Prof. Maria Barbosa

Prof. Dr. Maria Barbosa is Professor in Bioprocess Engineering and is Director of AlgaePARC at Wageningen University and Research Centre, in the Netherlands. She has been president of the Dutch Biotechnology Association (NBV). She holds a Ph.D. in Bioprocess Engineering obtained at Wageningen University. She has worked at ETH (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology), Switzerland, IBET, and at EMBO (European Molecular Biology Organisation), Germany.
She presently leads the group on microalgal biotechnology and coordinates several large research programs covering the entire microalgae production chain and applications in the food and feed sectors.
Her scientific interests are in microalgae strain improvement, process development and scale-up.