Univ.Prof. Dipl.-Ing. Dr.nat.techn. Oliver Spadiut was appointed as University Professor for Integrated Bioprocess Development at TU Wien with effect from August 1, 2023. He is 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.

Oliver Spadiut comes from Vienna. He studied food and biotechnology at BOKU and received his doctorate there in 2008 with a dissertation on "Pyranose 2-oxidase: playground for enzyme evolution, opens an external URL in a new window". A subsequent postdoc stay took him to the KTH in Stockholm (Sweden). Back in Austria, he moved to the TU Wien as a university assistant and has been leading a research group on “Integrated Bioprocess Development” since 2015. In 2016, he was able to secure a career position on the topic of "Integrated Bioprocess Development", which he successfully completed in June 2018 by qualifying as an Associate Professor. In 2015 he also received the Venia Docendi for the subject "Biotechnology" with a habilitation on the subject of "Horseradish peroxidase - from genome to protein, opens an external URL in a new window". Oliver Spadiut has won many awards over the course of his scientific career and is co-founder of the start-up NOVOARC, opens an external URL in a new window (TUW News, opens an external URL in a new window). He is also an honorary professor, opens an external URL in a new window at the IMC FH Krems and has been leading the CD laboratory “Inclusion Body Processing 4.0”, opens an external URL in a new window since the beginning of 2023.

Oliver Spadiut's scientific home is the Research Unit of Biochemical Engineering, opens an external URL in a new window at the aforementioned institute, which he has headed since June 2022. There he is working on the development of microbial bioprocesses for the production of value-added products from red and white biotechnology. He is also working on reducing water consumption and CO2 emissions, as well as on the digitalization of these bioprocesses.

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