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Sort by Filter by letter a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z First name Last name Remove filter Division All BIO Operations Support Chemical Biology Food and Nutrition Science Industrial Biotechnology Infrastructures Systems Biology Mehdi Abdollahi Researcher Mehdi is a researcher at the division of Food and Nutrition Science with major interests within chemistry, functionality and product-forming capacity of marine proteins, at both micro- and... Rasmus Ågren Researcher Rasmus is a researcher in Chalmers Systems Biology infrastructure. Eva Albers Senior Researcher, Biology and Biological Engineering, Industrial Biotechnology & Director of Studies, Chalmers Operational Support, Student and Education Office Eva Albers is Senior Researcher at Industrial biotechnology and Director of Studies for the Bachelor and Master programs in Biotechnology and master programs in Chemical Engineering and... Mohammadreza Alizadehheidari PhD student Mohammadreza Alizadehheidari is a PhD student in Fredrik Westerlund’s group at the Division of Chemical Biology since September 2012. He is focusing his research on utilization of nanofluidics with... Marie Alminger Professor, Biology and Biological Engineering, Food and Nutrition Science Marie Almingers research is focused on bioactive compounds in foods and involve characterization of plant raw materials, and studies of relationships between different processing techniques, food... Charlotte Altin Head of Administration & Department Financial Officer Thomas Andlid Associate professor, Biology and Biological Engineering, Food and Nutrition Science Professor Thomas Andlid leads the group of Food Microbiology/Biotechnology. He focuses on yeasts, bifidobacteria and lactic acid bacteria as production organisms. These are used in (i) fermentation... Petre Mihail Anton Senior Research Engineer Angelica Ardehed Research engineer Marina Armeni Research Engineer ROJA BABAZADEH Researcher Gunilla Bankel Administrator, Biology and Biological Engineering Gunilla works as Administrator for Industrial Biotechnology and TreeSearch Gabriel Barbosa PhD student Gabriel Barbosa de Oliveira is a PhD student at the division of Food and Nutrition Science. His research is focused on evaluation of stability and biological activity of anthocyanins from berry... Malin Barman Researcher Malin Barman is a specialist researcher within molecular epidemiology at the division of Food and Nutrition Science. Her research is mainly focused on finding associations between exposure to... David Bergenholm PhD student Alexandra Linda Bergman PhD student David Bernson Postdoc; Biology and Biological Engineering, Chemical Biology David Bernson is a Post-doc at the division of Chemical Biology. His primary research focus is on the misfolding and aggregation of proteins into amyloid fibrils, and their involvement in... Maurizio Bettiga Visiting researcher, Biology and Biological Engineering, Industrial Biotechnology Dr. Maurizio Bettiga joined the staff of Industrial Biotechnology at Chalmers in October 2010 as Assistant Professor. As part of Chalmers Energy Initiative, his research is focused on the study and... Izabela Biskup Postdoc Izabela is post-doc at the unit of Food Science and Nutrition. Her focus is research on the impact of cereal based foods on metabolism and cardiometabolic related disease risk factors in... Johan Björkeroth PhD student Stephanie Blockhuys Post-Doctoral Researcher Dr. Stéphanie Blockhuys investigates the role of copper and copper-binding proteins in cancer progression. Cyrielle Bonzom PhD student Cyrielle Bonzom is a PhD student in the Industrial Biotechnology division since September 2013. Her research focuses on enzyme production and immobilization in mesoporous materials. Within the SUPRA... Christoph Sebastian Börlin PhD student Erik Boström Research Engineer Sinisa Bratulic Postdoc Carl Brunius Senior Researcher Carl Brunius investigates connections between food and health, to develop approaches for precision nutrition, i.e. healthy food tailored for individual requirements. His research focuses on Big Data... Filip Buric PhD student Filip Buric performs research in systems biology. He uses mathematical modelling and machine learning to help explain the behavior of living systems from a holistic point of view, using a data-driven... Martina Butorac Web administrator, Biology and Biological Engineering Martina Butorac has experience in graphic and web design, layout, photography, organization and management of projects and conferences. Martina is a web designer and has a MSc degree in graphic... Elena Cámara Postdoc Elena Cámara joined the Division of Industrial Biotechnology in September 2017 as a post-doctoral researcher. Her research is focused in the design and construction of more robust industrial strains... Kate Campbell Postdoc Sara Casado López Postdoc Dr. Sara Casado López did her PhD project in the Fungal Physiology group at the Westerdijk Fungal Biodiversity Institute and Utrecht University, The Netherlands, focusing on white-rot fungi and plant... Emanuele Celauro Postdoc; Biology and Biological Engineering, Chemical Biology Emanuele Celauro is a postdoc in the group of Elin Esbjörner Winters. His research interests include endocytosis, vesicular trafficking and intracellular delivery of therapeutic DNA/RNA; his main... Fang Chao Postdoc Yun Chen Senior Researcher, Systems Metabolic Engineering Yun Chen is a project leader at Systems and Synthetic Biology group. His research is centered on synthetic biology and metabolic engineering to develop efficient microbial cell factories for... Xin Chen Researcher Yu Chen Postdoc Ken Cheng Postdoc Ken Cheng is working on method development of untargeted fecal metabolomics to capture small metabolites derived from the interaction of diet × gut microbiota × host. The method will be applied in... Pierre-Etienne Cholley Research Engineer Iván Francisco Ciklic Researcher Dr. Iván Ciklic joined the industrial biotechnology division in October 2018, as a fellow of the MoRE2020 program for researcher’s mobility to the Västra Götaland region. He is working in a research... Daniel John Cook Postdoc Suzana Cvijetinovic Project assistant Suzana is a project assistant at the Division of Industrial Biotechnology. She is helping with the research on seaweeds to establish sustainable extraction of valuable substances. Her main interest... Fábio Luis Da Silva Faria Oliveira Postdoc Fábio Faria-Oliveira joined the Division of Industrial Biotechnology in March 2016 as a postdoctoral researcher. His research is focused on wild and non-conventional yeast strains with high potential... Yasaman Dabirian PhD student Erica Dahlin Financial Officer, Biology and Biological Engineering Erica works as Financial Officer for Systems and Synthetic Biology and Industrial Biotechnology. Zongijie Dai Visiting researcher Promi Das PhD student Florian David Assistant Professor, Biology and Biological Engineering, Systems and Synthetic Biology (Medical Biotechnology) Abderahmane Derouiche Postdoc Iván Domenzain Del Castillo Cerecer PhD student Tyler Doughty Postdoc Gustaf Edman Research engineer Martin Engqvist Assistant Professor, Biology and Biological Engineering, Systems and Synthetic Biology Martin Engqvist leads the group for biochemistry and biochemical genomics. As an Assistant Professor at the department of Biology and Bioengineering he focuses on determining which enzymes support... Niklas Engström Postdoc Elin Esbjörner Winters Associate Professor; Biology and Biological Engineering, Chemical Biology Elin Esbjörner is Associate Professor of Chemical Biology. Her research group studies protein misfolding and amyloid formation phenomena related to neurodegenerative diseases, using a combination of... Raphael Ferreira PhD student Bita Forghani Targhi Postdoc Bita Forghani is a researcher at the division of Food and Nutrition Science. Her research is mainly focused on the recovery of proteins and other nutrients from seafood processing waters using mild... Carl Johan Franzén Associate Professor, Biology and Biological Engineering, Industrial Biotechnology Carl Johan Franzén is Associate Professor in Bioreaction Engineering. He is Chair of the BIO Department Faculty Assembly, member of the equality committee and the undergraduate education committee at... Rikard Fristedt Senior research engineer Rikard Fristedt is a research engineer at the Department of Biology and Biological Engineering, Division of Food and Nutrition Science. He works primarily with method development, analysis and... Karolin Frykholm Researcher Karolin Frykholm is a postdoctoral researcher in the research group of Fredrik Westerlund. Her research interests include DNA recombination proteins like RecA and Rad51 and in the Westerlund group... Audrey Gallud Postdoc Audrey Gallud holds a PhD in biology and is specialized in nanomedicine and nanotoxicology. Her research is conducted in Elin Esbjörner Winters’ group, and within the FoRmulaEx – an industrial... Mia Gartner Administrator, Biology and Biological Engineering Mia works as Administrator for Food and Nutrition Science, Chemical Biology and the infrastructure CMSI. Veronica Gast PhD student Francesco Gatto Visiting researcher Francesco Gatto is a visiting researcher at Systems and Synthetic Biology division at the department of Biology and Biological Engineering. Cecilia Geijer Assistant Professor, Biology and Biological Engineering, Industrial Biotechnology Dr. Cecilia Geijer works as an Assistant Professor at the Division of Industrial Biotechnology. Her research focus is on developing yeast strains that can efficiently ferment all lignocellulosic... Jun Geng Postdoc Semhar Ghirmai PhD student Semhar Ghirmai is a Ph.D. student at Food and Nutrition Science. Her focus is on understanding the impact of blood on lipid oxidation in fish to minimize color changes and deterioration of the... Michael Gossing Visiting researcher Gaurav Goyal Postdoc Gaurav Goyal is working as a post-doc in the group of Fredrik Westerlund since August 2018. His research uses optical DNA mapping in nanochannels to study chromosomal structural variations. In... Swarnim Gupta Postdoc Swarnim Gupta is a postdoc at the division of Food and Nutrition Science. Her research centers around the development of bread fortified with a yeast capable of producing heme, and evaluation of... Johan Gustafsson PhD student Graziele Gustinelli Carvalho Ph.D. student Graziele Gustinelli is a PhD student in the Food and Nutrition Science division. She works with supercritical CO2 extraction of bioactive compounds from berry seeds. Her work is focused on... Sofie Halldén Head of Administration, Biology and Biological Engineering Sofie is Head of administration at the Department of Biology and Biological Engineering. The administration is a group of ten administrators, financial officers and communication officers giving... Hanna Harrysson Ph. D. student Hanna is a PhD student at the division of Food and Nutrition Science. Her research is mainly focused on the utilization of seaweeds as a novel source of vegetarian proteins, but also as a source of... Olle Hartvigsson PhD student Olle Hartvigsson is a PhD student at the division of Food and Nutrition Science. His research is mainly focused on trying to predict risk groups for allergy development in newborn children using... Zeinab Hefny Visiting PhD student Andreas Hellström Research Engineer Anne-Marie Hermansson Professor (emerita), Biology and Biological Engineering, Food and Nutrition Science Anne-Marie Hermansson, professor (emerita) in structured biomaterials, graduated in chemical engineering at Chalmers, PhD in Lund, and has over the years focused her research on biopolymers and... Stefan Hohmann Head of department, Biology and Biological Engineering; Professor, Systems and Synthetic Biology Istvan Horvath Researcher; Biology and Biological Engineering, Chemical Biology Istvan Horvath is a researcher in Pernilla's lab. The main focus of my research is protein misfolding and aggregation and its implications in various diseases including Parkinson’s disease... Seyedeh Shaghayegh Hosseini Senior Research Engineer Shaq has computer science and bioinformatics background. She is the manager of the computational lab and responsible for computational infrastructure at the sysbio division. Silvia Hüttner Postdoc Silvia Hüttner joined the Division of Industrial Biotechnology in spring 2014. Her research is focused on the identification and characterization of enzymes that break bonds in plant cell walls. The... Chaeho Im PhD student Chaeho Im is a PhD student in the division of Industrial Biotechnology. The topic of Chaeho’s PhD thesis is gene regulation in acetogens, during syngas fermentation or when microbes are grown in a... Olena Ishchuk Postdoc Kia Noehr Iversen PhD student Kia Nöhr Iversen is a PhD student at the unit of Food and Nutrition Sciences. Her research is focused on the influence of cereals on bodyweight, appetite regulation and metabolic profile. Overweight... Angela Janemalm Financial officer, Biology and Biological Engineering Angela works as Financial Officer for Food and Nutrition Science and Chemical Biology. Boyang Ji Postdoc Kai Jiang Postdoc Jiang Kai is a postdoctoral researcher in the research group of Fredrik Westerlund. His research interests include DNA-proteins interaction. In Westerlund’s group he is studying DNA-protein complex... Xiang Jiao Postdoc Anna Johanson PhD student Anna Sandersen joined the Industrial Biology group as industrial PhD student in January 2014. In collaboration with the dairy company Chr. Hansen her research is focused on Lactococcus lactis a... Karin Jonsson Post doc Karin's research interest deal with carbohydrates and health, with a focus on utilization. She is the project manager for the start-up of a public-private partnership on whole grain, with actors from... Viktor Jonsson Researcher Viktor Jonsson is a researcher in Chalmers Computational Systems Biology infrastructure. Julia Karlsson Research Engineer Gunilla Karlsson Administrator, Biology and Biological Engineering Gunilla works as Administrator for Systems and Synthetic Biology and the infrastructure CSBI. Anna Karlsson-Bengtsson Vice President of Education and Lifelong Learning Eduard Kerkhoven Project leader, Computational Metabolic Engineering Dr. Eduard Kerkhoven is a project leader in the department of Biology and Biological Engineering. His interest is in the use of computational models of metabolism, and he is involved in both the... Sriram Kesarimangalam Postdoc Sriram KK has a training in microfluidic and nanofluidic device fabrication for 8 years and will fabricate devices for single molecule DNA mapping experiments in Fredrik Westerlund group... Sakda Khoomrung Project leader Dr. Sakda Khoomrung is a project leader at Synthetic & System Biology, Department of Biology and Biological Engineering. He is an analytical chemist by training and has been long interested in the... Jacob Kindbom Research engineer at Chalmers mass spectrometry infrastructure Ross King Professor, Systems and Synthetic Biology Ross King is Professor of Machine Intelligence. Cathleen Kmezik PhD student Cathleen works as PhD student in the Division of Industrial Biotechnology and focusses on the creation of highly efficient plant biomass degrading bacteria for the production of short-chain fatty... Pinar Kocabas Postdoc Venkat Rao Konasani Postdoc Venkat Rao Konasani is a postdoctoral researcher in the division of Industrial Biotechnology. His primary research interest is in carbohydrate-acting enzymes. He currently works on the discovery of... Oliver Konzock PhD student Rakesh Koppram Visiting Researcher Rakesh Koppram works as a researcher for Taurus Energy AB which is interested in providing technology to produce bio-commodities from agricultural and forestry wastes/feedstocks. His work is focussed... Anne-Lise Kramer Department Administrator Anastasia Krivoruchko Project leader Dr. Anastasia Krivoruchko is a project leader in the Systems and Synthetic Biology Group. Her research is focused on using metabolic engineering to create yeast cell factories for production of... Daniel Krska PhD student Dan Krska started as a PhD student within the Industrial Biotechnology group in May of 2017. His research focuses on the investigation of thermophilic multi-catalytic enzymes from various... Ranjeet Kumar Research Engineer Ranjeet is a research engineer in Pernilla's team and works as a protein production support for the group. Rikard Landberg Professor; Head of Division of Food and Nutrition Science Rikard Landberg is professor of Food and Health. His group is studying the impact of food and food components may have on health and disease risk in observational and intervention studies as well as... Dimitra Lappa PhD student Johan Larsbrink Associate Professor, Biology and Biological Engineering, Industrial Biotechnology Johan Larsbrink works as Associate Professor at the Division of Industrial Biotechnology, which he joined in 2015. He obtained his PhD at the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) in 2013 and... Karin Larsson Research engineer, Dept of Biology and Biological Engineering, Food and Nutrition Science Karin Larsson is research engineer at Food and Nutrition Science. She is supporting and working closely with different researchers and aid in their laboratory work in various projects. Christer Larsson Professor, Microbial Physiology, Biology and Biological Engineering, Systems and Synthetic Biology Dr Christer Larsson is Professor at the division of Systems and Synthetic Biology. He has a long standing interest in yeast physiology, regulation of metabolic pathways and the importance of energy... Ibai Lenitz Etxaburu PhD student Ibai Lenitz joined the Industrial Biotechnology Division as a PhD student in September 2019. His research focuses on understanding the regulation of study of tolerance-related genes in yeast for... Sune Levin PhD student Sune Levin is since 2016 a PhD student in Fredrik Westerlund's group at the Division of Chemical Biology. His research aims to increase understanding of heterogeneous catalysis on the surface of... Gang Li PhD student Xiaowei Li Postdoc Feiran Li PhD student Peishun Li PhD student Han Li Visiting researcher Angelo Limeta PhD student Angelo Limeta performs research in cancer systems biology. He interfaces computational techniques with biological omics data in order to further our understanding of why certain patients respond... Yii Lih Lin Postdoc Yii-Lih Lin is a postdoctoral researcher in the group of Fredrik Westerlund. His research interests include biosensors and micro/nanofabrication for biological applications, and his project in the... Julia Lind Environmental coordinator Emelie Lindquist Research engineer Annette Lindskog Administrator, Department of Biology and Biological Engineering Yi Liu Postdoc Quanli Liu Postdoc Biology and Biological Engineering, Systems and Synthetic Biology Dany Liu PhD student Hongzhong Lu Postdoc Quentin Lubart Postdoc, Biology and Biological Engineering, Chemical Biology Quentin first joined Chalmers in Fredrik Höök’s team, in February 2017, after finishing his PhD in molecular biophysics at the Université Grenoble-Alpes (France). He started to develop a new... Hao Luo PhD student Jeroen Maertens Postdoc Jeroen Maertens joined the Division of Industrial Biotechnology in May 2017 as a postdoctoral researcher. His research project involves membrane engineering of yeast in order to obtain more robust... Nuria Majaliwa PhD student Nuria Majaliwa is a PhD student at the division of Food and Nutrition Science. Her project is focused on studies on protein-tannin interactions during mechanical extraction of clear banana juice... Carl Malina PhD student Mia Malmstedt Communications officer, Biology and Biological Engineering Jiwei Mao Postdoc Valeria Mapelli Visiting researcher My research is in the field of applied industrial microbiology. Special focus of my research is on metabolic engineering of yeast, understanding microbial physiology for improvement of industrial... Simonas Marcisauskas PhD student Cecilia Mayer Labba PhD student Cecilia Mayer Labba is a PhD student at the division of food and nutrition science. Her research focuses on health effects of the protein shift, with emphasis on Swedish fava bean protein. To carry... Joshua Mayers Visiting Researcher Joshua joined as a post-doctoral researcher in the Algal Biotechnology group in the division of Industrial Biotechnology in June 2014. He gained his PhD in Biological Sciences at Swansea University... Scott Mazurkewich Postdoc Scott Mazurkewich joined the Division of Industrial Biotechnology in August 2016 as a postdoctoral researcher. He is investigating enzymes from strains of Bacteroidetes, strains which are known to... Friederike Mierke PhD student Friederike joined the division of Food and Nutrient Science as a PhD student in June 2019. Her research focuses on bio-based production of bioplastics in yeast. The aim is the development of... Ivan Mijakovic Professor, Bacterial Systems Biology; Head of Division of Systems and Synthetic Biology, Biology and Biological Engineering Ivan Mijakovic is a professor in Bacterial Systems Biology. More information about publications and the other details: Mijakovic Lab Mikael Molin Postdoc Punchalee Montriwat Research engineer Punchalee Montriwat has a M.Sc. degree in Biotechnology from Chalmers University of Technology, and works since November 2018 as a research engineer at the Division of Industrial Biotechnology. She... Maurizio Mormino PhD student Graduated at Pisa University, Maurizio has a background in Biochemistry and System Biology, with microscopy as main field of expertise. As a PhD student at Chalmers University of Technology, his... Vaskar Mukherjee Postdoc Vaskar Mukherjee joined The Division of Industrial Biotechnology in May 2018 as a postdoctoral researcher. His research focus is to fine-tune and understand the stress response of Saccharomyces... Vilhelm Müller PhD student Vilhelm Müller is since 2015 a PhD student in Fredrik Westerlund’s group at the Division of Chemical Biology. His research is based on studying fluorescently labeled DNA at a single molecule level by... Irem Nasir Postdoc Sergiu Netotea Researcher Sergiu is a researcher in Chalmers Systems Biology infrastructure. David Nickel PhD student David was educated at the TU Berlin and has a scientific background in bioprocess development, modelling and optimization. As a PhD student he investigates the impact of the lignocellulosic raw... Jens B Nielsen Professor, Quantitative Systems Biology; Systems and Synthetic Biology, Biology and Biological Engineering Jens Nielsen is Professor of Quantitative Systems Biology and directing a research group of more than 60 people. Jens Nielsen has so far published more than 550 research papers that have been cited... Avlant Nilsson PhD student Jenny Nilsson Administrator, Department of Biology and Biological Engineering Susanne Nilsson Lindh Communications Officer Intawat Nookaew Visiting researcher, Biology and Biological Engineering, Systems and Synthetic Biology Joakim Norbeck Researcher, Molecular Biotechnology; Biology and Biological Engineering, Systems and Synthetic Biology Elise Nordin PhD student Vera Novy Postdoc My Nyblom PhD Student My Nyblom is since 2018 a PhD student in Fredrik Westerlund’s research group at the Division of Chemical Biology. Her research is focused towards understanding the processes of DNA damage and repair... Yvonne Nygård Assistant Professor, Biology and Biological Engineering, Industrial Biotechnology Yvonne Nygård works as Assistant Professor in the Division of Industrial Biotechnology, specializing in cell factory design. Her main expertise is metabolic engineering and synthetic biology, and she... Lisbeth Olsson Professor, Head of Division of Industrial Biotechnology Lisbeth Olsson works in the area of Industrial Biotechnology focusing on design and use of enzymes and microorganisms in processes where plant cell wall material is converted to fuels, chemicals and... Joakim Olsson PhD student Joakim Olsson is a PhD student working in the Industrial Biotechnology group. His research is on seaweeds and how valuable substances can be extracted and preserved. It spans from exploring the... Adila Omar PhD student Nor Adila is a working on the role of carbohydrate quality low grade systemic inflammation. Inflammation plays a major role for the development of several chronic diseases. Results from her studies... Linnea Österberg PhD student Robin Öz PhD Student Robin Öz is since 2016 a PhD student in Fredrik Westerlund's group at the Division of Chemical Biology. His research aims to increase understanding of how proteins interact with DNA. The idea is to... Marie Palmnäs Postdoc Marie Palmnäs is the project manager of a European collaboration effort by the DiGuMet Consortium (JPI-INTIMIC). Her research focuses on the interaction between the diet and the gut microbiota. The... Santosh Pandit Postdoc Santosh Pandit is joint post doc with Ivan Mijakovic and Fredrik Westerlund at Department of Biology and Biological Engineering, working since July 2015. His research is related to graphene... Alexandra Paul PhD Student Alexandra Paul is a PhD student in the Group of Molecular Microscopy working with non-linear microscopy to investigate cells in complex three-dimensional matrices. The main goal of her project is the... Rui Pereira Postdoc Astrid Persson Research Engineer Dina Petranovic Nielsen Associate professor, Molecular Biology; Biology and Biological Engineering, Systems and Synthetic Biology Dina Petranovic teaches molecular and cell biology and directs the group of Yeast Cell Aging and Death. The main focus of the group is to study (by experimental and computational approaches)... Pawel Piatek Postdoc Pawel joined the Industrial Biotechnology group as a post-doctoral researcher in November 2017. His PhD work at the University of Nottingham was in Molecular Microbiology, focusing on the... Kumaravel Ponnandai Schanmugavel PhD student; Biology and Biological Engineering, Chemical Biology Kumaravel Ponnandai Shanmugavel is a Phd Student in Division of Chemical Biology (Pernilla Wittung Stafshede's group) and works on the engineered yeast to study the mechanism of Copper ion transport... Nathan Porter Postdoc Nathan joined the Division of Industrial Biotechnology in June 2018 as a postdoctoral scientist. His work focuses on the ability of certain gut-dwelling bacteria (members of the Bacteroidetes phylum)... Qi Qi PhD student Ning Qin Visiting PhD student Shadi Rahimi Postdoc Shadi Rahimi works as the postdoctoral researcher in the division of Systems and Synthetic Biology. She focuses her research on bacterial metabolite engineering. The goal is to get benefits of the... Patrick Philipp Reith PhD student Patrick has a MSc Degree in Biology from Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich. At Chalmers he is working on the development of synthetic sensors for macromolecular crowding in Yeast cells. Cellular... Elzbieta Rembeza PhD student Jonathan Robinson Postdoc Sandra Rocha Researcher; Biology and Biological Engineering, Chemical Biology Sandra Rocha studies protein structure, protein aggregation and protein interaction with lipid membranes using biophysical techniques. The proteins studied include alpha-synuclein, whose aggregation... Alastair Ross Associate professor, Biology and Biological Engineering, Food and Nutrition Science Alastair Ross is an assistant professor in nutritional metabolomics. His main areas of research interest include the effect of diet on metabolism, measuring dietary intake using biomarkers, and whole... Agnetha Rostgaard-Hansen PhD student Agnetha Rostgaard-Hansen is a PhD student at the unit of Food and Nutrition Science and at the Danish Cancer Society Research Center, Copenhagen. Her research focuses on food questionnaire... Veronica Saez Jimenez Postdoc Verónica Sáez-Jiménez joined the Division of Industrial Biotechnology in August 2016. Her research is focused on enzymology and protein engineering. Her main aim is the generation of a novel enzyme... Rasool Saghaleyni PhD student Soroush Saheb Alam Postdoc Soroush Saheb Alam joined the Industrial Biotechnology group as a post-doctoral researcher in July 2018. He has a PhD degree from Chalmers University of Technology on bioelectrochemical systems... Mursalin Sajib PhD student Mursalin Sajib is a PhD student at the division of Food and Nutrition Science. The aim of his PhD project is to valorize fish processing by-products into silages. Industrial seafood processing... Katja Salomon Johansen Visiting Researcher Katja S. Johansen works in the area of industrial use of carbohydrate active enzymes. She is visiting Chalmers for one year and comes with 13 years of experience from the large biotech company... Ann-Sofie Sandberg Professor, Biology and Biological Engineering, Food and Nutrition Science The major theme in Professor Sandberg’s research is the utilization of biological techniques to improve nutrient properties or physiological function of foods or food components. This includes... Nima Sasanian PhD student Otto Savolainen Researcher Otto is a researcher at Chalmers Mass Spectrometry infrastructure. Parthenia Savvidi Research engineer Parthenia Savvidi joined the Division of Industrial Biotechnology at Chalmers in August 2018 as a Research Engineer. She holds a M.Sc. in Molecular Biology from the University of Gothenburg. Her goal... Ann-Britt Schäfer PhD student Nathalie Scheers Associate professor, Biology and Biological Engineering, Food and Nutrition Science Nathalie Scheers research focus is within the area of molecular nutrition. She and her team investigate intra/extracellular effects of absorbed nutrients e.g. metals, gluten, and the fish protein... Marie Schöpping PhD student Marie Schöpping is an industrial PhD student at the Division of Industrial Biotechnology and the Bacterial Physiology department at Chr. Hansen, a global supplier of food cultures, probiotics... Fredrik Schubert Research engineer Louis Scott Visiting researcher Ulrika Segrén Financial Officer, Biology and Biological Engineering Andrea Seveso PhD student Andrea joined the division of Industrial Biotechnology as a PhD student in April 2019, as part of the Wallenberg Wood Science Center. His research focuses on discovery and characterization of novel... Rajhans Sharma Postdoc Dr. Rajhans Sharma joined Prof. Fredrik Westerlund’s group in June 2018 as a post-doctoral researcher. His research focuses on using micro/nanofluidic technologies in combination with fluorescence... Lei Shi Postdoc Lin Shi Postdoc Lin Shi’s research focus on the comprehensive analysis of metabolites and proteins in biological samples from humans, aiming to improve the understanding of the biological, environmental and... Jae Ho Shin PhD student Jae Ho Shin is a PhD student in the Industrial Biotechnology division. His research involves synthetic pathway engineering and host strain engineering. He is also part of BioBUF project and his role... Verena Siewers Senior Researcher, Molecular Biology; Biology and Biological Engineering, Systems and Synthetic Biology Verena Siewers is a project leader at the Department of Biology and Biological Engineering in the Systems and Synthetic Biology Group. Her main research interest is the application of yeast as a cell... Vandana Singh Postdoc Vandana Singh is a postdoctoral researcher in Fredrik Westerlund’s group. Her research interest includes development of sensitive assays to detect DNA damage with emphasis on detection at the single... Emma Skoog PhD student Emma Karlsson joined the Industrial Biology group as a PhD student in January 2014. She is part of the BioBUF-project where her main task is to engineer a strain with possibility to produce adipic... Christos Skrekas PhD student Nikulkumar Soni Ph. D. student Nikul Soni is a PhD student at the Food science unit. His project is a part of the Designing novel marine food products for healthy aging where the aim is to promote healthy aging by increased fish... Amanda Sörensen Ristinmaa PhD student Amanda Sörensen Ristinmaa joined the industrial biotechnology division as a PhD student in April 2019. Her research focuses on biochemical deconstruction of bark and identification of bark-degrading... Mia Stråvik Project assistant Alexandra Stubelius Assistant Professor Vinoth Sundar Rajan PostDoc, Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Chemistry and Biochemistry Vinoth SUNDAR RAJAN joined as a Postdoctoral Researcher in the Wilhelmsson Research Group, Division of Chemistry and Biochemistry. The project aims to investigate inter- and intramolecular forces in... Ulf Svanberg Professor (emeritus), Biology and Biological Engineering, Food and Nutrition Science Professor Ulf Svanberg leads research projects addressing vitamin A and iron deficiency anaemia in low-income countries. He has ongoing and long-term cooperation with countries in Sub-Saharan Africa... Thomas Svensson Senior researcher Thomas is a researcher in Chalmers Systems Biology infrastructure. Marcel Taillefer Postdoc Marcel Taillefer joined the Division of Industrial Biotechnology in October 2016 as a post-doctoral researcher. His research is focused on the elucidation of the carbohydrate active enzyme... Paulo Teixeira Postdoc Stefan Tippmann Visiting researcher Ievgeniia Tiukova Postdoc Ievgeniia has worked on different aspects of microbial biotechnology since 2009 with focus on the production of fuels, food and feed using yeasts. Her previous research has involved several species... Monika Tõlgo PhD student Monika started as a PhD student in 2019 and she is part of the Wallenberg Wood Science Center . Monika’s research is about discovery and characterisation of novel carbohydrate-active enzymes... Marta Tous Mohedano PhD student João Pedro Trigo PhD student João Trigo is a PhD student at the division of Food and Nutrition Science. His research is mainly focused on the use of seaweed as a source of novel food proteins. A gradual shift from animal- to... Cecilia Tullberg PhD student Cecilia Tullberg is a Ph.D. student in the marine research group, working with oxidation of marine long-chain n-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids (LC n-3 PUFA, also called omega-3 fatty acids) during... Ingrid Undeland Professor, Biology and Biological Engineering, Food and Nutrition Science Ingrid Undeland is professor of Food science. Her research deals primarily with ways of optimizing the use of marine raw materials (fish, shellfish, algae) through development of efficient quality... Marlous van Dijk PhD student Educated at Delft University of Technology, Marlous has a background in both yeast metabolic engineering and quantitative physiology. Her main expertise is with cultivation of yeast in bioreactors... Emelie Vilhelmsson Wesén PhD student; Biology and Biological Engineering, Chemical Biology Emelie Lindahl Wesén is since 2014 a PhD student in Elin Esbjörner Winters’ research group at the division of Chemical Biology. Her research is focused on studying the uptake and intracellular... Maria Vizcaino Research engineer at Chalmers mass spectrometry infrastructure I have practical experience in mass spectrometry with a focus on analytical and bioanalytical method development, optimization, and validation under GLP/GMP regulations. As part of CMIS at Chalmers... Ula von Mentzer PhD student Hao Wang Postdoc Yanyan Wang PhD student Tao Wei Visiting researcher Niek Welkenhuysen Postdoctoral researcher, Biology and Biological Engineering I study how aging factors are retained along cell lineages. Aging of biological cells is characterized by appearance and propagation of harmful molecules which have a deteriorating effect on the... Michaela Wenzel Assistant Professor Michaela Wenzel a microbiologist interested in antibiotic mechanisms of action and bacterial mechanisms of resistance. Her group uses fluorescence and electron microscopy together with proteomic and... Tony Werner PhD student; Biology and Biological Engineering, Chemical Biology Tony Werner is a PhD student in the Wittung-Stafshede lab. His research focuses on a fundamental understanding of protein misfolding and aggregation toward amyloid fibrils, which is a common... Fredrik Westerlund Professor; Biology and Biological Engineering Head of Division of Chemical Biology Fredrik Westerlund's research is devoted to studying single DNA molecules in nanofluidic channels using fluorescence microscopy. Focus is directed both towards developing new techniques to map DNA... Tove Widén Project assistant Leif Wigge Researcher Leif Väremo is a researcher in Chalmers Systems Biology infrastructure. Pernilla Wittung Stafshede Professor, Biology and Biological Engineering, Chemical Biology Pernilla Wittung-Stafshede is since 2015 professor (division head 2015-2018) at the Chemical Biology division in the Biology and Biological Engineering department. She leads a research group that... Haizhou Wu Postdoc Haizhou Wu is a postdoc at the division of Food and Nutrition Science. His research is mainly focused on developing new technologies for stabilization of seafood by-products against lipid oxidation... Nikolaos Xafenias Visiting researcher, Biology and Biological Engineering, Industrial Biotechnology Dr. Nikolaos Xafenias is a researcher at the Department of Biology and Biological Engineering. His research focuses on the sustainable production of valuable chemicals and fuels, and the recovery of... Tao Yu Postdoc Tao Yu Postdoc Le Yuan PhD student Nafisa M Yusuf Project assistant Aleksej Zelezniak Assistant Professor, Biology and Biological Engineering, Systems and Synthetic Biology Xiaolu Zhang PhD student; Biology and Biological Engineering, Chemical Biology Xiaolu Zhang is a PhD Student in Division of Chemical Biology and investigates the role of copper and copper-binding proteins in cancer metastasis. She also works on studying the role of human Copper... Jingnan Zhang PhD student Jingnan Zhang is a PhD student at the division of Food and Nutrition Science. Her research revolves around creating novel functional seafood protein ingredients from underutilized marine muscle... Rui Zheng Visiting PhD student Zhu Zhiwei Postdoc Jan Zrimec Postdoc