My experience ranges from industrial biotechnology including Micro/ Molecular Biology, protein biochemistry and systems-based genomics methodologies to my scientific specialisation encompassing the isolation, cultivation, optimisation and genomic exploitation of eukaryotic (Microalgae, yeast, filamentous fungi) and prokaryotic (archaea and eubacteria) extremophiles. As part of teams that filed and registered multiple patents, I have successfully been a part of developing and delivering industrially enzymes and organisms for the food/ feed, chemical and biofuels industry respectively. I started my academic career working at the Institute of Technical Microbiology, Technical University Hamburg-Harburg. During my time there, I lead several teams of students and technical staff in research contributions to the Institute and began my development of teaching skills. Outside the responsibilities entrusted to me for research and student development, I also took on much of the coordination of international conferences and joint projects with industrial partners. Aftermy successful tenure at the University Hamburg-Harburg, I joined the newly established industrial Biotechnology unit of Süd-Chemie AG in Munich as a Research Scientist in their Microbiology group. The focus of Süd-Chemie’s biotechnology business is the development of turn-key solutions for second generation bioprocesses and biorefineries, which convert agricultural waste streams into an array of renewable platform chemica