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- Team Leader, Environmental Biotechnology
- Lecturer, Environmental Biotechnology
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CV
- Since 09-2022: Professor of Environmental Biotechnology, Institute for Ecopreneurship. School of Life Sciences, University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland (FHNW, Muttenz)
- Since 09-2015: Dr. Honoris Causa Technical University of Iasi (Romania)
- Since 09-2013: Adjunct Professor at Yancheng Institute of Environmental Technology and Engineering
- Since 09-2012: Lecturer qualification (habilitation) at the University of Basel
- Since 03-2011: Co-founder of INOFEA AG (innovative nanobiocatalysts)
- Since 09-2010 Adjunct Professor at Nanjing University. School of the Environment, State Key Laboratory of Pollution Control and Resource Reuse (SKL-PCRR) (China)
- May 2007-Sept 2022: Professor of Environmental Biotechnology and Head of the Institute for Ecopreneurship. School of Life Sciences, University of Applied Sciences Northwestern Switzerland (FHNW, Muttenz)
- Since 05 2007: Adjunct lecturer (Privatdozent) at the RWTH Aachen University (Germany)
- Mai 2007: Lecturer qualification (Habilitation) “Venia Legendi in Environmental Microbiology”
- September 2003-April 2007: Scientific assistant (Postdoc) for research and teaching at the Institute of Environmental Research – Chair for Environmental Biology and Chemodynamics, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany). Leader of the group: Environmental Microbiology and Technology
- May 2003-August 2003: Postdoc at the Unit of Bioengineering of the Catholic University of Louvain (UCL) in Louvain la Neuve (Belgium)
- May 2001-Avril 2003: Postdoc at the Institute of Environmental Engineering (ISA, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen). Coordination of the research works of 10 PhD students on the elimination of endocrine disrupters from wastewater (Graduate College AGEESA, German Research Foundation, DFG). Research activity: Nonylphenol microbial degradation by Sphingomonas
- November 2000-February 2001: Research Engineer. Laboratory of the Bioprocesses in Food Industry (LABIAL), at the Elite High School Ecole Nationale Supérieure d’Agronomie et des Industries Alimentaires (ENSAIA) of the Institut National Polytechnique de Lorraine (INPL); Nancy (France)
- February 2000-April 2000: Teaching (in parallel to PhD) at the Institut Universitaire de Technologie (IUT A) – Université des Sciences et des Technologies de Lille (USTL, France); Department of Bioengineering; Villeneuve d’Ascq (59). Fermentation processes for technicians in food industry and biology
- October 1997-September 2000: PhD as employee of the French Ministry of Education Research and Technologies (MENRT)
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Teaching
Teaching activity
- Environmental biotechnology
- Chemistry of aquatic systems
- Basics in environmental risks assessment
- Radioanalytics
- Cleaner production and clean technologies
- Training in environmental biotechnology
- Training in environmental chemistry and ecotoxicology
- Training in fermentation processes
- Seminars in environmental and analytical chemistry
- Supervision of 16 PhD and over 20 Master Theses
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