Research output per year
Research output per year
Senior lecturer, Associate Professor, Docent
My broad research interest is in bacterial metabolism and function in environmental settings. I completed by PhD in 2005 in Bacteriology at Queen’s University in Canada and postdoctoral research projects at Health Canada and National Research Council of Canada, and Biotechnology, Faculty of Engineering, at Lund University, Sweden.
I want to understand how their interlocking metabolisms can allow us to change or control how the bacteria are behaving in industrially-related environments, especially biofilms. This understanding will allow us to work together with the bacteria to clean up our natural world: to reduce contamination of drinking water or to degrade chemicals that are contaminating our natural environments. By controlling what growth conditions such as nutrients are available to the microbes, perhaps their interaction with our human-built and urban environments can be steered towards positive outcomes, such as reduction of greenhouse gas emissions or safer drinking water, instead of the other way around. I like to think of this as a prebiotic approach to management of these key microbial ecosystem services.
In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Research output: Book/Report › Report › Popular science
Paul, C. & Sundell, D.
Swedish Civil Contingencies Agency (MSB)
2023/01/02 → 2025/12/31
Project: Research
Suarez Rodriguez, C. & Paul, C.
2023/01/01 → 2026/12/31
Project: Research
Paul, C., Diehl, S., Aspegren, H., Puculek, S., Keucken, A., Jönsson, K., Chan, S., Hedström, A., Dalameh, S., Petterson, T., Bergstedt, O., Norström, A., Larsson, G., Karpousoglou, T., Sandberg, M., Ek, K., Herman, I., Lidelöw, S., Torisson, F., Sundin, A. & Pericault, Y.
FORMAS, The Swedish Research Council for Environment, Agricultural Sciences and Spatial Planning
2023/01/01 → 2027/12/31
Project: Research
Paul, C., Keucken, A. & Hellström, D.
2021/10/01 → 2024/12/31
Project: Research
Paul, C., Rådström, P., Lindhe, A., Murphy, K., Petterson, T., Wiberg, K., Köhler, S. & others, A.
2021/01/01 → 2024/06/30
Project: Research
Catherine Paul (Role not specified)
Activity: Other › Schools engagement
Catherine Paul (Invited speaker)
Activity: Talk or presentation › Invited talk
Catherine Paul (First/primary/lead supervisor) & Carolina Suarez Rodriguez (Supervisory team member)
Activity: Examination and supervision › Supervision of PhD students
Catherine Paul (Peer reviewer)
Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work › Journal/Manuscript peer review
Catherine Paul (First/primary/lead supervisor), Therese Jephson (Supervisory team member) & Kenneth M Persson (Supervisory team member)
Activity: Examination and supervision › Supervision of PhD students