Professor in industrial fermentation technology at the Department of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering at the Technical University of Denmark (DTU) since 2013. Head of the Process and Systems Engineering Center (PROSYS) since 2014. Co-founder and CEO of Bioscavenge ApS, a startup with focus on resource recovery on industrial process streams, from 2017 to 2021. Chairman of the board of Helix Lab Kalundborg since 2020.
Krist V. Gernaey has an MSc (1993) and PhD (1997) degree from Ghent University (Belgium). He has occupied postdoc positions (1998-2005) at Ghent University, École Polytechnique de Montréal (Quebec, Canada), DTU and Lund University (Sweden). Associate professor at DTU Chemical Engineering from 2005 to 2012.
The focus of his research work is the modeling, development and optimization of industrial fermentation, pharmaceutical and resource recovery processes.