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Prof. (emeritus) dr. at Delft University of Technology
Sef has 15 years of industrial experience in fermentation of which 4 years were at production plants. He was a full professor and group leader Cell Systems Engineering at the Department of Biotechnology, TU Delft. He taught courses at BSc. and MSc. level, published more than 600 articles in high level scientific journals and coached more than 60 PhD students.
He contributed extensively to the original Industrial Biotechnology MOOC that was developed in 2014.
He holds more than 10 patents for new biotechnological processes (5 of those have reached commercial application and his experience covers a wide range of industrial relevant microbial systems: Penicillium chrysogenum, Saccharomyces cerevisiae, Escherichia coli, biological phosphorus removal, nitrification, denitrification, methane, sulphur and iron bacteria, animal cells and Streptomyces lividans. He is member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW) and he was knighted in the Order of the Dutch Lion.