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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 Marie Abbet Research engineer Mehdi Abdollahi Researcher Mehdi is a researcher specialist 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... Sebastian Åberg PhD student 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... 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 Senior Research Engineer Marina Armeni Research Engineer Gunilla Bankel Administrator, Biology and Biological Engineering Gunilla works as Administrator for Industrial Biotechnology and TreeSearch 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 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... Stephanie Blockhuys Post-Doctoral Researcher Dr. Stéphanie Blockhuys investigates the role of copper and copper-binding proteins in cancer progression. Sinisa Bratulic Researcher Carl Brunius Associate professor, Biology and Biological Engineering, Food and Nutrition Science 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... Daniel Brunnsåker PhD student 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... Fabio Caputo PhD student Fabio graduated at University of Napoli ”Federico II” in Industrial Biotechnology. Then, in 2020, Fabio became a PhD student at Chalmers University of Technology. His reasearch focuses on the design... Nils-Gunnar Carlsson Senior research engineer Nils-Gunnar Carlsson is a research engineer at the Food science unit. He is working mainly with chromatography, method development and with maintaining the about 15 different HPLC/GC systems at the... 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 Yanyan Chen Postdoc Yanyan Chen is a postdoc fellow working with Prof. Ivan Mijakovic at Division of Systems and Synthetic Biology since January 2021. Her research is related to exploring biomedical and industrial... Pierre-Etienne Cholley Research Engineer Andrea Clausen Lind PhD student Tom Coleman Postdoc Tom Coleman joined the Division of Industrial Biotechnology in November 2020 on a postdoctoral researcher. He earned his Ph.D. at the University of Adelaide in 2018 and spent 2 years as a... 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. Florian David Assistant Professor, Biology and Biological Engineering, Systems and Synthetic Biology (Medical Biotechnology) Darja Dobermann Postdoc Iván Domenzain Del Castillo Cerecer PhD student 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... 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... Bita Forghani Targhi Researcher 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... Jing Fu Postdoc Xiaozhi Fu Postdoc 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 Visiting Researcher 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 Alexander Gower PhD student 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... Johan Gustafsson PhD student Kati Hanhineva Visiting researcher 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... John Hellgren PhD student 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... Nanna Hjort Vidkjaer Postdoc Thérése Hjorth PhD student Stefan Hohmann Head of department, Biology and Biological Engineering; Professor, Systems and Synthetic Biology Jenny Hörlyk Administrator, Department of Biology and Biological Engineering 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... Heidi Howard Visiting Researcher Yating Hu Postdoc 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 Researcher 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 Visiting Researcher 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... Shan Jiang Postdoc 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 Researcher 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... Julia Karlsson Research Engineer Gunilla Karlsson Administrator, Biology and Biological Engineering Gunilla works as Administrator for Systems and Synthetic Biology and the infrastructure CSBI. 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 Researcher 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... Jacob Kindbom Research engineer at Chalmers mass spectrometry infrastructure Ross King Professor, Systems and Synthetic Biology Ross King is Professor of Machine Intelligence. Cheewin Kittikunapong PhD student 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... Oliver Konzock PhD student 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... Xiaowei Li Researcher Feiran Li PhD student Peishun Li PhD student 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... Emelie Lindquist Holmberg Senior Research Engineer Quanli Liu Visiting Researcher Dany Liu PhD student Patricia Lopez-Sanchez Visiting researcher Dr. Patricia Lopez-Sanchez joined the Division of Food and Nutrition Science as a guest researcher in January 2020. Her research interest focuses on molecular structures and properties of plant... 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 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 Researcher Carl Ivar Möller PhD student 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... 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. Jens Nielsen has an MSc degree in Chemical Engineering and a PhD degree (1989) in Biochemical Engineering from the Danish Technical... Avlant Nilsson Postdoc Elise Nordin PhD student Elise is a PhD student at the division of Food and Nutrition Science. Her research is in the field of personalized nutrition in the project Optimal Diets for Metabotypes (OpDiMet). She has conducted... Karin Norling Doctor, Department of Biology and Biological Engineering I joined the Division of Biological Physics for my Master’s thesis in 2014. My research project is aimed at developing and characterizing nanoparticles for mucosal vaccine delivery. I develop in... Vera Novy Postdoc Vera Novy is a post-doc and joined the Division of Industrial Biotechnology in September 2019. Her research concerns the selective recovery of plant-based polyesters from lignocellulosic biomass... 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... 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 Maximilian Otto 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 Researcher 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... Kameshwara Venkata Ramana Peri PhD student In his PhD at Chalmers University of Technology, Kamesh studies metabolic gene clusters dedicated to sugar utilization in non-conventional yeasts. To make a bioprocess economically feasible, complete... 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... Cecilia Picazo Campos Postdoc Naghmeh Poorinmohammad Postdoc 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 Vijayendran Raghavendran Research engineer Vijay Raghavendran joined the Division of Industrial Biotechnology in September 2020. Vijay holds a PhD in microbial biotechnology from Technical University of Denmark and has conducted postdoctoral... 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... Jonas Ravn Postdoc Dr. Jonas Ravn has a MSc in biotechnology from Copenhagen University and an Industrial PhD. from Novozymes and the Department of Bacteriology & Pathology at Ghent University, Belgium. Here, he... Susanne Reinsbach Researcher 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... Fariba Roshanzamir Postdoc Peter Rugbjerg Postdoc 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 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... 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. 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... 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... Lei Shi Researcher 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... Mariasole Sica Visiting researcher Margareth Sidarta PhD student In the era where multi-resistant superbugs have become the global health threat, Margareth Sidarta studies bacterial cell envelope stress responses against antibiotics in her PhD project. Using... 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... Viktor Skantze PhD student Viktor Skantze conducts research in the area of precision nutrition or ”personalized nutrition”. The goal is to develop data- and model driven methods that facilitates the tailoring of diets at an... Christos Skrekas PhD student Nikulkumar Soni Research Engineer 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 PhD student Mia Stråvik is a PhD-student at the division of Food and Nutrition Science. Her research is a part of the national birth-cohort Nutritional impact on Immunological maturation during Childhood in... Alexandra Stubelius Assistant Professor The overall goal of Alexandra Stubelius’ research is to reshape and remodel the inflammatory microenvironment towards to accelerate tissue homeostasis using advanced nanotherapeutics. She holds a PhD... Vinoth Sundar Rajan PostDoc Vinoth SUNDAR RAJAN joined as a Postdoctoral Researcher in the Westerlund Research Group, Division of Chemical Biology. The project aims to investigate inter- and intramolecular forces in nucleic... 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... Agata Tarczykowska PhD student Musa Tartik Visiting researcher Ievgeniia Tiukova Researcher 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... Luca Torello Pianale PhD student Luca Torello Pianale joined the Industrial Biotechnology Division as a PhD student in November 2019. His research focuses on deepening the knowledge on yeast robustness. Yeast finds extensive... 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 Trivellin PhD student Cecilia Trivellin joined the Industrial Biotechnology Division as a PhD student in November 2019. Her research focuses on understanding the molecular mechanisms of microbial robustness: the... 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... Daniel van Leeuwen Postdoc Daniël van Leeuwen is a Postdoc in the Esbjörner research group and part of the FoRmulaEx Industrial research centre . His research focuses on studying lipid nanoparticle formulations (LNP) and... Sandra Viknander PhD student 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... Ula von Mentzer PhD student Hao Wang Visiting Researcher Yanyan Wang PhD student Caroline Wasén Postdoc 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 Tove holds a MSc degree in biotechnology from Chalmers University of Technology. She joined the Division of Industrial Biotechnology in July 2019 and is a project assistant working with syngas... 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... Moa Wranne Postdoc Moa S. Wranne is a postdoctoral researcher in Fredrik Westerlund group at the Division of Chemical Biology since 2020. She participates in a collaboration with Karolinska Institutet and Muhimbili... 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... Yihan Xia Postdoc Tao Yu Postdoc Le Yuan PhD student Nafisa M Yusuf Project assistant Simone Zaghen PhD student Simone Zaghen is a PhD student in the department of Biology and Biological engineering, division of Systems and synthetic biology, Kerkhoven research group. His research is focused on the production... Mohsen Zareian Postdoc 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... Jan Zrimec Postdoc