Rene Boiteau

Rene Boiteau serves as Assistant Professor in the Department of Chemistry at the University of Minnesota, leading the Boiteau Lab focused on environmental chemistry and biogeochemical cycling. His primary academic appointment resides within the Chemistry Department, with active roles in the NSF REU program and US GEOTRACES international research initiative.

Research centers on critical environmental challenges through interdisciplinary approaches:

• Developing advanced mass spectrometry methods to probe molecular processes in elemental cycles
• Investigating trace metal transformations by microbes in oceans, rivers, and soils
• Building predictive models for environmental health impacts of industrialization and climate change
• Studying iron cycling's role in ocean productivity and carbon sequestration

The lab maintains active funding through NSF programs and international collaborations, recruiting undergraduate researchers via REU internships, graduate students through the Chemistry Department, and postdoctoral fellows pursuing external fellowships. Weekly group meetings foster interdisciplinary training in analytical chemistry, environmental science, and computational data analysis. Lab members utilize university core facilities including Mass Spectrometry, NMR, and X-Ray Crystallography laboratories while developing custom data processing pipelines for complex environmental datasets.