Research

We study, engineer, and use microbes, microbial communities, and molecules that microbes produce, to address global sustainability challenges. Meeting a growing population’s needs for chemicals, polymers, materials, energy and food, requires creating new bio-based industries and changing old industries’ petroleum-dependent technologies that pollute the environment and drive global warming.

We do this by engineering new cell factories for alternative production of various products helping upgrade the biosolutions industrial sector’s technological capabilities (SDG targets 9.5 and 9.4, 24% of our projects), enabling the transition to a sustainable innovative industry. We also create new biosolutions using repurposed or industrial by-products as raw material, as well as find substitutes for petrochemicals (SDG target 12.2 and 12.5, 18% of our projects), helping the world towards responsible consumption and production. Lastly, we contribute to building more sustainable cities and communities, by engineering microorganism or process that produces less waste or use waste as raw materials (SDG target 11.6, 14% of our projects)

To reach our aim, people is our biggest asset. Under Education you can read about our work fostering the next generation of biotechnology talent who are going to shape a greener future.

DTU Biosustain has published more than 1800 publications. Please see Publications for a full list.