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Project Management Team

Professor Ben Hankamer

Project Leader

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Director, Solar Biofuels Consortium, (Eisenhower and DORA fellow)

Institute for Molecular Bioscience, The University of Queensland

Key Research Focus: Optimisation of microalgae production

Specialisation: Microbiology, molecular biology, structural biology and techno-economic modelling

Professor Dr Olaf Kruse

Chief Investigator

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Director, Solar Biofuels Consortium

CeBiTec – Centre for Biotechnology, Bielefeld University

Key Research Focus: Optimisation of microalgae production

Specialisation: Microbiology, molecular biology and metabolomics

Professor Dr Clemens Posten

Chief Investigator

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Director, Solar Biofuels Consortium

Institute of Process Engineering in Life Sciences: Bioprocess Engineering, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)

Member of board of directors at the Institute of Life Science Engineering

Key Research Focus: Process engineering in photobiotechnology

Specialisation: Reactor development, modelling and process control

Garry Henderson

Principal Process Engineer, Algae Development Manager

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Kellog Brown & Root (KBR)

Specialisation: Process engineering

Pauliina Uronen

Algae Research Project Manager

Kristin Devlin

Group Environmental, Health & Sustainability Manager

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Cement Australia

Dr Manfred Baldauf

Chemist & Engineering

Naomi Epstein

Project Manager

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Institute for Molecular Bioscience, The University of Queensland

Project Scientific Team

Dr Evan Stephens

Pilot Plant Manager

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Institute for Molecular Bioscience, The University of Queensland

Key Research Focus: Strain development, scale up and industry modelling 

Specialisation: Data analysis, biochemistry, biotechnology, science, lifesciences, genetics, biofuels, technology transfer, molecular biology and research

Dr Ian Ross

Senior Biologist

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Institute for Molecular Bioscience, The University of Queensland

Dr Anja Doebbe

Senior Biochemist

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Bielefeld University

Juliane Wolf

MSc Biotechnology, PhD Student

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Institute for Molecular Bioscience, The University of Queensland

Gisela Jakob

Dipl. Ing Environmental Engineering (FH), PhD Student

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Institute for Molecular Bioscience, The University of Queensland

Sven Steinbusch

PhD Student