Head of the chair
Prof. Dr. Volker Sieber
Rector of the TUM Campus Straubing
Head of the Chair
Phone: +49 (0) 9421 187-300
Fax: +49 (0) 9421 187-310
Mail: sieber@tum.de
TUM Campus Straubing
Schulgasse 16
Germany, 94315 Straubing
Schulgasse 16, Room: 1.A04
Vita
Studies of chemistry and biochemistry at the University of Bayreuth and University of Delaware, USA, Master of Science Doctorate at the University of Bayreuth with Prof. Franz X. Schmid
- Development of an evolutionary method to increase the stability of proteins
Research Fellow at the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, USA, with Prof. Frances H. Arnold
- Optimization of industrially relevant enzymes
Various positions in the chemical industry
- Chemical and biotechnological conversion of biomass to chemical raw materials and biofuels
- Enzymatic and chemical modification of biopolymers
- Development and optimization of microorganisms and fermentation processes therefor
Field of work
Development and evaluation of chemical and biotechnological processes for material conversion of renewable raw materials for
- platform chemicals
- biofuels
- Fine and specialty chemicals
- Bioactive substances (pharmaceuticals, nutrition)
Methodological emphases
- molecular biology
- enzyme technology
- protein chemistry
- Organic Chemistry
- analytics
- fermentation