Scaling of Algae Cultures, Plant Engineering, Bioprocess Engineering – we are the idel partner for you#!
Prof. Dr. Timo Gehring has 12 years of experience in the chemical and pharmaceutical industry, including 8 years as production manager at a pharmaceutical company. His core expertise lies in the development, transfer, scaling, and implementation of chemical, pharmaceutical, and biotechnological processes to ensure they are suitable for industrial use.
As part of the CLUB research group at htw saar, he has been active since 2023 as a professor of bio- and environmental process engineering in the field of algae technology and its scaling. He developed the scalable Floating Light Ball Reactor (FLBR) for algae cultivation using artificial lighting in any type of container (https://doi.org/10.1055/a-2727-
4980).
Timo Gehring leads the international Interreg project “ALGAE-BOOST – from algae to market-ready capsules” (2025–2028, total budget €3 million)
Algae technology, scale-up, soft sensor development
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