Alumni

First cycle students’ degree projects

·       Bachelor’s degree project in Biotechnology at KTH (2018), Leo Dhal, David Jonsson, Nicklas Prag and Nell Perland. “Production of bioactive compounds from mushroom farming by-products” (15 credits).

·       Bachelor’s degree project in Biotechnology at KTH (2019), Anna Karlsson, Oskar Westöö, Tobias Karlsson and Johanna Pechan. “Valorization of Spent Coffee Grounds in a Biorefinery Concept” (15 credits).

·       Bachelor student in Erasmus exchange, Laetitia Morales, Paul Sabatier University, Toulouse 3, France (2019). “Valorization mushroom by-products for a Biorefinery concept” (15 credits).

·       Bachelor’s degree project in Biotechnology at KTH (2022), Sara Delestig, Viktor Sahlberg, Patricia Salén, Marjorie Sanchez Ortiz, Simran Vadher. “Biorefinery approach for valorization of industrial waste textiles” (15 credits) in collaboration with ShareTex company. 

 

Second cycle students’ degree projects 

·       Miriam Weyers, master student Erasmus practice, Braunschweig Technical University, Germany (VT 2017). “Advanced analytical tools for carbohydrate in biorefinery”.

·       Doré Russell Binguima, master student Erasmus exchange, INSIACET, Toulouse, France (Summer 2019). “Hemicelluloses comparison for biorefinery concept” (30 credits).

·       Alvaro Collazos, master student Erasmus, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain, (Spring 2021). ‘‘Use of feruloyl esterases and xylanases for the valorization of feruloylated-arabinoxylans from wheat bran” (30 credits).

·       Wilhem Sundewall, master student Industrial and environmental biotechnology degree KTH (Spring 2021). “Production and characterization of oligosaccharides with potential use as food additives” (30 credits).

·       Dongming Zhang, master student Medical Biotechnology program, KTH (Spring 2021). “Study of arabinoxylans dietary fiber in bread and their further effect on microbial fermentation after in vitro digestion” (30 credits).

·       Tom Svesse, master student Medical Biotechnology program, KTH (Spring 2021). “Production, characterization, and purification of immune-stimulating oligosaccharides from fungal biomass” (30 credits, co-supervisor, main supervisor Lauren McKee).

·       Kasane Suzuki, exchange master student from Japan, University of Tokio (Autumn 2021). “Simultaneous production of chitin and gluco-saccharides from fungal biomass” (30 credits, co-supervisor, main supervisor Lauren McKee).

·       Maryam Nejati, master student Industrial and Environmental Biotechnology degree KTH (Spring 2022). “Producing and characterizing fungal based composites and absorbent materials from agri-food waste biomass.” (30 credits).

·       Christos Trocopoulos, master student Medical Biotechnology program, KTH (Spring 2022). “Biocatalytic modification of pentoses from biorefinery streams as novel antimicrobial molecules” (30 credits).

·       Miguel Angel Postigo, master student Industrial and Environmental biotechnology degree KTH (Autumn 2022). “Mycelium networks as an absorbent biomaterial” (30 credits).

·       Erica Mittig, master student Medical Biotechnology program, KTH (Spring 2023). “Immunomodulatory effect of the cell wall compounds from human fungal pathogens” (30 credits).

·       Maja Lundell, master student Industrial and Environmental biotechnology degree KTH (Spring 2023). “Food loss valorization for the production of active food packaging” (30 credits).

·       Sajesh Nithianandam, master student Industrial and Environmental biotechnology degree KTH (Spring 2023). “Oil-in-water emulsions stabilized in colloidal lignin gels” (30 credits). Acting as internal supervisor, external supervisor Assist. Prof. Mika Sipponen, Stockholm University.

 

Supervision at doctoral level (third cycle level)

·       Reskandi C. Rudjito (2017 – 2022). “Valorisation of cereal by-products: a biorefinery approach”, dissertation day 4th March 2022. Main supervisor: Assoc. Prof. Francisco Vilaplana. 

·       Secil Yilmaz-Turan (2017 – 2021). “Multifunctional carbohydrate-based soft materials from cereal by-products”, dissertation took placed on November 4th 2021. Main supervisor: Assoc. Prof. Francisco Vilaplana. 

·       Esther Rincón Rubio (2019), guest PhD student from the University of Cordoba, Spain. 

·       Raquel Requena Peris (2017), guest PhD student from University of Valencia, Spain. Main supervisor: Assoc. Prof. Francisco Vilaplana.