Thesis projects at the Bioprocess Engineering Group

Project Microalga as a sustainable oil crop for biofuels

Project Metabolic modeling and engineering of Nannochloropsis microalgae for improved lipid production

Project Phototrophic polypeptide production from urine

Project Characterization and improvement of thermo-tolerant microalgae from Bonaire

Project Modelling and optimization of microalgae growth and product formation in outdoor tubular photobioreactors

Project Scaling up mixotrophic cultivation of extremophilic microalgae

Project The microalgal chloroplast as a biological factory for the production of monoterpenoids

Project Modifying the general stress response to improve yeast cell factories

Project Hydrogen gas fermentation as the future protein source

Project Converting isoprenoid biosynthesis into an energy-generating process for sustainable production

Project A baculovirus expression system free of contaminating baculovirus particles (BACFREE)

Project Process development of recombinant AAV manufacturing using the Baculovirus Expression System

Project Single-step disentanglement and fractionation of microalgal high-value products through acoustophoresis

Project Enzymes for microalgal biorefineries

Project CO2 into sugars and functional food ingredients

Project SeaSolv: Multi-product biorefinery of seaweed using green solvents

Project Biorefinery on-a-chip

Project BIOS: a bio-intelligent DBTL approach for sustainable bio-manufacturing