Prof. Dr. Volker F. Wendisch holds the Chair of Genetics of Prokaryotes at the Faculty of Biology at Bielefeld University, Germany. He serves as deputy scientific director of its Center for Biotechnology CeBiTec and is member of the board of CLIB2021, an international open innovation cluster of stakeholders active in biotechnology and bioeconomy from academic institutes and universities, investors, SMEs, and industry based in Düsseldorf, Germany.
Volker F. Wendisch received his diploma in biology from Cologne University, Germany. After having completed his PhD at the Institute of Biotechnology 1 of the Research Center Jülich in 1997, Volker F. Wendisch worked as postdoctoral researcher at the University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA. From 2006-2009 he was Professor for Metabolic Engineering at Münster University. Prof. Wendisch’s research interests concern genome-based metabolic engineering of industrially relevant microorganisms, systems and synthetic microbiology.