Anne-Kirstine Corfitz Petersen

Anne-Kirstine Corfitz Petersen serves as a Staff Scientist at Aalborg University's Center for Microbial Communities within the Department of Environmental Biotechnology. Her research focuses on microbial dynamics in anaerobic digesters at wastewater treatment plants, emphasizing community composition stability and operational factors.

Education:

• MSc in Biotechnology (awarded June 29, 2018)
• PhD in Environmental Biotechnology (completed 2025)

Research Focus: Petersen investigates anaerobic digestion systems through time series analysis and high-dimensional sampling, examining how start-up procedures and microbial immigration impact digester stability. Her work bridges environmental engineering and microbial ecology to optimize wastewater treatment efficiency.

Publication Trends: Recent outputs (2022-2025) reveal strong emphasis on global microbial diversity mapping through the MiDAS database project, integrating amplicon sequencing with longitudinal studies to decode community dynamics in anaerobic systems.

Projects & Collaboration: An active contributor to the international MiDAS initiative (since 2006) and MiDAS Sweden (since 2020), she presented findings at NORDIWA 2021. Her work involves cross-institutional teams analyzing biogas production systems across Europe.