Julie Cosmidis is a geomicrobiologist leading the Microbe-Mineral Lab in the Department of Earth Sciences. Her research focuses on deciphering the fundamental biological mechanisms controlling microbial biomineralisation, the process by which bacteria form minerals. The lab pioneers new methodologies that integrate high-throughput experimentation, in-situ mineral analysis, machine learning, and molecular techniques. As part of Oxford EARTH, her group’s goal is to develop new microbial strategies for the recovery of metals and other critical resources from environmental and waste streams, and to advance new applications of microbial biomineralisation for sustainable material biomanufacturing. To achieve this, her lab will work closely with bioengineers at Oxford while drawing on the expertise of the Oxford EARTH community in sustainable resource management.
