DOCTORAL CANDIDATES

ACHLEITNER Lena 

Email: Lena Achleitner 

Project: Virus-like particle production in insect cells

Supervisor: Alois Jungbauer, Department of Biotechnology

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

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

GODON Helena

E-Mail: Helena Godon

Project: 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

GUTMANN Stephan

E-Mail: Stephan Gutmann 

Project: Targeted evolution for continuous production in Escherichia coli

Supervisor: Gerald Striedner, Department of Biotechnology

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

HOFER Larissa 

E-Mail: Larissa Hofer 

Project: Omics-Driven Optimisation of CQAs in Industrial CHO Fed-Batch Bioprocessing

Supervisor: Nicole Borth, Department of Biotechnology

JENJITWANICH Akarawit

E-Mail: Akarawit Jenjitwanich 

Project: Metabolism of Yarrowia lipolytica growing as a biofilm 

Supervisor: Michael Sauer, Department of Biotechnology

LACOMBE Claudia

Email: Claudia Lacombe

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

Supervisor: Gerald Striedner, Department of Biotechnology

MAYER Viktoria 

E-Mail: Viktoria Mayer

Project: Characterization of Bionanoparticles by biophysical methods 

Supervisor: Alois Jungbauer, Department of Biotechnology

MEDL Matthias 

E-Mail: Matthias Medl

Project: Novel machine learning methods in bioprocess engineering

Supervisor: Friedrich Leisch, Department of Landscape, Spatial and 
Infrastructure Sciences 

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

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

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

VAZULKA Sophie Anna

Email: Sopie Anna Vazulka

Project: Host cell response to antibody fragment production in E. coli with special focus on transcriptome and translatome

Supervisor: Gerald Striedner, Department of Biotechnology

WINTER Martina 

E-Mail: Martina Winter 

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

Supervisor: Astrid Dürauer, Department of Biotechnology

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

BECK Jürgen 

Project within BioproEng:
Impact of mass transfer mechanism on protein separation in two-component adsorption

Supervisor: Rainer Hahn, Department of Biotechnology

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

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

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

DOS SANTOS Mafalda Silva

Project within BioproEng:
Nanomembranes for in-situ removal of products from fermentation broth

Supervisor: Alois Jungbauer, Department of Biotechnology

DUTRA Gregory 

Email: Gregory Dutra

Project: Continuous separation of recombinant antibodies by non‑chromatography methods

Supervisor: Alois Jungbauer, Department of Biotechnology

ERIAN Anna 

Project within BioproEng:
Unravelling the glycerol metabolism of Yarrowia lipolytica 

Supervisor: Michael Sauer, Department of Biotechnology

HOHENEDER Robin

Project within BioproEng:
Microbial Upgrading of a carbon-rich by-product in cellulose fiber production.

Supervisor: Michael Sauer, Department of Biotechnology

KOMUCZKI Daniel Paul

Project within BioproEng:
Fully integrated continuous bioprocessing of recombinant proteins using mammalian cells

Supervisor: Alois Jungbauer, Department of Biotechnology

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

KRIPPL Maximilian

Project within BioproEng:
Hybrid modeling of cross flow filtration for biopharmaceutical production

Supervisor: Astrid Dürauer, Department of Biotechnology

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

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

MONTES SERRANO Ignacio 

Project within BioproEng:
Power input in miniaturized systems for continuous operation 

Supervisor: Astrid Dürauer, Department of Biotechnology

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 
 

RECANATI Gabriele 

Project within BioproEng:
Downstream development for an integrated continuous manufacturing process for monoclonal antibodies 

Supervisor: Alois Jungbauer, Department of Biotechnology

ŠTOR Jerneja 

E-Mail: Jerneja Štor  

Project: Investigation and metabolic modelling of glycosylation in chinese hamster ovary (cho) cells 

Supervisor: Nicole Borth, Department of Biotechnology
 

TOTARO Damiano

Project within BioproEng:
Microfluidic platform for downscaling fermentation and for screening engineered strains

Supervisor: Diethard Mattanovich, Department of Biotechnology