Rudolf Amann

Rudolf Amann (born June 3, 1961) is a German professor and head of the department of molecular ecology at the Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology, and a professor of Biology at University of Bremen.

With Nina Springer and Wolfgang Ludwig he characterized the bacterium Parachlamydia acanthamoebae in 1997. Amann shared the 1995 Körber European Science Prize with six others, for Genetic Probes in Environmental Research and Medicine, and the 2004 Bergey Award for his work on the diversity of micro-organisms in marine habitats.

As of 2011, he had an h-index of 78 and 19,173 citations to his 240 articles. He was an ISI Highly Cited Researcher 2001 and 2014. He is the Executive Editor of the journal Systematic and Applied Microbiology.