Year: 2023

From 30 November to 1 December 2023, the project partners of the EU project SolBio-Rev met at the Chair of Energy Process Engineering in Nuremberg to present the current progress of the project. They also visited the pilot plant in Erlangen, which will start test operation in the coming weeks. Th...

On all five Thursdays in November, FAU scientists from very different disciplines provide insights into their research work. On the third Thursday, Prof. Katharina Herkendell represents the Faculty of Engineering with the following lecture topic: Bioelectrochemistry - Opportunities for sustainable e...

On November 7th, Prof. Herkendell co-hosts the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering at the official reception at the Annual Meeting of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE). The conference is the premier educational forum for chemical engineers interested in innovation an...

Get to know the basics and current trends in renewable bioenergy systems with Prof. Katharina Herkendell on the 2nd November from 6:30pm. Her research focuses on how enzymes and microorganisms can be used as a catalyst and a system for decentralized energy storage. Further information here.

The women of the International Society of Microbial Electrochemistry and Technology (WISMET) is a networking and mentoring collective to support female researchers in microbial electrochemistry and electromicrobiology. Within the WISMET seminar series, Prof. Herkendell was invited to present her ...

Prof. Katharina Herkendell received the FAU Teaching Prize for the Faculty of Engineering at the FAU Awards Ceremony on October 24th. Since 2016, FAU has been awarding the university-wide FAU Teaching Prize, with which the university annually honors young researchers for exceptional commitment and e...

We opened our doors and, as always, had a lot of fun showing off our facilities and research projects. Interested visitors were able to find out about a wide range of energy process engineering and renewable energies. Prof. Katharina Herkendell was there live on BR at the opening.

The "244th ECS Meeting" took place in Gothenburg, Sweden, from October 8 to 12, 2023.  In the division "K01 - Advances in Organic and Biological Electrochemistry," EVT-PhD candidate Federica Torrigino presented an oral talk titled "Investigating Enzyme-Based Electrode Processes Using Electrochemical...

On October 2nd 2023, a networking cluster event for coordinators of Horizon Europe projects in the area of biomethane and biofuels was held in Brussels at the European Climate, Infrastructure and Environment Executive Agency (CINEA). As the coordinator of the CarbonNeutralLNG project, the Chair of E...