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2025

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84
Citations
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778
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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2025 - Research.com Chemistry in Netherlands Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Chemistry in Netherlands Leader Award

Overview

Ellen C. Hopmans is affiliated with the Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research in the Netherlands. Their research focuses primarily on environmental science and earth and planetary sciences, with notable contributions to subfields such as ecology, molecular biology, environmental chemistry, atmospheric science, and oceanography.

Their research topics encompass a variety of subjects, including:

  • Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology
  • Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena
  • Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
  • Metabolomics and Mass Spectrometry Studies
  • Marine and coastal ecosystems
  • Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies
  • Hydrocarbon exploration and reservoir analysis

Hopmans has published extensively, contributing to well-regarded scientific venues. Frequent publication venues include:

  • 30th International Meeting on Organic Geochemistry (IMOG 2021)
  • Organic Geochemistry
  • Publishing Network for Geoscientific and Environmental Data (PANGAEA) (Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research)
  • Frontiers in Microbiology
  • Biogeosciences

Their work often features collaboration with frequent co-authors such as Jaap S. Sinninghe Damsté, Nicole J. Bale, Laura Villanueva, Stefan Schouten, and Darci Rush.

Recent publications include:

  • Bridging the membrane lipid divide: bacteria of the FCB group superphylum have the potential to synthesize archaeal ether lipids (2020, The ISME Journal)
  • Lipidomics of Environmental Microbial Communities. I: Visualization of Component Distributions Using Untargeted Analysis of High-Resolution Mass Spectrometry Data (2021, Frontiers in Microbiology)
  • Distinguishing the molecular diversity, nutrient content, and energetic potential of exometabolomes produced by macroalgae and reef-building corals (2022, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences)
  • The absence of intact polar lipid-derived GDGTs in marine waters dominated by Marine Group II: Implications for lipid biosynthesis in Archaea (2020, Scientific Reports)
  • Seasonal and multi-annual variation in the abundance of isoprenoid GDGT membrane lipids and their producers in the water column of a meromictic equatorial crater lake (Lake Chala, East Africa) (2021, Quaternary Science Reviews)

This body of work reflects a consistent focus on the roles and characteristics of lipids in microbial and environmental contexts, often employing advanced mass spectrometry and lipidomics approaches to better understand microbial ecology and biogeochemical processes.

Best Publications

  • Distributional variations in marine crenarchaeotal membrane lipids: a new tool for reconstructing ancient sea water temperatures?

    Stefan Schouten;Ellen C. Hopmans;Enno Schefuß;Jaap S. Sinninghe Damsté

  • Abundance and diversity of denitrifying and anammox bacteria in seasonally hypoxic and sulfidic sediments of the saline lake Grevelingen

    Yvonne A. Lipsewers;Ellen C. Hopmans;Filip J. R. Meysman;Jaap S. Sinninghe Damsté

  • A novel proxy for terrestrial organic matter in sediments based on branched and isoprenoid tetraether lipids

    Ellen C Hopmans;Johan W.H Weijers;Enno Schefuß;Lydie Herfort

  • The organic geochemistry of glycerol dialkyl glycerol tetraether lipids: A review

    Stefan Schouten;Ellen C. Hopmans;Jaap S. Sinninghe Damsté

  • Environmental controls on bacterial tetraether membrane lipid distribution in soils

    Johan W.H. Weijers;Stefan Schouten;Jurgen C. van den Donker;Ellen C. Hopmans

  • New indices and calibrations derived from the distribution of crenarchaeal isoprenoid tetraether lipids: Implications for past sea surface temperature reconstructions

    Jung-Hyun Kim;Jaap van der Meer;Stefan Schouten;Peer Helmke

  • Crenarchaeol: the characteristic core glycerol dibiphytanyl glycerol tetraether membrane lipid of cosmopolitan pelagic crenarchaeota.

    Jaap S Sinninghe Damsté;Stefan Schouten;Ellen C Hopmans;Adri C T van Duin

  • Northern Hemisphere Controls on Tropical Southeast African Climate During the Past 60,000 Years

    Jessica E. Tierney;James M. Russell;Yongsong Huang;Jaap S. Sinninghe Damsté

  • The effect of improved chromatography on GDGT-based palaeoproxies

    Ellen C. Hopmans;Stefan Schouten;Jaap S. Sinninghe Damsté

  • An improved method to determine the absolute abundance of glycerol dibiphytanyl glycerol tetraether lipids

    Carme Huguet;Ellen C. Hopmans;Wilma Febo-Ayala;David H. Thompson

  • Occurrence and abundance of 6-methyl branched glycerol dialkyl glycerol tetraethers in soils : Implications for palaeoclimate reconstruction

    Cindy De Jonge;Ellen C. Hopmans;Claudia I. Zell;Jung Hyun Kim

  • Membrane lipids of mesophilic anaerobic bacteria thriving in peats have typical archaeal traits

    Johan W. H. Weijers;Stefan Schouten;Ellen C. Hopmans;Jan A. J. Geenevasen

  • Linearly concatenated cyclobutane lipids form a dense bacterial membrane

    Jaap S. Sinninghe Damsté;Marc Strous;W. Irene C. Rijpstra;Ellen C. Hopmans

  • Analysis of intact tetraether lipids in archaeal cell material and sediments by high performance liquid chromatography/atmospheric pressure chemical ionization mass spectrometry.

    Ellen C. Hopmans;Stefan Schouten;Richard D. Pancost;Marcel T.J. van der Meer

  • Analytical methodology for TEX86 paleothermometry by high-performance liquid chromatography/atmospheric pressure chemical ionization-mass spectrometry.

    Stefan Schouten;Carme Huguet;Ellen C Hopmans;Michiel V M Kienhuis

  • Widespread occurrence of structurally diverse tetraether membrane lipids: Evidence for the ubiquitous presence of low-temperature relatives of hyperthermophiles

    Stefan Schouten;Ellen C. Hopmans;Richard D. Pancost;Jaap S. Sinninghe Damsté

  • Global sediment core-top calibration of the TEX86 paleothermometer in the ocean

    Jung-Hyun Kim;Stefan Schouten;Ellen C. Hopmans;Barbara Donner

  • 13,16-Dimethyl Octacosanedioic Acid (iso-Diabolic Acid), a Common Membrane-Spanning Lipid of Acidobacteria Subdivisions 1 and 3

    Jaap S. Sinninghe Damsté;W. Irene C. Rijpstra;Ellen C. Hopmans;Johan W. H. Weijers

  • Anaerobic ammonium oxidation in the Peruvian oxygen minimum zone

    M. Robert Hamersley;Gaute Lavik;Dagmar Woebken;Jayne E. Rattray

  • Newly discovered non-isoprenoid glycerol dialkyl glycerol tetraether lipids in sediments

    Jaap S. Sinninghe Damsté;Ellen C. Hopmans;Richard D. Pancost;Stefan Schouten

Frequent Co-Authors

Jaap S. Sinninghe Damsté
Jaap S. Sinninghe Damsté Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research
Stefan Schouten
Stefan Schouten Utrecht University
J.S. Sinninghe Damsté
J.S. Sinninghe Damsté Utrecht University
W. Irene C. Rijpstra
W. Irene C. Rijpstra Utrecht University
Marcel T. J. van der Meer
Marcel T. J. van der Meer Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research
Stuart G. Wakeham
Stuart G. Wakeham Skidaway Institute of Oceanography
Johan W.H. Weijers
Johan W.H. Weijers Shell (Netherlands)
Richard D. Pancost
Richard D. Pancost University of Bristol
Ben Abbas
Ben Abbas Delft University of Technology
Josef P. Werne
Josef P. Werne University of Pittsburgh

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