Ernest Chi Fru

EAG Councillor

Ernest is a geomicrobiologist/biogeochemist interested in the biogeochemical evolution of the geobiosphere through Earth history. He was born in anglophone Cameroon, West Africa and later moved to Sweden where he earned a PhD in Geomicrobiology at Gothenburg University in 2006. Subsequent postdoctoral stints took Ernest to the University of East Anglia, Newcastle University and University of Windsor, Canada. In 2011, Ernest took up an Intra-European Marie Curie Fellowship position at the Swedish Museum of Natural History, Stockholm, from where he relocated to Stockholm University with an  ERC starting grant in 2013. Since 2016, Ernest is a senior lecturer in geomicrobiology/biogeochemistry in the School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Cardiff University.