Prof. Dr.-Ing. Katrin Ochsenreither is a Professor of Pharmaceutical Biotechnology at the Kaiserslautern University of Applied Sciences. She completed her PhD studies in Fungal Biotechnology at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology and has been awarded a PostDoc Scholarship from the State of Baden-Württemberg. She continuously wins and leads projects related to Bioeconomy, Fungal Biotechnology and Enzyme Technology. She has published >80 papers in various journals, and is an Editorial Advisory Board Member of the journal "Bioprocess and Biosystems Engineering". Her teaching disciplines include biochemistry and molecular biology, pharmaceutical biology and biotechnology, and her interests include development and optimization of microbial and enzymatic processes, oleaginous yeasts, filamentous fungi, organic acids, and enzymatic glycolipid synthesis.