OAK RIDGE, Tenn., March 30, 2016 – Frank Loeffler, University of Tennessee (UT)-Oak Ridge National Laboratory Governor's Chair for Microbiology and Civil and Environmental Engineering, has been elected fellow of the American Academy of Microbiology.
Loeffler is an environmental microbiologist whose research centers on the environment, ecosystems and environmental health. He studies how naturally occurring bacteria break down pollutants like chlorinated solvents, radioactive wastes and greenhouse gases.
Loeffler works in the Biosciences Division at ORNL, a Department of Energy national laboratory, and holds a joint appointment in the UT department of microbiology and the department of civil and environmental engineering.
The academy is the honorific leadership group within the American Society for Microbiology. Loeffler will be officially recognized at the academy's reception in Massachusetts in June.
UT-Battelle manages ORNL for the Department of Energy's Office of Science. The Office of Science is the single largest supporter of basic research in the physical sciences in the United States, and is working to address some of the most pressing challenges of our time. For more information, please visit http://energy.gov/science/.
