CV
Professional career
Since 07/2020 Academic Councilor at the Chair of Bioprocess Engineering, Faculty of Bio- and Chemical Engineering, TU Dortmund University, Dortmund, Germany
02/2019 - 06/2020 Senior Postdoc at the Flemish Institute of Biotechnology (VIB), Center for Microbiology, Leuven, Belgium
02/2017 - 01/2019 Project Manager, Global Yeast Leuven, Belgium
04/2013 - 01/2017 Postdoc at the Department of Molecular Systems Biology, University of Groningen, The Netherlands
PhD
03/2009 - 06/2013 PhD student (major in Biology) at KU Leuven, Faculty of Science, Laboratory Molecular Cell Biology & VIB 10 Department of Molecular Microbiology (Prof. Dr. Thevelein, Belgium) with the topic: application of novel metabolic engineering tools for engineering of the complex trait of glycerol yield in Saccharomyces cerevisiae.
Study
09/2017 - 07/2019 Master in Statistics, KU Leuven, Faculty of Science, Belgium.
10/2007 - 06/2008 Research stay for thesis at Laboratoire d'Ingénierie des Systèmes et des Procédés Biologiques (LISBP at INSA Toulouse), France.
01/2002 - 12/2008 Studies of Biotechnology, Technical University of Berlin, Faculty III Process Sciences, Berlin
Scholarships
2009 - 2010 Scholarship of the German Research Foundation (DFG) for the preparation of the PhD thesis
2007 - 2008 Scholarship of the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) for the preparation of the diploma thesis.
Selected publications:
Monteiro, F. et al. Measuring glycolytic flux in single yeast cells with an orthogonal synthetic biosensor. Mol. Syst. Biol. (2019) doi:10.15252/msb.20199071
Litsios, A. et al. Differential scaling between G1 protein production and cell size dynamics promotes commitment to the cell division cycle in budding yeast. Nat. Cell Biol. (2019) doi:10.1038/s41556-019-0413-3.
Leupold, S. et al. Saccharomyces cerevisiae goes through distinct metabolic phases during its replicative lifespan. Elife (2019) doi:10.7554/elife.41046
Hubmann, G. et al. Quantitative trait analysis of yeast biodiversity yields novel gene tools for metabolic engineering. Metab. Eng. (2013) doi:10.1016/j.ymben.2013.02.006
Swinnen, S. et al. Identification of novel causative genes determining the complex trait of high ethanol tolerance in yeast using pooled-segregant whole-genome sequence analysis. Genome Res. (2012) doi:10.1101/gr.131698.111
Hubmann, G., Guillouet, S. & Nevoigt, E. Gpd1 and Gpd2 fine-tuning for sustainable reduction of glycerol formation in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. (2011) doi:10.1128/aem.05338-11
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