Malynda Cappelle from the University of Texas at El Paso will visit our faculty. We would like to invite you to join us at one or both of the talks she will be giving. In the morning she will share with us her experience in starting up a company and the hardness sensor she is developing. In the afternoon she will give an overview of her research regarding high efficiency and recovery desalination during the Seminar Industrial Water Production and Treatment.

To subscribe to either or both talks, please visit click here.
Please note that for the afternoon lecture, a fee applies for external parties.
For more information, contact Dr. Marjolein.Vanoppen@ugent.be

• Single-cell optical fingerprinting for microbial community characterization [download] (Benjamin Buysschaert, promoter Nico Boon, Bart De Gusseme)
• Towards innovative technologies for nutrient recovery from human urine [download] (Sebastiaan Derese, promoter Arne Verliefde)
• Surrogate-based online monitoring and control framework for trace organic contaminant removal during ozonation of secondary wastewater effluent: from lab-scale to practical application [download] (Michael Chys, promoter Stijn Van Hulle, Kristof Demeestere, Ingmar Nopens)
• Impact of speciation on the removal and recovery of trace elements from aqueous streams, [download] (Karel Folens, promoter Gijs Du Laing and Frank Vanhaecke)
• The interaction of bacteria with volcanic rocks on Earth and in space [download] (Bo Byloos, promoter Nico Boon, Natalie Leys and Rob Van Houdt)
• Innovative strategies to maximize carbon and energy recovery from domestic wastewater, [download] (Cristina Cagnetta, promoter Korneel Rabaey and Arne Verliefde)
• Production of lactic acid and derivatives from grass using mixed populations, [download] (Way Cern Khor, promoter Korneel Rabaey and Han Vervaeren)
• Advanced reduction and adsorption for trace organic contaminant removal from water, [download] (Klaas Schoutteten, promoter Arne Verliefde)

You are kindly invited to the seminar given by Robbert Kleerebezem, assistant professor from TUDelft. Robbert has years of experience in biotechnology and he is going to share his opinion in the molecular techniques that are used in understanding bioprocesses.

“Using basic redox chemistry, thermodynamics, mass balances, simple kinetic expressions, and fundamental transport terms, the essence of the functional behaviour of microbial ecosystems can be captured and analyzed. I try to convey this approach from an engineering perspective and an ecological perspective. Thermodynamic state analysis of microbial ecosystems provides a firm foundation and first generalization of microbial processes and is often overlooked. “

• Introduction to the new engineering investment at the Science and Technology faculty at Aarhus University, and establishment of the cross disciplinary centres WATEC (water technology) and CBIO (Circular Bioeconomy). (Lars DM Ottosen)

• Centre for water technology (WATEC) research and short announcement of open positions. (Niels Peter Revsbech)

• Ambitions and research for the new sensor technology laboratory under WATEC. (Klaus Koren)

• Ambitions for waste water technology under WATEC and CBIO. (Lars DM Ottosen)

Lars DM Ottosen is Head of the Biological and Chemical Engineering at Aarhus University. Lars has a mixed industry and academia background. His research area is in environmental biotechnology, i.e. anaerobic digestion and biological waste water treatment.

Niels Peter Revsbech is professor at department of Bioscience, and head of the WATEC centre. Niels Peter is the pioneer of development and application of microsensors in microbial ecology, and co-founder of Unisense A/S.

Klaus Koren is head of the new sensor development laboratory under WATEC, and assistant professor at Bioscience. Klaus Koren has extended experience in optical sensor development and application from positions at Copenhagen University and University Graz, Austria.