Ken Nealson is the Shaw Distinguished Professor of Biological Sciences at the University of Wisconsin, with appointments at the Center for Great Lakes Studies, the Department of Microbiology in Madison, and the Department of Biology in Milwaukee. After receiving his Ph.D. in microbiology (1969) from the University of Chicago, he did post-doctoral work at Harvard University and was Professor of Oceanography at Scripps Institution of Oceanography (University of California, San Diego) before coming to Wisconsin. His area of research is environmental microbiology and biogeochemistry, with a focus on the interactions between microbes and metals, specifically manganese and iron. Dr. Nealson was chairman of the NAS Task Group that produced the 1992 report on Biological Contamination of Mars, is currently chairman of the NAS Task Group on Issues in Sample Return, and has served on several NASA and NSF review panels. He received a Guggenheim Fellowship for sabbatical research in biogeochemistry, is a Fellow of the American Academy of Microbiology, and was a recent recipient of an award by the Navy as a Distinguished Visiting Researcher at the Naval Research Laboratory at the Stennis Space Center.

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