IDEA Bio Manager / Senior Research Platform Fellow
Australian Institute for Bioengineering and Nanotechnology
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Available for supervision
Dr Axayacatl Gonzalez completed his bachelors in 2010 in Chemical Engineering /Biotechnology at the Interdisciplinary Unit for Biotechnology (UPIBI, IPN, Mexico). He obtained his Master’s degree in 2012, where he specialised in metabolic modelling and bioprocessing. In 2013, he moved to Australia where he completed his PhD studies at the Australian Institute for Bioengineering and Nanotechnology (AIBN) at The University of Queensland (UQ).
Dr Gonzalez has been involved in the ARC-Training Centre for Biopharmaceutical Innovation (ARCT-CBI, 2018), the Queensland Strain Factory (QSF, 2019), ARC Centre of Excellence in Synthetic Biology (COESB, 2021) and is currently the Facility Manager and Senior Bioprocess Engineer for the Integrated Design Environment for Advanced biomanufacturing (IDEA bio) at AIBN-UQ.
Complementary to his role at IDEA Bio, Dr Gonzalez research focuses on a) Development of bioprocess strategies to improve productivities. b) Identification of metabolic changes in bacterial strains associated with selective pressure. c) Design, construction and evaluation of synthetic genetic circuits in microbial hosts. d) Development of strategies to screen, isolate, characterise and propagate soil microorganism for agricultural practices.
Australian Institute for Bioengineering and Nanotechnology
Availability:
Available for supervision
Scaling-up fermentation processes is not straightforward due to the emergence of concentration gradients at scale. For gas fermentation processes, with CO2, CO and CH4 and H2, scaling is even more challenging as high mass transfer rates need to be obtained. In his work, Lars is developing a framework to reliably scale-up gas fermentation processes, considering both mass transfer and concentration gradients. We aim to employ mechanistic models, combined with wet-lab data, to develop relationships and fluid dynamic (CFD) models to estimate the fermentation performance at industrial scale. He specialised in topics like bioreactor and bioprocess design, bioprocess scale-up/scale-down, mass transfer and transport phenomena, metabolic and kinetic modelling and simulation techniques.
