Prof. Dr. Michael Hans-Peter Studer

Profile

Prof. Dr. Michael Hans-Peter Studer Dozent Agrar-, Forst- & Energietechnik

  • Contact hours Monday morning
    Tuesday
    Wednesday morning
    Thursday
    Friday
  • Address Berner Fachhochschule
    School of Agricultural, Forest and Food Sciences HAFL
    Fachbereich Agronomie
    Länggasse 85
    3052 Zollikofen

Activities

  • Research group leader 'Laboratory for bioenergy and biochemicals'

  • Professor for renewable raw materials and energy sources

  • Developing technologies for converting inedible biomass such as waste wood, farmyard manure, slurry and maize straw into high-quality chemicals and fuels

Teaching

  • BA Agronomie

  • BLAx522 Material and energetic use of biomass

  • BLAx342 Renewable energies

  • BLAx952 Biogas

  • BUUt032 Novel technologies - energy technology

  • Use of renewable energy and raw material sources (from 2022)

Research

  • Consolidated Bioprocessing

  • Microbial consortia

  • Pretreatment of lignocellulosic biomass

  • Developing technologies for converting inedible biomass such as waste wood, farmyard manure, slurry and maize straw into high-quality chemicals and fuels

CV

  • 08.2012 - today Professor of renewable raw materials and energies BFH-HAFL, Switzerland
  • 08.2009 - 07.2012 Prinicipal investigator SNF Ambizione fellowship project ETHZ, Switzerland
  • 10.2006 - 04.2009 Post-Doctoral scholar, group prof. Dr. C.E. Wyman University of Califormia, Riverside
  • 09.2005 - 05.2006 Post-Doctoral scholar, group of Pfor. Dr. Ph. Rudolf von Rohr ETHZ, Switzerland
  • 04.2001 - 09.2005 Dr. sc. techn. ETHZ, group of Prof. Dr. Ph. Rudolf von Rohr ETHZ, Switzerland
  • 10.1997 - 04.2000 Dipl. Process-engineer ETHZ ETHZ, Switzerland
  • 10.1995 - 10.1997 Basic studies mechanical engineering EPFL, Switzerland

Projects

  • SNF-Sinergia Verbundprojekt "Optimizing lipid production and in-situ extraction in biofilm immobilized microalgae"

Publications

Memberships

  • Member of the library commission

Awards

Supervised theses

  • Robert L. Shahab PhD: Labor division in engineered cross-kingdom consortia: Consolidated bioprocessing of lignocellulosic biomass to carboxylic acids 2019

  • David B. Dempfle PhD: Model-based scale-up of a continuously operated consolidated bioprocess based on a microbial consortium for the production of ethanol 2021

Language skills and intercultural knowledge

  • German - Native or bilingual proficiency
  • English - Full professional proficiency
  • French - Professional working proficiency