Rate My Professor Cecile Gubry-Rangin

Professor Cecile Gubry-Rangin holds a Personal Chair in the School of Biological Sciences at the University of Aberdeen. She earned her PhD in bacterial population genetics from the University of Montpellier between 2005 and 2008. Her career trajectory at the University of Aberdeen commenced as a postdoctoral researcher in microbial ecology within the group led by JI Prosser and GW Nicol from 2009 to 2012. This was followed by an early-career NERC Independent Fellowship in evolutionary microbial ecology from 2012 to 2015, and subsequently a Royal Society University Research Fellowship from 2016 to 2025. She currently serves as a member of the School of Biological Sciences Executive Group since 2020 and the School Research Committee since 2017. Gubry-Rangin is also an expert member of the French High Council for Evaluation of Research and Higher Education (HCERES) since 2017 and contributes to university strategic planning.

Her research centers on the ecological, physiological, and evolutionary adaptation of microbial populations, with a particular emphasis on ammonia-oxidizing archaea and bacteria central to the global biogeochemical cycling of nitrogen. Key areas include microbial community dynamics under environmental perturbations such as pH fluctuations, temperature changes, and land-use alterations, as well as the effects of agricultural practices like fertilizer application and nitrification inhibitors on ecosystem processes. She has attracted over £8 million in research funding through prestigious awards, including multiple Royal Society fellowships, enhancement grants, research grants, and talent grants, alongside her NERC fellowship and earlier scholarships from the French Research Ministry and European entities. Gubry-Rangin holds memberships in the Society for General Microbiology, Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution, International Society for Microbial Ecology, and the Nitrification Network. She serves on the editorial boards of Microbiome and Environmental Microbiome. Notable publications encompass 'Structurally diverse biological nitrification inhibitors display distinct modes of inhibition in ammonia-oxidizing bacteria' (2026, FEMS Microbiology Ecology), 'Genomic recovery from rare terrestrial microbes enabled by DNA-based GC-fractionation' (2025, ISME Communications), 'Land use effects on soil microbiome composition and traits with consequences for soil carbon cycling' (2024, ISME Communications), and 'Biological Nitrification Inhibitors with Antagonistic and Synergistic Effects on Growth of Ammonia Oxidiser and Soil Nitrification' (2024, Microbial Ecology). Her scholarship has amassed over 4,500 citations on Google Scholar.