Alexander Beck

Postdoctoral scientist in the innovation field "industrial biotechnology" https://www.igb.fraunhofer.de/en/research/industrial-biotechnology/bioprocess-engineering.html Research areas: Microbial production of biosurfactants Enzymatic modification of plant oils Process scale-up and modelling Current and previous projects: Allianz Biotenside - https://www.allianz-biotenside.de/ SUSBIND - https://susbind.eu/ Carbosurf - http://www.carbosurf.eu/

PhD researcher at the Fraunhofer Institute for Interfacial Engineering and Biotechnology (IGB), Group Bioprocess Development/Industrial Biotechnology. In close cooperation with the Institute of Interfacial Engineering and Plasma Technology (IGVP) at the University of Stuttgart. Topic: Development of scalable processes for the production of microbial biosurfactants. Areas of interest: Bioprocess engineering, Process modelling, Metabolism and regulation of biosynthesis

Graduate Research Assistant at the Chair of Bioprocess Engineering at FAU Erlangen Topic: Influence of cholesterol and oxysterols on viral infection in fish cells.

Topic: "Extraction and APCI-MS analysis of cholesterol and oxysterols from fish cells for virus infection studies"

GC-MS and HPLC analysis of flavours and beverages. Development of analytical methods. Data analysis and documentation of results. Creating standard operating procedures for developed methods. Publishing of results in presentations.

Student research assistant at the Chair of Bioprocess Engineering at FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg. Topic: Development of a gas-chromatographic separation protocol for the determination of glycosylation patterns in recombinant proteins.

Process engineering in biotechnology

The Bioeconomy Research Program Baden-Württemberg was designed to support research and networking in bioeconomy. It consists of three research networks in the areas biogas, lignocellulose and microalgae, and as integrative activities the competence network modeling the bioeconomy, the graduate program BBW ForWerts and accompanying research activities in social sciences and ecology. https://biooekonomie-bw.uni-hohenheim.de/en/111938

- Economics - International Business - Sustainable Energy Systems

- Bioprocess Engineering - Downstream Processing - Mechanical Process Engineering - Medical Biotechnology - Cell Culture - Bioanalysis