Dr. Francisco Valero isfull professor of the Department of Chemical, Biological and Environmental Engineering at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. His research career has been focused on Biochemical Engineering, especially in the fields of Bioprocess Engineering, Production of Recombinant Proteins  in the cell factory Pichia pastoris, monitoring modelling and control of bioprocesses and Applied Biocatalysis (lipases). He has co-leaded the Bioprocess Engineering and Applied Biocatalysis ...

Associate Professor at Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB) (Barcelona, Spain)

Associate Professor at Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB)

Heleen De Wever obtained a PhD in Applied Biological Sciences in 1995. In 2001, she joined the Business Unit of Separation and Conversion Technology at VITO. She is currently leading VITO's biotechnology team which focusses on two main research lines. The first one is bioprocess intensification. Technological approaches include the combination of separation technology with bioconversions for high cell density fermentations, in-situ product recovery, enzyme immobilization and/or selective product ...