Francesc Xavier Prenafeta Boldu

My academic background is in Environmental Biotechnology and Engineering, Microbial Ecology, and Agricultural Sciences, and I am interested to solve biologically-related environmental problems. I work at the interface between fundamental and applied sciences, in order to find new engineering applications that tackle real world concerns. My research focuses on bacteria and fungi from extreme environments that convert toxic contaminants into harmless -and even valuable- products. The methodological approach is based on the interdisciplinary study of the ecophysiology and metabolism of specific microbes in the laboratory, as well as complex microbial community dynamics in both the open environment and at bioreactor full-scale.