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In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):
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SDG 15 Life on Land
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Publication network from the last five years
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Towards stable chemical fossils for anaerobic ammonium-oxidizing bacteria in palaeoenvironmental studies: novel cyclic aliphatic hydrocarbons as potential dia- and catagenetic products of ladderane lipids
Rush, D., van Maarseveen, J. H., Geenevasen, J. A. J., Tegelaar, E., Pureveen, J., Nijenhuis, R. K., Westerveld, N., Islam, M. M., van Duin, A. C. T., Schouten, S. & Sinninghe Damsté, J. S., 15 Mar 2026, In: Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta. 417, p. 52-70 19 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Academic › peer-review
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A chemotaxonomic and phylogenomic re-evaluation of the genus Alicyclobacillus: A proposal for reclassification of about half of the species into the new genus, Paenalicyclobacillus gen. nov., with an emended description of the genus Alicyclobacillus, and recognition that the names Alicyclobacillus tengchongensis and Alicyclobacillus montanus are later heterotypic synonyms of Alicyclobacillus tolerans
Sinninghe Damsté, J. S., Villanueva, L. & Pukall, R., Nov 2025, In: Systematic and Applied Microbiology. 48, 6Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Academic › peer-review
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A Comprehensive Study of Biohopanoid Production in Alphaproteobacteria: Biosynthetic, Chemotaxonomical, and Geobiological Implications
Sinninghe Damsté, J. S., Koenen, M., Thiel, V., Richter, N., Hopmans, E. C. & Bale, N. J., Nov 2025, In: Geobiology. 23, 6, e70038.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Academic › peer-review
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Emergence and evolution of heterocyte glycolipid biosynthesis enabled specialized nitrogen fixation in cyanobacteria
Gallego, R. P., von Meijenfeldt, F. A. B., Bale, N. J., Sinninghe Damsté, J. S. & Villanueva, L., 4 Feb 2025, In: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 122, 5, 11 p., e2413972122.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Academic › peer-review
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Impact of terrestrial organic matter input on distributions of hydroxylated isoprenoidal GDGTs in marine sediments: Implications for OH-isoGDGT-based temperature proxies
Varma, D., Yedema, Y. W., Peterse, F., Reichart, G. J., Sinninghe Damsté, J. S. & Schouten, S., Aug 2025, In: Organic Geochemistry. 206, 105010.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Academic › peer-review
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Activities
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Parallel Trends in Middle Eocene Temperatures and Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide Concentration?
Sinninghe Damste, J. (Invited speaker)
14 Jun 2010Activity: Talk or presentation › Invited talk › Popular
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The Middle Eocene Climatic Optimum and pCO2: warming the doubthouse.
Sinninghe Damste, J. (Invited speaker)
7 Jul 2010Activity: Talk or presentation › Invited talk › Academic
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Parallel Trends in Middle Eocene Temperatures and Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide Concentration?
Sinninghe Damste, J. (Invited speaker)
3 Dec 2010Activity: Talk or presentation › Invited talk › Popular
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Paleogene Temperature Evolution of the Southwest Pacific Ocean: Warming and Cooling the Greenhouse.
Sinninghe Damste, J. (Invited speaker)
3 May 2010Activity: Talk or presentation › Invited talk › Popular
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Drilling the central Arctic: from a Palaeogene ‘pond’ to a Neogene ocean.
Sinninghe Damste, J. (Invited speaker)
15 Sept 2009Activity: Talk or presentation › Invited talk › Academic
In the media
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Is het tijd geworden voor een Nexit?
19/11/25
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Public Engagement Activities
Prizes & Grants
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2004 ISI Highly Cited Researcher in Geosciences
Sinninghe Damste, J. (Recipient), 2004
Prize: Other distinction
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best poster award, Netherlands Earth Sciences Conferences 2008 (NAC9)
Sinninghe Damste, J. (Recipient), 2008
Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)
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Dr. A.H. Heineken prize for Environmental Sciences
Sinninghe Damste, J. (Recipient), 2014
Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)
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Elected member of of Academia Europaea
Sinninghe Damste, J. (Recipient), 2020
Prize: Election to learned society
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Elected member of the Koninklijke Hollandsche Maatschappij der Wetenschappen (KNHRM)
Sinninghe Damste, J. (Recipient), 2016
Prize: Election to learned society