Irene Wagner-Döbler is a German microbiologist and associate professor of biology at the Institute of Microbiology, Technical University of Braunschweig.
[1] Irene Wagner-Döbler studied biology at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität in Munich and obtained her PhD in 1984 with a thesis in aquatic ecology.
Her habilitation dealt with the detoxification of mercury-containing wastewater using a newly discovered Pseudomonas putida strain and a bioreactor specifically developed for this purpose.
[3] For this work she received the "Stifterverband Science Award - Erwin-Schrödinger Preis"[4] of the Helmholtz-Association of German Research Centers in 2001.
She is the author of more than 150 scientific papers,[7] with publications including de novo sequencing of the algal symbiont Dinoroseobacter shibae and its dinoflagellate host Prorocentrum cordatum.