Alfred M. Spormann is the Founding Director of the Novo Nordisk Foundation CO2 Research Center (CORC) at Aarhus University. He is a microbial physiologist and biochemist. He has been a Professor at Stanford University for the past 28 years in the Departments of Chemical Engineering, and of Civil and Environmental Engineering, as well as of Biology, and of Geological and Environmental Sciences.
Prof. Spormann’s primary research interest is in metabolism, in particular on the CO2 metabolism of anaerobic microorganisms.
Prof. Spormann’s research group has been extensively studying acetogenic bacteria, methanogens, and chain-elongating bacteria including for direct and indirect electron uptake via electrosynthetic systems. Ongoing research includes metabolic fluxes of electrons and network wiring, electron transfer in redox enzymes, cellular resource allocation as a function of growth, the metabolic basis of parallel metabolism as well as slow growth and stationary phase physiology.
