Krist Gernaey

Professor at Technical University of Denmark

Speaker

Professor in industrial fermentation technology at the Department of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering at the Technical University of Denmark (DTU) since 2013. Head of the Process and Systems Engineering Center (PROSYS) since 2014. Chairman of the board of Helix Lab Kalundborg. Co-founder of Bioscavenge ApS, a startup with focus on resource recovery on industrial process streams.

Krist V. Gernaey has an MSc (1993) and PhD (1997) degree from Ghent University (Belgium). He has occupied postdoc positions (1998-2005) at Ghent University, École Polytechnique de Montréal (Quebec, Canada), DTU and Lund University (Sweden). Associate professor at DTU Chemical Engineering from 2005 to 2012.

The focus of his research work is the modeling, monitoring, development and optimisation of industrial fermentation, pharmaceutical and resource recovery processes.

Co-author of 344 papers (Web of Science), H-Index = 55.