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Associate Prof. DI Dr.techn. Matthias Steiger has been assigned to the Institute of Chemical, Environmental and Bioscience Engineering, opens an external URL in a new window (E166) at the Faculty of Technical Chemistry, opens an external URL in a new window at TU Wien since 1.5.2023 as Associate Professor for Biochemistry.

Matthias Steiger comes from Vienna and studied technical chemistry at the TU Wien. In 2010 he received his doctorate there with a dissertation on the topic "Introduction of an N-acetylneuraminic acid synthesis pathway in Hypocrea (Trichoderma), opens an external URL in a new window". He then did research as a postdoc at the Austrian Center of Industrial Biotechnology (acib), at the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences and at the University of Leiden (Netherlands). In 2019 he successfully applied for a career in biochemistry at the TU Wien, which he has now completed with the qualification to associate professor. In 2020 he also obtained the Venia Docendi for the subject Biochemistry with a habilitation thesis on "Bridging biochemical boundaries: the impact of transport and compartmentalization on metabolic engineering endeavors, opens an external URL in a new window".

The scientific home of Matthias Steiger is the Research Unit of Biochemical Technology, opens an external URL in a new window, where he heads a research group (E166-05-2) on the subject of biochemistry. There he works on the production of biochemicals such as organic acids, proteins and other biomass components with the help of improved microorganisms (filamentous fungi and yeasts).

Publications by Matthias Steiger in the Scopus, opens an external URL in a new window database and in ReposiTUm, opens an external URL in a new window.