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Associate Prof. Dipl.-Ing. Dr.techn. Astrid Mach-Aigner has been assigned to the Institute of Chemical, Environmental and Bioscience Engineering, opens an external URL in a new window (E166) of the Faculty of Technical Chemistry, opens an external URL in a new window at TU Wien since December 1st, 2021 as Associate Professor for Synthetic Biology.

Astrid Mach-Aigner (formerly Stricker) comes from Scheibbs (Lower Austria) and studied technical chemistry at the TU Wien, where she wrote her dissertation “Investigations on key players in the xyn1 and xyn2 (xylanase I and II encoding) transcriptosome of Hypocrea jecorina (Trichoderma reesei”, opens an external URL in a new window. Then she worked at Boehringer Ingelheim and was also able to gain international experience during a postdoc stay at Wageningen University (Netherlands). In 2011 she returned to the TU Wien, where in 2015 she obtained the Venia docendi for the subject of Synthetic Biology with the habilitation thesis “Usage of Trichoderma reesei as an expression platform”, opens an external URL in a new window. In 2019 she was also able to secure a career in the field of "synthetic biology", which she has now successfully completed as an associate professor.

Astrid Mach-Aigner's scientific home is the research group for "Synthetic Biology and Molecular Biotechnology, opens an external URL in a new window" at the Institute of Chemical, Environmental and Bioscience Engineering, of which she is also the head.

Publications by Astrid Mach-Aigner in ReposiTUm, opens an external URL in a new window