DOCTORAL CANDIDATES

ARASTEH KANI Arshia
E-Mail: Arshia Arasteh Kani
Project: MISTER - Metabolic lncorporation of latent fast reacting thioeSTERs
Supervisor: Gerald Striedner, Department of Biotechnology and Food Science

DE SANTIS Tommaso
E-Mail: Tommaso De Santis
Supervisor: Gerald Striedner, Department of Biotechnology and Food Science

DIERINGER Felix
Email: Felix Dieringer
Project: Scenarios for Improvement of Green Metrics for Biologics
Supervisor: Alois Jungbauer, Department of Biotechnology and Food Science

FARGE Xavier
E-Mail: Xavier Farge
Project: Function, Control and Engineering of Microbial Methylotrophy, FUNCEMM
Supervisor: Diethard Mattanovich, Department of Biotechnology and Food Science

FOHLER Lisa
E-Mail: Lisa Fohler
Project: Fed-batch and continuous production of PET degrading enzymes in E.coli
Supervisor: Gerald Striedner, Department of Biotechnology and Food Science

FRANK Anna
E-Mail: Anna Frank
Project: Next generation flocculants for intensified monoclonal antibody production
Supervisor: Rainer Hahn, Department of Biotechnology and Food Science

GIBISCH Martin
E-Mail: Martin Gibisch
Project: Adjusting membrane permeability for extracellular peptide production in growing Escherichia coli
Supervisor: Gerald Striedner, Department of Biotechnology and Food Science

GODON Helena
E-Mail: Helena Godon
Supervisor: Diethard Mattanovich, Department of Biotechnology and Food Science

GOLDIN Clara
E-Mail: Clara Goldin
Project: Production of acetic acid from methanol and CO2: a fermentation approach
Supervisor: Diethard Mattanovich, Department of Biotechnology and Food Science

GUTMANN Stephan
E-Mail: Stephan Gutmann
Project: Targeted evolution for continuous production in Escherichia coli
Supervisor: Gerald Striedner, Department of Biotechnology and Food Science

HANAEE AHVAZ Hana
E-Mail: Hana Hanaee Ahvaz
Project: Development of methods for in vivo quantification of proteolysis in E. coli expression systems
Supervisor: Gerald Striedner, Department of Biotechnology and Food Science
HOFER Larissa
E-Mail: Larissa Hofer
Project: Omics-Driven Optimisation of CQAs in Industrial CHO Fed-Batch Bioprocessing
Supervisor: Nicole Borth, Department of Biotechnology and Food Science

JENJITWANICH Akarawit
E-Mail: Akarawit Jenjitwanich
Project: Metabolism of Yarrowia lipolytica growing as a biofilm
Supervisor: Michael Sauer

LACOMBE Claudia
Email: Claudia Lacombe
Project: Process optimization for the biosynthesis of non-canonical amino acids
Supervisor: Gerald Striedner, Department of Biotechnology and Food Science

LEIGHEB Sabrina
E-Mail: Sabrina Leigheb
Project: Advance Analytics of recombinant AAVs for gene therapy vectors
Supervisor: Astrid Dürauer, Department of Biotechnology and Food Science

MARIN Zana
E-Mail: Zana Marin
Project: Synthetic proteins in Pichia pastoris
Supervisor: Gerald Striedner, Department of Biotechnology and Food Science

MEDL Matthias
E-Mail: Matthias Medl
Project: Novel machine learning methods in bioprocess engineering
Supervisor: Johannes Buyel, Department of Biotechnology and Food Science

MEMARI Golnaz
E-Mail: Golnaz Memari
Project: Alternative pathway design for the mixotrophic production of chemicals from CO2 in Pichia pastoris
Supervisor: Diethard Mattanovich, Department of Biotechnology and Food Science

SCHEICH David
E-Mail: David Scheich
Supervisor: Rainer Hahn, Department of Biotechnology and Food Science

SEVERINSEN Manja Mølgaard
E-Mail: Manja Mølgaard Severinsen
Supervisor: Diethard Mattanovich, Department of Biotechnology and Food Science

SIMON Florian
E-Mail: Florian Simon
Supervisor: Gerald Striedner, Department of Biotechnology and Food Science

SMESNIK Georg
E-Mail: Georg Smesnik
Project: Characterization of HEK293 cell lines for rAAV production
Supervisor: Nicole Borth, Astrid Dürauer, Department of Biotechnology and Food Science

TOMICO CUENCA Irene
E-Mail: Irene Tomico Cuenca
Supervisor: Diethard Mattanovich, Department of Biotechnology and Food Science

TOTH Maria
E-Mail: Maria Toth
Project: Cell engineering for AAV production
Supervisor: Astrid Dürauer, Department of Biotechnology and Food Science

VÀSQUEZ CASTRO Evelyn Carolina
E-Mail: Evelyn Carolina Vásquez Castro
Project: Increasing the carbon efficiency of citric acid production
Supervisor: Diethard Mattanovich, Department of Biotechnology and Food Science
WINTER Martina
E-Mail: Martina Winter
Project: Online Monitoring in Downstream Processing of AAVs
Supervisor: Astrid Dürauer, Department of Biotechnology and Food Science

ZOLLNER Alexander
Email: Alexander Zollner
Project: Functionalised non-woven nanofibers for the purification of Virus-like particles (VLPs) in Biotechnological Downstream Processing
Supervisor: Alois Jungbauer, Department of Biotechnology and Food Science
ALUMNI

ACHLEITNER Lena
Project within BioproEng:
Virus-like particle production in insect cells
Supervisor: Alois Jungbauer, Department of Biotechnology and Food Science

BECK Jürgen
Project within BioproEng:
Impact of mass transfer mechanism on protein separation in two-component adsorption
Supervisor: Rainer Hahn, Department of Biotechnology and Food Science

BERG Markus
Project within BioproEng:
Model based process development and scale up of primary recovery for biopharmaceutical production
Supervisor: Rainer Hahn, Astrid Dürauer, Department of Biotechnology

CATALDO Alessandro Luigi
Project within BioproEng: Economic and ecological assessment of clean water for biopharmaceuticals
Supervisor: Alois Jungbauer, Department of Biotechnology and Food Science

CHRISTLER Anna
Project within BioproEng:
Semi-automation of bioanalyses for real-time monitoring of quantity, purity and activity of biopharmaceuticals
Supervisor: Alois Jungbauer, Department of Biotechnology and Food Science

DANIELEWICZ Natalia
Project within BioproEng:
Process development for high yield fermentation of active recombinant lectins expressed in Escherichia coli
Supervisor: Gerald Striedner, Department of Biotechnology and Food Science

DOS SANTOS Mafalda Silva
Project within BioproEng:
Nanomembranes for in-situ removal of products from fermentation broth
Supervisor: Alois Jungbauer, Department of Biotechnology and Food Science

ERIAN Anna
Project within BioproEng:
Unravelling the glycerol metabolism of Yarrowia lipolytica
Supervisor: Michael Sauer

HOHENEDER Robin
Project within BioproEng:
Microbial Upgrading of a carbon-rich by-product in cellulose fiber production.
Supervisor: Michael Sauer

JURJEVEC Alexander
Project within BioproEng:
Recombinant protein extraction with Polymers
Supervisor: Rainer Hahn, Department of Biotechnology and Food Science

KOMUCZKI Daniel Paul
Project within BioproEng:
Fully integrated continuous bioprocessing of recombinant proteins using mammalian cells
Supervisor: Alois Jungbauer, Department of Biotechnology and Food Science

KÖPPL Christoph
Project within BioproEng:
Development of high titre soluble expression systems for recombinant protein expression in Escherichia coli via the application of solubility tags and the utilisation of phage derived 5’ UTR expression enhancers
Supervisor: Gerald Striedner, Department of Biotechnology and Food Science

KRIPPL Maximilian
Project within BioproEng:
Hybrid modeling of cross flow filtration for biopharmaceutical production
Supervisor: Astrid Dürauer, Department of Biotechnology and Food Science

LALI Narges
Project within BioproEng:
Residence time distribution (RTD): effect on start-up and shut-down for product collection
Supervisor: Alois Jungbauer, Department of Biotechnology and Food Science

MAYER Florian
Project within BioproEng:
Influence of fermentation strategies and scale effects on Fab fragment production in Escherichia coli
Supervisor: Gerald Striedner, Department of Biotechnology and Food Science

MAYER Viktoria
Project within BioproEng:
Characterization of Bionanoparticles by biophysical methods
Supervisor: Alois Jungbauer, Department of Biotechnology and Food Science

MONTES SERRANO Ignacio
Project within BioproEng:
Power input in miniaturized systems for continuous operation
Supervisor: Astrid Dürauer, Department of Biotechnology and Food Science

PAPPENREITER Magdalena
Project within BioproEng: Development of control concepts and integrated solutions in a fully continuous and automated End-to-End manufacturing process platform of biopharmaceuticals focused on the upstream part
Supervisor: Alois Jungbauer, Department of Biotechnology and Food Science

RECANATI Gabriele
Project within BioproEng:
Downstream development for an integrated continuous manufacturing process for monoclonal antibodies
Supervisor: Alois Jungbauer, Department of Biotechnology and Food Science

ŠTOR Jerneja
Project within BioproEng:
Investigation and metabolic modelling of glycosylation in chinese hamster ovary (cho) cells
Supervisor: Nicole Borth, Department of Biotechnology and Food Science

TOTARO Damiano
Project within BioproEng:
Microfluidic platform for downscaling fermentation and for screening engineered strains
Supervisor: Diethard Mattanovich, Department of Biotechnology and Food Science

VAZULKA Sophie Anna
Project within BioproEng:
Host cell response to antibody fragment production in E. coli with special focus on transcriptome and translatome
Supervisor: Gerald Striedner, Department of Biotechnology and Food Science