Alois Jungbauer PhD

Professor Alois Jungbauer received his Ph.D. in Food Technology and Biotechnology from BOKU. He serves as a professor at the Department of Biotechnology at BOKU. He teaches Protein Technology and Downstream Processing and Bioprocess Engineering and is study director of the Ph.D. program Bioprocess Engineering. He also acts as area head of Bioprocessing Engineering and Deputy Director of Research in the Austrian Centre of Industrial Biotechnology.

He is currently working in the field of bioprocess engineering of proteins, plasmids, and viruses. He has published 340 papers on recombinant protein production, bioseparation, and advanced materials for bioprocess engineering, 17 patents, and 12 book contributions, and recently a monograph entitled “Protein Chromatography, Process Development, and Scale-Up”. He is the executive editor of the Biotechnology Journal. He acts also as the vice president of research of the European Society of Biochemical Engineering Science.