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 

Project: Economic and ecological evaluation of new processing schemes for the enzymatic treatment of non-recycled plastic fractions 

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

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

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

LEIBETSEDER Lukas

E-Mail: Lukas Leibetseder

Project: Cultured Metabolites – A plant cell culture approach for the scalable production of complex small molecules

Supervisor: Johannes Buyel, 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

MESURADO Tomas

E-Mail: Tomas Mesurado

Project: Purification, quantification and characterization of enveloped Bionanoparticles

Supervisor: Nico Lingg, Department of Biotechnology and Food Science

MOLIN Alexander Karl

E-Mail: Alexander Karl Molin

Project: Epigenomic and Transcriptomic Analysis of HEK cell lines used for AAV production

Supervisor: Nicole Borth, Department of Biotechnology and Food Science

SCHEICH David

E-Mail: David Scheich

Project: Purification of recombinant secretory immunoglobulin A and its biophysical and biochemical characterization

Supervisor: Rainer Hahn, Department of Biotechnology and Food Science

SIMON Florian

E-Mail: Florian Simon

Project: Process development of an integrated continuous two-stage chemostat manufacturing platform using growth-decoupled Escherichia coli

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

Project: Optimization of industrially applicable microbial 1,3-propanediol and 3-hydroxypropionic acid production

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

WINTER Martina 

E-Mail: Martina Winter 

Project: Online Monitoring in Downstream Processing of AAVs ​​​​​​

Supervisor: Astrid Dürauer, Department of Biotechnology and Food Science

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

GIBISCH Martin

Project within BioproEng: 
Adjusting membrane permeability for extracellular peptide production in growing Escherichia coli

Supervisor: Gerald Striedner, Department of Biotechnology and Food Science

GODON Helena

Project within BioproEng: 
Next Generation Pichia Toolbox Development: New high throughput screening strategies for the selection of the high producing P. pastoris clones

Supervisor: Diethard Mattanovich, Department of Biotechnology and Food Science

GUTMANN Stephan

Project within BioproEng: 
Targeted evolution for continuous production in Escherichia coli

Supervisor: Gerald Striedner, Department of Biotechnology and Food Science

HANAEE AHVAZ Hana

Project within BioproEng: 
Development of methods for in vivo quantification of proteolysis in E. coli expression systems

Supervisor: Gerald Striedner, Department of Biotechnology and Food Science

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

LACOMBE Claudia

Project within BioproEng: 
Process optimization for the biosynthesis of non-canonical amino acids 

Supervisor: Gerald Striedner, 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

MEMARI Golnaz 

Project within BioproEng: 
Alternative pathway design for the mixotrophic production of chemicals from CO2 in Pichia pastoris 

Supervisor: Diethard Mattanovich, 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

SEVERINSEN Manja Mølgaard 

E-Mail: Manja Mølgaard Severinsen

Project: CO2-negative bioproduction of value-added organic acids using engineered strains of the established Pichia pastoris yeast

Supervisor: Diethard Mattanovich, 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

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

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

ZOLLNER Alexander

Project within BioproEng: 
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