Brigitte Gasser

Career

• 2023 Lead of Area "Sustainable Production", Austrian Centre of Industrial Biotechnology (acib)
• 2019 Group Leader "Yeast Molecular Biotechnology"
• 2017 Associate Professor for Microbial Systems Biotechnology
• 2017 Head of CD-Laboratory for growth decoupled protein production in yeast
• 2015 Co-working group leader Microbial Biotechnology
• 2013 Venia Docendi in Molecular Biotechnology
• 2011 Key Researcher Austrian Centre of Industrial Biotechnology
• 2009 Senior Scientist - Department of Biotechnology
• 2007 PhD degree (University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences Vienna)
• 2005 Research Visit at VTT Biotechnology, Espoo, Finland
• 2004 Scientist at the Department of Biotechnology
• 2003 Masters degree in Food Science and Biotechnology (University of Natural Resources and Applied Life Sciences Vienna)
• 2001 - 2002 University of Reading, UK within the SOCRATES Erasmus programme

Awards

• Year: 2022 Awards: FEMS Yeast Research - Best article of 2021 award
• Year: 2019 Awards: Award for BOKU Innovation of the Year for „Carbon dioxide fixation with Pichia pastoris“ (together with co-inventors)
• Year: 2019 Awards: BOKU Innovator of the Year
• Year: 2019 Awards: Special Award at "S&B Awards" of the Rudolf Sallinger Funds for the CarboFeed project team
• Year: 2015 Awards: Kardinal Innitzer Förderungspreis
• Year: 2013 Awards: Professor Anton Kurir Foundation Award
• Year: 2012 Awards: Science2Business Award (ACIB Projekt Pichia Cell Factory)
• Year: 2011 Awards: Dr. Wolfgang Houska Award, B&C Private Foundation (2. Platz; together with colleagues)
• Year: 2010 Awards: Poster Award - Conference on Physiology of Yeast and Filamentous Fungi PYFF4
• Year: 2008 Awards: Poster Award - Conference on Recombinant Protein Production RPP5 (together with colleagues)
• Year: 2007 Awards: Dissertationspreis der Österreichischen Gesellschaft für Biotechnologie (ÖGBT)
• Year: 2007 Awards: Nominierung für den Austrian Life Science Award (ALSA07, 2. Preis)