Course board
Prof. Ulf Hanefeld
Ulf Hanefeld is a full professor in Biocatalysis at Delft University of Technology. He was born in Köln, Germany, and grew up in then (West) Berlin and London. In 1993 he received his PhD from the Georg-August-Universität zu Göttingen, having performed the research both in Göttingen (Prof. H. Laatsch) and Seattle (Prof. H. G. Floss). After postdoctoral years with Prof. C. W. Rees (Imperial College London), Prof. J. Staunton (Cambridge) and Prof. J. J. Heijnen and Dr. A. J. J. Straathof (TU Delft), he received a fellowship from the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW). He rose through the ranks at the Technische Universiteit Delft and his research in Delft focuses on enzymes and enzyme immobilisation for organic synthesis.
Faculty staff
Prof. Frank Hollmann
After his MSc in Chemistry at the University of Bonn (Germany), Frank Hollmann completed his PhD thesis at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH Zurich), Switzerland. After working as a postdoc at the Max-Planck-Institute for Coal Research (Germany) and as R&D manager at Evonik Industries (Germany ), he became an Assistant Professor at the Delft University of Technology in 2008. His main research interests are the application of oxidoreductases for organic synthesis and green chemistry using enzymes.
Dr. Adrie Straathof
Adrie Straathof is Associate Professor in the Bioprocess Engineering group of the Department of Biotechnology of the Delft University of Technology. Previously he was Assistant Professor and Ph.D. student in the Biokinetics and Organic Chemistry groups, respectively, at the same university. He was visiting professor at UNICAMP, Campinas (Brazil), and at ETH Zurich (Switzerland). He was programme leader of the Bulk Chemicals program in the B-BASIC (biobased sustainable industrial chemicals) consortium. His research interests are (a) enzymatic and microbial manufacturing of fine chemicals, bulk chemicals, and biofuels; (b) in-situ bioproduct recovery using crystallization, adsorption, extraction, membrane permeation; (c) model based and experimental bioprocess integration; and (d) kinetics and thermodynamics for biotechnological processes.
Dr. Caroline Paul
Caroline Emilie Paul received her Honours BSc and MSc in Biological Chemistry at the University of Toronto and her PhD in Bioorganic Chemistry at the University of Oviedo with Profs. V. Gotor-Fernández and I. Lavandera with research stays in Graz (Prof. W. Kroutil) and Delft (Prof. F. Hollmann). After postdoctoral work as a Marie Curie Fellow at TU Delft, she carried out her research interests on biomimetic cofactors for oxidoreductases with a NWO VENI grant at Wageningen University. Since 2018 she is an Assistant Professor in Biocatalysis at TU Delft.
Guest lecturers
Dr. Allesandra Basso
Purolite, Cardiff, United Kingdom
Dr. Bernhard Hauer
University Stuttgart, Dept. of Biological Engineering, Stuttgart, Germany
Prof. Dick Janssen
University of Groningen, Dept. of Biochemistry, Groningen, the Netherlands
Dr. René de Jong
DSM Food and Beverage, Delft, the Netherlands
Dr. Burghard König
Koenig & Funk Biotech Ltd., Berlin, Germany
Prof. Gerard Muyzer
Gerard Muyzer started his scientific career in molecular paleontology using antibodies to study the macromolecular remains in fossil shells and dinosaur bones. Inspired by the work of the American scientists Norman Pace and David Stahl, he changed his research interests from dinosaurs to microbes. Prof. Muyzer worked at the Max-Planck-Institute for Marine Microbiology, the Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research, and Delft University of Technology. Currently he is a full Professor in Microbial Systems Ecology at the University of Amsterdam. In 2012 he received a prestigious ERC Advanced Grant on a project entitled The Paradox of Sulfur Bacteria in Soda Lakes, in which he will try to obtain a comprehensive understanding of the diversity and ecophysiology of sulfur bacteria in soda lakes, their niche differentiation and the molecular mechanisms by which they adapt to the extreme halo-alkaline conditions.
Prof. Roger Sheldon
CLEA Technologies B.V., Delft, the Netherlands
Dr. Andreas Taglieber
Firmenich SA, Geneva, Switzerland
Dr. Oliver Thum
Evonik Goldschmidt GmbH, Essen, Germany
Prof. John Woodley
DTU Technical University Denmark, Lyngby, Denmark
Dr. Mirjam Kabel
Wageningen University & Research, the Netherlands
Dr. Martin Schürmann
InnoSyn BV, Geleen, the Netherlands
Dr. Sandy Schmidt
Department of Chemical and Pharmaceutical Biology, RU Groningen, the Netherlands
Coordinators workshop
Prof. Peter Leon Hagedoorn
Delft University of Technology, Delft, the Netherlands
