Dirk Benndorf

Dirk Benndorf is a Team Leader at the Department of Bioprocess Engineering, Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg, associated with the Max Planck Institute for Dynamics of Complex Technical Systems.

His research spans:

• Metaproteomics of microbial communities in biogas plants and wastewater treatment facilities
• Synthetic biology approaches for nucleotide sugar and oligosaccharide production
• Mathematical modeling of biogas process dynamics
• Virology, focusing on influenza virus replication and defective interfering particles (DIPs)
• Development of the MetaProteomAnalyzer software for metaproteome analysis

He contributes to the Biosystems Engineering degree program, offering advanced lectures on cell culture engineering, OMICS technologies, and virology.