Research Division: Biochemical Engineering
Head: Univ.Prof. Dipl.-Ing. Dr.techn. Christoph Herwig
RESEARCH GOALS
Our Vision:
We want to build bridges between the “omics” sciences, process development and scale up for industrially relevant processes for biopharmaceuticals, secondary metabolites and sustainable technologies. Be the world-leading research group in efficient and scalable bioprocess development for safe, economic and ecologic bioproducts through interdisciplinary thinking!
Our Mission:
Method development for efficient and scientifically based bioprocess development
Cornerstones of Activities:
- Science based methods for quantitative bioprocess development
- From data to knowledge, scalable
- From biorefinery to biopharmaceuticals
- From process understanding to engineered strains and products
- From understanding single unit operations to integrated processes
Our Tools:
- Quality by Design principles – Why processing
- Dynamics
- Real time sensors, soft sensors, simulation and automation
- Data exploitation, using first principles
- Mechanistic modelling
