Dr. Leonidas Matsakas

Dr. Matsakas is currently a Senior Lecturer in Biochemical Process Engineering at the Luleå University of Technology (Sweden). He received his Ph.D. in Industrial Biotechnology from the School of Chemical Engineering at the National Technical University of Athens (Greece) in 2015. His main research activities focus on the development of methods for the pretreatment and fractionation of lignocellulosic and aquatic biomass and the subsequent conversion of the cellulose, hemicellulose, and lignin streams to biofuels, bio-based chemicals, and bio-materials through biochemical and (thermo)chemical methods. He is also actively working on the development of mixotrophic and heterotrophic microalgae biorefinery processes for the production of high-added-value compounds, such as omega-3 PUFAs, pigments, and proteins.