mschmidt@lbl.gov
Education
Ph.D. in Synthetic Biology at RWTH Aachen University, Germany
M.S. in Molecular and Applied Biotechnology from RWTH Aachen University, Germany
B.S. in Chemistry and Biotechnology from Hochschule Niederrhein, Germany
Research
I am a postdoctoral researcher at the Keasling Lab focusing on engineering type I polyketide synthases for the production of specialty chemicals. Furthermore, I am interested in the optimization of metabolic fluxes in whole-cell biocatalysis and scale-up of bioprocesses.