Filip Meysman is Professor (Hoogleraar) at the Universiteit Antwerpen (Faculty of Applied Sciences, Department of Biology) and part-time researcher the Delft University of Technology (Faculty of Applied Sciences, Department of Biotechnology). He has a multidisciplinary background in both chemistry (MSc Chemical Engineering, KU Leuven) and biology (MSc Marine Biology, Ghent University), and is an internationally recognized expert in marine biogeochemistry and microbial ecology.

Meysman heads the newly founded GeoBiology research group. His research team (24 members) investigates the microbial ecology of natural seafloor environments, embracing interdisciplinary approaches (biology-chemistry-physics). In recent projects, he’s investigating how marine sediments can be used to sequester CO2 from the atmosphere (negative CO2 emissions) and he’s looking at the intriguing and exciting phenomenon of microbial electricity in the ocean floor. A particular goal is to develop highly conductive protein materials from electrogenic microbes to obtain new bioelectronic technologies.