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On December 13, 2024, 25 new members were added to the German Academy of Science and Engineering (acatech) - including Prof. Kathrin Castiglione! acatech now consists of 682 members who put their exceptional scientific excellence at the service of independent, public-interest-oriented consulting for...

We are pleased that our institute is represented with two contributions at this year's 14th European Congress of Chemical Engineering / 7th European Congress of Applied Biotechnology in Berlin: Stefanie Fritzsche, presentation on the topic: "Towards a circular plastics economy – biocatalytic degr...

The Institute of Bioprocess Engineering congratulates Dr.-Ing. Michael Mertz on successfully obtaining his doctorate!

We congratulate Dr. Maximilian Schäfer for winning the Best Paper Award at the 9th ACM International Conference on Nanoscale Computing and Communication (ACM NanoCom2022), Barcelona, Catalunya, Spain. We are very pleased about the positive response to our joint work on the topic of "Controlled...

On Thursday, October 6, we met for a hike to the Glatzenstein in the Franconian Alb. Even though it was still drizzling slightly at the beginning of the hike, the weather turned into a golden autumn day from noon on. A salamander was very unimpressed by the many feet that crossed his path. Especiall...

The Institute of Bioprocess Engineering congratulates Dr.-Ing. Florian Golombek on successfully obtaining his doctorate!

In the current FAU newsletter there is a report on the home brewing, which was offered by the BVT institute in this semester as part of the online practical course on microbial process engineering: Zuhause Bier brauen fürs Studium (Article in German) Many thanks to Stefanie Fritzsche from the ...

For the second time, the student council initiative Chemical and Bioengineering awards the "Audience Award for Excellent Teaching", this semester to Professor Kathrin Castiglione from the Institute of Bioprocess Engineering (BVT). The students of the Department CBI nominated her course "Bioreaction ...

In the current issue of "Nachrichten aus der Chemie" there is a conference report on the past CeBiTec symposium, in which our PhD student Michael Mertz also participated in December 2019. The symposium was entitled: "13th International CeBiTec Symposium: Multi-Step Syntheses in Biology & Che...

This year, Prof. Dr. Castiglione presented her research in one of the two keynote lectures at the FAU Dies Academicus. Her topic was "Modern Bioprocess Engineering: Molecular Tools for Innovative Processes". The lecture can be found on the page https://www.dies.fau.de/speakers/prof-dr-kathrin-castig...