Professor Christof D. Meile received his PhD 2003 from Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands. Since 2018 he has been a professor at University of Georgia in the Department of Marine Sciences.

His research emphasis is on: reactive-transport modeling and biogeochemical cycling bioturbation, microbial metabolism, in silico microbial models and upscaling, nutrient dynamics and human impacts at the land-ocean interface, salt marsh carbon and groundwater dynamics, iron cycling and redox oscillations, hydrothermal vents, oil spill impacts.

Research interests of The Meile Lab encompass a wide variety of environmental systems - ranging from groundwater to marine sediment and hydrothermal vents - and cover spatial scales from micrometers (microbial scale) to kilometers (marsh settings), and time scales from seconds to thousands of years. They integrate process-based knowledge from different disciplines into numerical reactive-transport models, to test our understanding of the natural environment, to reason on natural variability and, potentially, predict responses to natural variations and human activity.

Recurring themes include nutrient dynamics and microbial metabolism at the land-ocean interface and in marine sediments, the fate of methane in aquatic systems, and the response of aquatic systems to perturbations.