Lars Mathias Blank
researcher
Lars Mathias Blank, (born 27 November 1969 in Hilden, Germany) is a German engineer, biologist, and professor at RWTH Aachen University, and head of its Institute of Applied Microbiology.
Career
Blank studied Chemical Engineering from 1990 to 1997 at the TU Dortmund University and Biology from 1992 to 1997 at the Ruhr University of Bochum (Germany). For his master's, he worked in Metabolic Engineering in the group of E. T. Papoutsakis at Northwestern University in Illinois, USA, and in yeast cell biology in the group of Prof. W.-H. Kunau at Ruhr University Bochum. For his Ph.D., he worked for Prof. L. K. Nielsen at the Biotech Centre of the University of Queensland, Australia (1998 to 2002), where he developed a continuous process for hyaluronic acid production using lactic acid bacteria. During his Ph.D., he worked as a visiting scientist at the Technical University of Denmark (DTU) in Lyngby, Denmark, from September to December 1999. From November 2004 until June 2011, Blank led the group 'Systems Biotechnology' at the Laboratory of Chemical Biotechnology of
Prof. A. Schmid at the TU Dortmund University and was a senior research fellow at the Leibniz Institute of Analytical Sciences (ISAS) in Dortmund. In January 2010, he finalized his Habilitation.
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