Diethard Mattanovich is Full Professor of Microbial Strain Design at the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences Vienna (BOKU) and Director of the Research Area “Microbial Parts and Systems” at the Austrian Centre of Industrial Biotechnology (acib). His main research interest is on yeast biotechnology, with a focus on genetics and metabolism of methylotrophic yeasts. In this field he has published more than 200 papers, 10 book chapters, and 28 patents. Diethard Mattanovich is Chair of the International Commission on Yeasts (ICY) and of the Microbial Biotechnology Division of the European Federation of Biotechnology (EFB).

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