The Environmental Biotechnology section aims to enhance and improve bioprocesses for waste treatment and resource recovery. To achieve this, the group conducts research on microbial ecosystems at various levels, from molecular to full-scale bioprocesses.
On the microbial ecology level, the focus is on engineering microbial communities to achieve a desired functionality, such as producing energy carriers and precursors. At the process engineering level, the focus is on biofilms.
Both the process and microbial levels are enhanced through innovative molecular-level meta-omics techniques. These provide insights into the metabolome, metaproteome and metagenome, which furthermore enable computational models to predict microbial metabolism and growth.
Academic Staff
Heike Schmitt
Full Professor (part time)
Support Staff
Ben Abbas
Technician
Patricia van Dam
Technician
Dirk Geerts
Technician
Miranda Verhulst
Management assistant
Past Academic Staff
Filip Meysman
Former Full Professor (part time)www.microbial-electricity.eu | University of Antwerp
filip.meysman@uantwerpen.be | +32 494 06 43 27
David Weissbrodt
Former Principal InvestigatorAssistant Professor
