Byron Perez Simba

Research area

Byron is a Ph.D. researcher on the ‘Urban Microalgae-Based Protein Production’ project. He works on the integration of pulsed electric fields technology to boost the efficiency of microalgae production and downstream processing. His research focuses on the design of a biorefinery platform for the extraction and utilization of valuable single-cell microalgae products for more sustainable food applications.

Curriculum Vitae

Byron obtained his BSc in Food Engineering from Universidad San Francisco de Quito in Ecuador, his home country. He received the Excellence Scholarship and Opportunity Program from the ETH Foundation to pursue his MSc studies in Food Science with a focus on Food Processing at ETH Zurich. At the beginning of 2021, Byron joined the Sustainable Food Processing Laboratory as a research assistant. Subsequently, he developed his thesis on the application of nanosecond pulsed electric fields on heterotrophic microalgae in our group. In August 2022, Byron started as a Ph.D. student working on the Urban Microalgae Protein Production Project at our Singapore ETH Centre.

Additional information

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