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Prof. Henk Noorman
Henk Noorman was trained as Chemical Engineer from Groningen University (NL). He obtained a PhD in Bioprocess Technology from Delft University of Technology (NL, 1991), on microbal systems modeling. He became a post-doc fellow in a Nordic research consortium, and co-ordinated a fermentation scale-up project among academic groups in Sweden, Denmark and Norway. He then joined Gist-brocades and DSM in Delft (NL) and worked on fermentation development and implementation projects, mainly in the area of antibiotics and bio-based products. He also has been project manager for innovation projects, and received the DSM R&D Award 2010. Henk Noorman is currently working as Senior Science Fellow Bioprocess Technology in the DSM Biotechnology Center and involved in numerous projects in Industrial Biotechnology, Food Specialties, Anti-Infectives, and the Corporate Research Program. In addition he is honorary professor at Technical University Delft working on Bioprocess Design and Integration.
Teaching activities include courses in Delft, Wageningen (NL), Brac (Croatia) and Shanghai (China).
Cristian Picioreanu
Enviromental Science and Engineering,
King Abdullah University of Science and Engeering,
Thuwal, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
Adrie Straathof
Bioprocess Engineering, Delft University of Technology,
Delft, the Netherlands
Cees Haringa
Bioprocess Engineering, Delft University of Technology
Delft, the Netherlands
Guest lecturers
Frank Delvigne
Gembloux Agro-Bio Tech, University of Liège,
Luik, Belgium
Sef Heijnen
After his MSc studies in Chemical Engineering, Sef Heijnen worked at DSM (then: Gist Brocades) for 15 years and in this period he also completed his PhD thesis in bioprocess technology at Delft University of Technology. In 1988, he became full professor and group leader in Cell Systems Engineering within the Department of Biotechnology of Delft University of Technology. He has an impressive track record: he is (co-) author of over 400 scientific publications, has supervised nearly 60 PhD students and is a member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW). He is recipient of several science and education awards. His research interests are (1) metabolic engineering and systems biology applied to industrial microbial processes using Saccharomyces cerevisiae, Penicillium chrysogenum and Escherichia coli, (2) metabolome measurement and 13C-tracer analysis in steady state and dynamic conditions, and (3) thermodynamic and kinetic modelling of metabolism, fermentation design and scale-up and scale down of industrial processes.
Prof. Heijnen teaches a wide variety of courses, and was elected at TU Delft’s 2003 ‘Leermeester’ (best lecturer).
Wenjun Tang
DSM BioTechnology Center Delft, the Netherlands
Mathematical Institute (MI), Leiden University, Leiden, the Netherlands
Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI),
Amsterdam, the Netherlands
Matthias Reuss
Stuttgart Center Sytems Biology, Stuttgart, Germany
Ralf Takors
Institut für Bioverfahrenstechnik, University of Stuttgart,
Germany
Peter J.T. Verheijen
Department of Biotechnology, Delft University of Technology,
Delft, The Netherlands
Emrah Nikerel
Systems Biology and Bioinformatics Lab, Department of Genetics and Bioengineering, Yeditepe University,
Istanbul, Turkey
Matthias Heinemann
Molecular Systems Biology, University of Groningen, the Netherlands