Sarah D‘Adamo

Associate Professor, Wageningen University and Research The Netherlands

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BIOGRAPHY

Sarah D’Adamo holds a MSc. in industrial biotechnology and PhD in biochemistry and biophysics, obtained at the University of Study of Padova, Italy. Since 2018, she started her a tenure-track and she is Associate Professor in microalgal cell factory design at the Bioprocess Engineering group of Wageningen University, The Netherlands. She worked as post-doctoral fellow and research associate at Colorado School of Mines (USA), following projects on redox and hydrogen metabolism of green microalgae. She has been senior scientist and lead scientist at Algenuity, an UK microalgal biotech start-up company. Overall, she has >15 years’ of both academic and industrial experience in the field of microalgae physiology, strain engineering and biotechnology, conducted in Italy, USA, UK and, NL. Expertise includes analytical chemistry, biochemistry, molecular biology, biophysics, redox reactions, photosynthesis, metabolic engineering, bioprocesses.

ORGANIZATION PROFILE

Wageningen University and Research (WUR) is a collaboration of Wageningen University and specialized research institutes of the Wageningen Research foundation, which have joined forces `to explore the potential of nature to improve the quality of life´. The Bioprocess Engineering division (BPE) of WUR is performing research on the development of novel biotechnological processes for production of bio-based chemicals, biofuels, food additives, feed and pharmaceuticals. WUR-BPE’s challenge is to produce high quality biobased products in a sustainable and economical way. WUR-BPE has over 15 years’ experience with the cultivation of algae and has a solid scientific basis in the expertise of bioreactor design, medium optimization, strain improvement, scale-up, biorefinery and LCA’s in this area of application. 25 PhD students, 2 professors, 2 assistant professors and 2 PostDocs from our staff are working in microalgae field. We collaborate already with over 40 companies and we coordinate large public private partnership programs (AlgaePARC pilot facilities, AlgaePARC Biorefinery and 3 EU research programs).