Herwig Bachmann

The focus of my work since my PhD at Wageningen University has been on the behaviour of lactic acid bacteria in a dairy environment, which I investigate using molecular tools, -omics technologies and evolutionary engineering. I have developed protocols for high-throughput, in-product screening and for the selection of organisms with increased biomass yield. Currently I am also project leader at the Top Institute Food and Nutrition and I hold a part-time position as an assistant professor at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. There I work on microdroplet based technologies to increase the product yield in fermentation based processes. My background is instrumental in my current position at NIZO, where we try to help our customers to select or develop new strains or optimise their process conditions. I am fascinated by the technological developments in my field over the past decade (including high throughput screening, next generation sequencing and evolutionary engineering) and driven to translate this knowledge to improve industrial fermentation processes.
https://www.nizo.com/team/herwig-bachmann/
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8224-0993

Supervisor of the Doctoral Candidate 2's Project, the Doctoral Candidate 3's Project, and the Doctoral Candidate R's Project.