Prof. (FH) PD DI Dr. Maximilian Lackner MBA is technical chemist and process engineer. He has been lecturer at Vienna University of Technology (VUT) since 2005, at JKU (Linz, Austria) since 2014 and at the University of Applied Sciences Technikum Wien since 2015, where he is leading 2 study programmes, with additional teaching assignments at Arcada University of Applied Sciences (Finland), Junia University of Applied Sciences (France), Xidian University (China) and Comenius University (Slovakia). He studied Technical Chemistry at VUT, where he also earned his PhD degree and completed his habilitation in chemical engineering. He obtained a Global Executive MBA from LIMAK University in Linz, Austria.
Between 2004 and 2011 Dr. Lackner has held several senior positions in the petrochemical industry in Europe and Asia. He has founded five companies. His expertise spans process engineering, chemical engineering, gas fermentation technology, climate change mitigation, materials science, proteins for feed/food, with his main research interests being bioplastics (polyhydroxyalkanoates, PHA) and bacterial single cell protein (SCP). At CIRCE Biotechnologie, he is responsible for R&D as CTO.
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