Maria Grassino

Dr Maria Grassino is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Australian Centre for Water and Environmental Biotechnology (ACWEB), UQ.

Maria completed a BSc in Biology at the Autonomous University of Barcelona (Spain) and an MSc in Sustainable Biotechnology at Aalborg University (Denmark). She then joined UQ, where she completed a PhD investigating purple phototrophic bacteria for carotenoid production in high-value animal feed applications, funded by Meat & Livestock Australia through the Australian Government Department of Agriculture. Following her PhD, she worked on the enrichment of methanotrophic consortia for fertiliser production and methane mitigation, in collaboration with climate tech venture Windfall Bio at the Australian Institute for Bioengineering and Nanotechnology (AIBN).

Her current work centres on environmental biotechnology and focuses on the understanding of environmental microbial communities in anaerobic systems in the context of resource recovery and climate mitigation. She has published several peer-reviewed articles in leading international journals, including Biotechnology Advances, Water Research, and Bioresource Technology.