Gemma Reguera is a Spanish-American microbiologist and professor at Michigan State University.
She is the recipient of the 2022 Alice C. Evans Award for Advancement of Women from the American Society for Microbiology.
From 2001-2002, she worked on the role of the toxin-coregulated pilus in the ecological fitness of Vibrio cholerae[3] as a Spanish Ministry of Science postdoctoral fellow with Roberto Kolter at Harvard Medical School.
From 2002-2006, she worked as a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst in the group of Derek Lovley and authored the 2005 Nature publication "Extracellular electron transfer via microbial nanowires", the first report of conductive pili in Geobacter.
[4] Reguera is a leader in the emerging field of electromicrobiology and potential applications of electroactive microbial biofilms in bioenergy and bioremediation.