

• Participant in the Leadership Academy of the German Scholars Organisation, Boston/Darmstadt, 2018/2019
  
• Participant in the Rising Environmental Leaders Program, Woods Institute, Stanford University, 2018
  
• Participant in the Strategies and Techniques for Analyzing Microbial Population Structure (STAMPS) course at the Marine Biological Laboratory, 2017
  
• Participant as a Young Scientist at the Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting, 2015
  
• Medalist of the German Dissertation Award (Science) (Koerber-Foundation), 2014, awarded with $5,250
  
• Outstanding Dissertation Award, University of Tuebingen, 2014 
  
• Outstanding Dissertation Award, Department of Geosciences, University of Tuebingen, 2014
  
• Medalist for student presentations at SEGH Conference, Toulouse, France, 2013
  
• Medalist for the BIOTECHNICA study award for master theses, 2008, awarded with $1,600
• Outstanding Poster award for master theses, University of Tuebingen, 2007
  

Acquired Funding (major grants only)

• Helmholtz Young Investigator Grant. Sole PI, Project: Rhizosphere Adaptation to Coupled Climate and Heavy Metal Threats.
  
• Baden-Württemberg Foundation's Elite Program for Early Career Researchers. Sole PI, Project: Cadmium impacts on agricultural greenhouse gas emissions.
  
• German Research Foundation (DFG), Co-PI, Project: Biogeochemical coupling of Cd and Fe cycles in agricultural soils under varying redox and geochemical conditions.
  
• Marie-Sklodowska-Curie Individual Global Fellowship of the EU, Sole PI, Project: The impact of climate change on the uptake of arsenic into rice.
  
• German Research Foundation (DFG) Postdoctoral fellowship, Sole PI, Project: The impact of global warming on the uptake of arsenic into rice plants.
  
• Central Innovation Programme for small/medium enterprises of the German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy, Co-PI, Project: Recovery of economically valuable metals from incineration slag using enriched microbial consortia from different environments.
  
• German Federal Environmental Foundation (DBU) PhD fellowship, Sole PI, Project: Impact of mineral-forming and dissolving bacteria on the uptake and accumulation of cadmium in Arabidopsis halleri.