Prof. dr Maria Barbosa is Professor in Bioprocess Engineering and is Director of AlgaePARC (www.AlgaePARC.com) at Wageningen University and Research Centre, the Netherlands. She has served as president of the Dutch Biotechnology Association (NBV) and is a member of the steering group of the European Algae Biomass Association (EABA). She holds a Ph.D. in Bioprocess Engineering obtained at Wageningen University. She has worked at ETH (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology), Switzerland, IBET (Institute of Experimental Biology and Technology), Portugal and at EMBO (European Molecular Biology Organisation), Germany.
She presently leads the group on microalgal biotechnology and coordinates several large research programs covering the entire microalgae production chain
Her scientific interests are in microalgae strain improvement, process design and scale-up.
