Microbes in Water

"My research is aimed at understanding unicellular plankton communities."

"I am interested in open microbial communities in an environmental engineering context, with a special interest in water systems. I combine approaches rooted in microbial ecology with real system sampling, and laboratory experimentation to understand how to mitigate antimicrobial dissemination."

| Arnaud Dechesne, DTU Environment

"I work with diseases in fish and shellfish: host-pathogen interaction, infection models (pathogen transmission and survival on and in the host), disease prevention, and diagnostic methods."

| Lone Madsen, DTU Aqua

"May main research areas include Aquaculture, Microbial water quality, Biofiltration, and Disinfection."

| Lars-Flemming Pedersen, DTU Aqua

"I am working on process modeling and control, circular bio-economy and technology development, biological nutrient removal, biofilm, membrane aerated bioreactor, sedimentation and filamentous bulking, carbon and nutrient recovery, micro-pollutant biodegradation, green microalgae, microbial protein, bio-electrochemistry and anaerobic digestion."

| Borja Valverde-Pérez, DTU Environment

"I study microbial communities and processes in the aquaculture environments, aiming to optimize microbial-driven nutrient removal processes and to control unwanted microbial processes to ensure stable and sustainable fish production."

| Sanni-Leea Aalto, DTU Aqua

"My research interests lie at the crossroads of microbiology, engineering, and electrochemistry towards addressing the water-energy-food nexus. I and my team aim to advance the feasibility and sustainability of a circular economy, which aligns with multiple UN Sustainable Development Goals through sustainable water treatment, resource recovery, CO2 capture and utilization, biosynthesis, and environmental bioremediation & monitoring."

| Yifeng Zhang, DTU Environment

"Our research is focused on protist-bacteria predator-prey interactions in the ocean, fluid mechanics of flagellate foraging, microbe-particle (marine snow) interactions in the ocean, and the roles of microbes in ocean biogeochemistry."

| Thomas Kiørboe, DTU Aqua

"I study bacterial eco-physiology and biotechnology and focus on aquatic bacteria (freshwater and marine). We aimed at two goals: to control, i.e. kill or inhibit disease-promoting bacteria, and to enable biotechnological use of bacteria. I am particularly interested in microbial secondary metabolites; their natural functions and biotechnological application."

| Lone Gram, DTU Bioengineering

"My research is focused on interactions between marine microbes and biogeochemical cycles of carbon, nitrogen and phosphorus. We focus on processes occurring in the water column, and occasionally in sediments/soils."

| Colin Stedmon, DTU Aqua

"We are guiding innovation in microbial fermentation with a rational and quantitative economic and environmental impact assessment."

| Sumesh Sukumara, DTU Biosustain

"I am interested in research on biofilms for larvae settlement and biofouling in the marine environment. In collaboration with colleagues, I am working on shellfish pathogens and disease, and water quality monitoring (bacteria, virus) for animal safety."

| Camille Saurel, DTU Aqua

"We use the theory of evolution as a framework for discovery and engineering of specialized metabolites from Fungi and Bacteria."

| Pablo Cruz-Morales, DTU Biosustain

"I am interested in microbiomes in recirculating aquaculture systems, including the microbiome and its association in (infectious) diseases in fish."

| Argelia Cuenca, DTU Aqua

"My research is mainly focused at developing a better understanding of the interactions between microbes and bioreactors, aiming in the end at obtaining a better efficiency of bio-based production processes."

| Krist Gernaey, DTU Chemical Engineering

"Our research includes in silico identification of gut bacteria utilizing dietary fibers (e.g. alginate, resistant starch, plant cell wall polysaccharides) and discovery, production as well as as characterization of structure function relationships of the involved bacterial enzymes. We are also interested in microbial consortia from various environments."

| Birte Svensson, DTU Bioengineering

"In a circular economy era, biomass and waste processing technologies for sustainable production of chemicals and fuels are of high importance. Processes are developed and tested initially at laboratory scale and then at pilot scale. Our research work is performed in: Reactor fermentations, Anaerobic digestion, Industrial and municipal wastewater valorization, Waste plastic depolymerization and monomers purification, Equipment design for pre-treatment of biomass, Upstream and downstream processing of biomass effluents, Up-scaling of biotechnological processes, Mathematical simulation of bioprocesses."

| Ioannis Skiadas, DTU Chemical Engineering

"My main focus is research in global epidemiology, surveillance, antimicrobial resistance, and population structure of mainly food and waterborne pathogens. Our work includes the development and implementation of methods and guidelines that can support efforts to build the capacity of the global monitoring of antimicrobial resistance and increase the quality of monitoring data. Our group has a special focus on developing and implementing ring tests to validate pheno- and genotypic antimicrobial resistance data."

| Rene Hendriksen, DTU Food

"The overarching theme, or question, my research addresses is how microbes act and interact in their environment, and how we can investigate and utilize their behavior by analyzing the molecules they comprise and produce."

| Mikkel Bentzon-Tilia, DTU Bioengineering

"The purpose of my research within Biorefinery Conversions is to create new knowledge for development of innovative and cost-efficient processes for production of fuels, chemicals and materials from biomasses, industrial effluents and industrial off-gases including carbon dioxide. Valorization of renewable resources, i.e. residual biomasses, as well as undesirable by-products of industrial activities such as liquid and solid effluents, carbon monoxide and carbon dioxide, as feedstocks for production of valuable organic molecules can greatly contribute to sustainable societies and limit greenhouse gases emissions."

| Hariklia Gavala, DTU Chemical Engineering

"We are providing access to laboratory facilities, including GMO, MultiLab and Chemistry, manned with skilled technicians for supporting student and research startups within the 'wet'-areas at DTU."

| Kristine Garde, DTU Skylab

"I am developing biosensors to detect pathogens in food, environmental and clinical samples."

| Yi Sun, DTU Health Technology

"We are interested in signaling and regulation in bacterial cells, focusing in particular on regulatory phenomena based on protein phosphorylation. Most of our research activities are carried out on Bacillus subtilis. Our laboratory specializes in bacterial protein-tyrosine kinases (BY-kinases), serine/threonine kinases of the Hanks-family, phosphoproteomics other “omics” approaches aiming at global studies of the phosphorylation-based regulatory networks in both model and pathogenic bacteria."

| Ivan Mijakovic, DTU Biosustain

"My research is related to microbes and evaluating secondary metabolites in an evolutionary perspective. Application of machine learning in exploring in-situ NMR based metabolomics in microbial systems. I collaborate with several research groups both at DTU Bioengineering and DTU Biosustainability on NMR based structure elucidation of unknown secondary metabolites from bacteria, fungi, marine and plant species."

| Charlotte Held Gotfredsen, DTU Chemistry