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