Maria Barbosa

Prof. dr Maria Barbosa is Professor in Bioprocess Engineering and is Director of AlgaePARC (www.AlgaePARC.com abre em uma nova guia/janela) at Wageningen University and Research Centre, the Netherlands. She has been president of the Dutch Biotechnology Association (NBV) and is a member of the European Algae Biomass Association (EABA) steering group. She holds a Ph.D. in Bioprocess Engineering obtained at Wageningen University. She has worked at ETH (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology), Switzerland, IBET, and at EMBO (European Molecular Biology Organisation), Germany.

Her scientific interests are in microalgae strain improvement, process design and scale-up.