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2026

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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Earth Science in Netherlands Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Earth Science in Netherlands Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Earth Science in Netherlands Leader Award
  • 2014 - Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • 2012 - C.C. Patterson Award, Geochemical Society

Overview

Stefan Schouten is affiliated with Utrecht University in the Netherlands. Their research spans multiple areas within Environmental Science and Earth and Planetary Sciences with an emphasis on Ecology, Atmospheric Science, Environmental Chemistry, Oceanography, and Molecular Biology.

Their work encompasses various main topics, including:

  • Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
  • Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena
  • Isotope Analysis in Ecology
  • Marine and coastal ecosystems
  • Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology
  • Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies
  • Hydrocarbon exploration and reservoir analysis

Stefan Schouten has published frequently in venues such as:

  • Publishing Network for Geoscientific and Environmental Data (PANGAEA) (Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research)
  • Organic Geochemistry
  • Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology
  • 30th International Meeting on Organic Geochemistry (IMOG 2021)
  • Climate of the past

They have collaborated extensively with several researchers, most often with:

  • Jaap S. Sinninghe Damsté
  • Ellen C. Hopmans
  • Marcel T. J. van der Meer
  • Nicole J. Bale
  • Laura Villanueva

Among recent publications attributed to Stefan Schouten are:

  • Lipidomics of Environmental Microbial Communities. I: Visualization of Component Distributions Using Untargeted Analysis of High-Resolution Mass Spectrometry Data (2021, Frontiers in Microbiology)
  • Late Paleocene-early Eocene Arctic Ocean sea surface temperatures: reassessing biomarker paleothermometry at Lomonosov Ridge (2020, Climate of the past)
  • 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)
  • Spindle-shaped archaeal viruses evolved from rod-shaped ancestors to package a larger genome (2022, Cell)
  • Global temperature calibration of the Long chain Diol Index in marine surface sediments (2020, Organic Geochemistry)

Stefan Schouten has been recognized with awards including membership in the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2014 and the C.C. Patterson Award from the Geochemical Society in 2012.

Best Publications

  • A microbial consortium couples anaerobic methane oxidation to denitrification

    Ashna A. Raghoebarsing;Arjan Pol;Katinka T. van de Pas-Schoonen;Alfons J. P. Smolders

  • 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

  • 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

  • Archaeal nitrification in the ocean

    Cornelia Wuchter;Ben Abbas;Marco J. L. Coolen;Lydie Herfort

  • Evidence for gammacerane as an indicator of water column stratification

    J.S. Sinninghe Damsté;F. Kenig;M.P. Koopmans;J. Koster

  • 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

  • Subtropical Arctic Ocean temperatures during the Palaeocene/Eocene thermal maximum

    Appy Sluijs;Stefan Schouten;Mark Pagani;Martijn Woltering

  • Occurrence and distribution of tetraether membrane lipids in soils : Implications for the use of the TEX86 proxy and the BIT index

    Johan W.H. Weijers;Stefan Schouten;Otto C. Spaargaren;Jaap S. Sinninghe Damsté

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • Environmental, genomic and taxonomic perspectives on methanotrophic Verrucomicrobia.

    Huub J. M. Op den Camp;Tajul Islam;Matthew B. Stott;Harry R. Harhangi

  • Cretaceous sea-surface temperature evolution: Constraints from TEX86 and planktonic foraminiferal oxygen isotopes

    Charlotte L. O'Brien;Stuart A. Robinson;Richard D. Pancost;Jaap S. Sinninghe Damsté

  • Arctic hydrology during global warming at the Palaeocene/Eocene thermal maximum

    Mark Pagani;Nikolai Pedentchouk;Matthew Huber;Appy Sluijs

  • Climatic controls on central African hydrology during the past 20,000 years

    Enno Schefuss;Stefan Schouten;Ralph R Schneider

  • 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

  • Trophic upgrading of food quality by protozoans enhancing copepod growth: role of essential lipids

    W. C. M. Klein Breteler;N. Schogt;M. Baas;S. Schouten

Frequent Co-Authors

Jaap S. Sinninghe Damsté
Jaap S. Sinninghe Damsté Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research
Ellen C. Hopmans
Ellen C. Hopmans Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research
Marcel T. J. van der Meer
Marcel T. J. van der Meer Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research
Appy Sluijs
Appy Sluijs Utrecht University
Henk Brinkhuis
Henk Brinkhuis Utrecht University
Gert-Jan Reichart
Gert-Jan Reichart Utrecht University
W. Irene C. Rijpstra
W. Irene C. Rijpstra Utrecht University
Enno Schefuß
Enno Schefuß University of Bremen
Francesca Sangiorgi
Francesca Sangiorgi Utrecht University
Mike S. M. Jetten
Mike S. M. Jetten Radboud University

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