Maria Barbosa
Professor Bioprocess Engineering
Wageningen University and Research
Wageningen, Netherlands
We work on strain development, process design, biorefinery, and scale-up of microalgae and seaweed biorefinery. From lab to pilot scale @ AlgaePARC.
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About me
Prof. dr Maria Barbosa is Professor in Bioprocess Engineering and is Director of AlgaePARC (www.AlgaePARC.com) at Wageningen University and Research Centre, the Netherlands. She has served as president of the Dutch Biotechnology Association (NBV) and is a member of the steering group of the European Algae Biomass Association (EABA). She holds a Ph.D. in Bioprocess Engineering obtained at Wageningen University. She has worked at ETH (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology), Switzerland, IBET, and at EMBO (European Molecular Biology Organisation), Germany.
She currently leads the group in microalgal biotechnology and coordinates several large research programs that cover the entire microalgae production chain.
Her scientific interests are in microalgae strain improvement, process design, and scale-up.