After 10 years of teaching and research at the Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Professor Nicolas Plumeré has been appointed to the Campus for Biotechnology and Sustainability at the Technical University of Munich (TUM). Prof. Plumeré thus takes over the newly established professorship for Electrobiotechnology and thereby represents the link between classical electrochemistry and modern biotechnological systems at TUMCS.
Prof. Plumeré and his Team, 2019
The Luigi Galvani Award winner focuses his research on making enzymes industrially usable as sustainable catalysts and sensors. These machines, perfected by nature over millions of years, show outstanding activity and precision and thus form the basis of all complex chemical processes in biological systems. However, at the same time they show instability if taken out of their natural environment. With his ERC grant, Prof. Plumeré set himself the goal of embedding these outstanding catalysts on an electrode in a protective matrix in order to simultaneously overcome the instability and make them usable on a large scale.
We look forward to a fascinating and successful time at TUM.