Derek R. Lovley

Research.com Recognitions

• 2026 - Research.com Biology and Biochemistry in United States Leader Award
• 2025 - Research.com Best Scientists Award
• 2025 - Research.com Biology and Biochemistry in United States Leader Award
• 2014 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
• 2004 - Dupont Industrial Biosciences Award in Applied and Environmental Microbiology, American Society for Microbiology

Overview

Best Publications

• Extracellular electron transfer via microbial nanowires.

  Gemma Reguera;Kevin D. McCarthy;Teena Mehta;Julie S. Nicoll

  3087
  Citations

• ELECTRICITY PRODUCTION BY GEOBACTER SULFURREDUCENS ATTACHED TO ELECTRODES

  Daniel R. Bond;Derek R. Lovley

  2894
  Citations

• Novel mode of microbial energy metabolism: organic carbon oxidation coupled to dissimilatory reduction of iron or manganese.

  Derek R. Lovley;Elizabeth J. P. Phillips

  2856
  Citations

• Dissimilatory Fe(III) and Mn(IV) reduction.

  Derek Lovley

  2437
  Citations

• Electricity generation by direct oxidation of glucose in mediatorless microbial fuel cells

  Swades K Chaudhuri;Derek R Lovley

  2158
  Citations

• Humic substances as electron acceptors for microbial respiration

  Derek R. Lovley;John D. Coates;Elizabeth L. Blunt-Harris;Elizabeth J. P. Phillips

  2142
  Citations

• Electrode-Reducing Microorganisms That Harvest Energy from Marine Sediments

  Daniel R. Bond;Dawn E. Holmes;Leonard M. Tender;Derek R. Lovley

  1944
  Citations

• Dissimilatory Fe(III) and Mn(IV) reduction.

  Derek R Lovley;Dawn E Holmes;Kelly P Nevin

  1873
  Citations

• Microbial reduction of uranium

  Derek R. Lovley;Elizabeth J. P. Phillips;Yuri A. Gorby;Edward R. Landa

  1814
  Citations

• Bug juice: harvesting electricity with microorganisms

  Derek R. Lovley

  1782
  Citations

• Organic matter mineralization with reduction of ferric iron in anaerobic sediments.

  Derek R. Lovley;Elizabeth J. P. Phillips

  1758
  Citations

• A new model for electron flow during anaerobic digestion: direct interspecies electron transfer to Methanosaeta for the reduction of carbon dioxide to methane

  Amelia-Elena Rotaru;Pravin Malla Shrestha;Fanghua Liu;Minita Shrestha

  1426
  Citations

• Dissimilatory Metal Reduction

  Derek R. Lovley

  1345
  Citations

• Geobacter metallireducens gen. nov. sp. nov., a microorganism capable of coupling the complete oxidation of organic compounds to the reduction of iron and other metals.

  D. R. Lovley;S. J. Giovannoni;D. C. White;J. E. Champine

  1216
  Citations

• Anaerobic production of magnetite by a dissimilatory iron-reducing microorganism

  Derek R. Lovley;John F. Stolz;Gordon L. Nord;Elizabeth J. P. Phillips

  1194
  Citations

• Stimulating the in situ activity of Geobacter species to remove uranium from the groundwater of a uranium-contaminated aquifer.

  Robert T. Anderson;Helen A. Vrionis;Irene Ortiz-Bernad;Charles T. Resch

  1160
  Citations

• Rapid assay for microbially reducible ferric iron in aquatic sediments.

  Derek R. Lovley;Elizabeth J. P. Phillips

  1127
  Citations

• Geobacter sulfurreducens sp. nov. , a hydrogen- and acetate-oxidizing dissimilatory metal-reducing microorganism

  F Caccavo;D J Lonergan;D R Lovley;M Davis

  1101
  Citations

• Microbial Electrosynthesis: Feeding Microbes Electricity To Convert Carbon Dioxide and Water to Multicarbon Extracellular Organic Compounds

  Kelly P. Nevin;Trevor L. Woodard;Ashley E. Franks;Zarath M. Summers

  1068
  Citations

• Direct exchange of electrons within aggregates of an evolved syntrophic coculture of anaerobic bacteria.

  Zarath M. Summers;Heather E. Fogarty;Ching Leang;Ashley E. Franks

  993
  Citations