Patrick Fickers
University of Liège, Belgium
Biography
Patrick Fickers has completed a PhD in Biochemistry from University of Liège (Belgium). After a Post-doc at Polytech’Lille (France), he joined in 2005, the Centre of Protein Engineering (Liège, Belgium) as an FNRS Fellow. From 2009 until 2014, he was an Associated Professor at Université libre de Bruxelles and the Head of the Biotechnology and Bioprocess Unit. Since 2015, he is a Professor at Gembloux Agro BioTech, University of Liege, in the Microbial Processes. He has published more than 49 research papers in peer-reviewed journals, six book chapters and three patents. His researches focus on the development of yeast strains by metabolic engineering and on process development in bioreactor for the production of compounds of biotechnological interest.