Prof. Jozef Nissimov

Jozef I. Nissimov is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Biology at the University of Waterloo in Canada. He received his B.Sc. in Marine Biology (honours) and M.Res. in Marine Biology from the University of Plymouth in 2008 and 2009, respectively, earned his Ph.D. in Biosciences from Plymouth Marine Laboratory & University of Nottingham in 2013, and was a Postdoctoral Fellow at Rutgers University in 2018. He was awarded the 2022 Exceptional Service as an ECR Director award by the Canadian Society for Virology and the 2021 Norma J. Lang Early Career Research Fellowship by the Phycological Society of America. He is also a member of the Phycological Society of America, The International Society for Viruses of Microorganisms (ISVM), the Canadian Society for Virology, and Phage Canada. His research lab (the Environmental Virology and Ecology Research Group) focuses on studying the biotic and abiotic factors that affect the dynamic interactions between ecologically important algal and cyanobacterial hosts and their viruses, and their co-evolutionary relationships, in order to elucidate the impact of these dynamics and relationships on natural habitats such as lakes and the ocean.