Dr. Moritz Gold
Dr. Moritz Gold
Staff of Professorship for Sustainable Food Processing
Additional information
Research area
Today's food production has enormous negative impacts on the environment and does not provide nutritious food in sufficient quantities for all people. At the same time, agri-food production byproducts, food wastes and human wastes are frequently underutilized, and nutrients and energy wasted. This has dramatic consequences reflected in human diseases, environmental pollution and climate change.
The research of Dr. Moritz Gold focuses on scalable approaches to recycle biowaste into marketable products with the aim to (1) lower the environmental impact of food production by circulating resources within the agri-food system, (2) produce revenues to offset waste management costs and (3) provide waste management to protect public and environmental health. Most recently, he has researched the conversion of biowastes with insects to produce more sustainable feeds for monogastric animals. He is currently also a visiting researcher at the Singapore-ETH center.
Additional information
- Engineering for Development (E4D)
- Sandec Eawag: Black soldier fly processing website
Peer-reviewed publications
2022
Peguero, D. A., Gold, M., Vandeweyer, D., Zurbrügg, C., & Mathys, A. (2021). A review of pretreatment methods to improve agri-food waste bioconversion by black soldier fly larvae. Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems. Available here
Heuel, M., Sandrock, C., Leiber, F., Mathys, A., Gold, M., Zurbrügg, C., Gangnat, I.D., Kreuzer, M. and Terranova, M. (2022). Black soldier fly larvae meal and fat as a replacement for soybeans in organic broiler diets: Effects on performance, body N retention, carcass, and meat quality. British Poultry Science. Available here
Fuhrmann, A., Wilde, B., Conz, R. F., Gold, M., Konlambigue, M., Masengesho, B., ... & Hartmann, M. (2022). Residues from black soldier fly (Hermetia illucens) larvae rearing influence the plant-associated soil microbiome in the short term. Frontiers in microbiology, 3783. Available here
2021
Heuel, M., Kreuzer, M., Sandrock, C., Leiber, F., Mathys, A., Gold, M., Zurbrügg, C., Gangnat, I.D. and Terranova, M. (2021). Transfer of Lauric and Myristic Acid from Black Soldier Fly Larval Lipids to Egg Yolk Lipids of Hens Is Low. Lipids. Available here
Heuel, M., Sandrock, C., Leiber, F., Mathys, A., Gold, M., Zurbrügg, C., ... & Terranova, M. (2021). Black soldier fly larvae meal and fat can completely replace soybean cake and oil in diets for laying hens. Poultry Science, 100(4), 101034. Open access, available here
2020
Gold, M., von Allmen, F., Zurbrügg, C., Zhang, J., Mathys, A. (2020). Identification of bacteria in two food waste black soldier fly larvae rearing residues. Frontiers in Microbiology 11, 2897. Open access, available here
Gold, M., Binggeli, M., Kurt, F., De Wouters, T., Reichlin, M., Zurbrügg, C., Mathys, A., Kreuzer, M. (2020). Novel Experimental Methods for the Investigation of Hermetia illucens (Diptera: Stratiomyidae) Larvae. Journal of Insect Science, 20(3). Open access, available here
Gold, M., Egger, J., Scheidegger, A., Zurbrügg, C., Bruno, D., Bonelli, M., Tettamanti, G., Casartelli, M., Schmitt, E., Kerkaert, B., De Smet, J., Van Campenhout, L., Mathys, A. (2020). Estimating black soldier fly larvae biowaste conversion performance by simulation of midgut digestion. Waste Management, 112, 40–51. Open access, available here
Gold, M., Cassar, C. M., Zurbrügg, C., Kreuzer, M., Boulos, S., Diener, S., Mathys, A. (2020). Biowaste treatment with black soldier fly larvae: Increasing performance through the formulation of biowastes based on protein and carbohydrates. Waste Management, 102, 319-329. Open Access, available here
Sharma, K., Gold, M., Zurbrügg, C., Leal-Taixé, K., Wegner, J.D. (2020). HistoNet: Predicting size histograms of object instances, IEEE Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV), 3626-3634. Open access, available here
Bleuler, M., Gold, M., Strande, L., Schönborn, A. (2020). Pyrolysis of dry toilet substrate as a means of nutrient recycling in agricultural systems: potential risks and benefits. Waste and Biomass Valorization. Open access, available here
2019
Somroo, A., Rehman, K., Zheng, L., Cai, M., Xiao, X., Hu, S., Mathys, A., Gold, M., Yu, Z., Zhang, J. (2019). Influence of Lactobacillus buchneri on soybean curd residue co-conversion by black soldier fly larvae (Hermetia illucens) for food and feedstock production, Waste Management, 86, 114-122, available here
2018
Gold M., Tomberlin J. K., Diener S., Zurbrügg C., Mathys A. (2018). Decomposition of biowaste macronutrients, microbes, and chemicals in black soldier fly larval treatment: A review, Waste Management, 82, 2018, 302-318. Open acess, available here
Gold, M., Harada, H., Therrien, J. D., Nishida, T., Cunningham, M., Semiyaga, S., ... & Strande, L. (2018). Cross-country analysis of faecal sludge dewatering. Environmental Technology, 39(23), 3077-3087. Open access, available here
Gold, M., Cunningham, M., Bleuler, M., Arnheiter, R., Schönborn, A., Niwagaba, C., & Strande, L. (2018). Operating parameters for three resource recovery options from slow-pyrolysis of faecal sludge. Journal of Water, Sanitation and Hygiene for Development, 8(4), 707-717. Open access, available here
Before 2018
Gold, M., Ddiba, D. I. W., Seck, A., Sekigongo, P., Diene, A., Diaw, S., ... & Strande, L. (2017). Faecal sludge as a solid industrial fuel: a pilot-scale study. Journal of Water, Sanitation and Hygiene for Development, 7(2), 243-251. Open access, available here
Gold, M., Dayer, P., Faye, M. C. A. S., Clair, G., Seck, A., Niang, S., ... & Strande, L. (2016). Locally produced natural conditioners for dewatering of faecal sludge. Environmental technology, 37(21), 2802-2814. Open access, availble here
Seck, A., Gold, M., Niang, S., Mbéguéré, M., Diop, C., & Strande, L. (2015). Faecal sludge drying beds: increasing drying rates for fuel resource recovery in Sub-Saharan Africa. Journal of Water, Sanitation and Hygiene for Development, 5(1), 72-80. Open access, available here