Alexander Bismarck
University of Vienna, Austria
Title
Fungal biorefinery: Upcycling waste textiles into the next generation of mycelium composites with a promising future
Bio
Alexander Bismarck studied Technical Chemistry at TU Berlin (Germany), where he also completed his PhD in Polymer Science, before joining the Surfactant & Colloid Group at the University of Hull as a postdoctoral fellow. Prior to his appointment as Lecturer in Chemical Engineering at Imperial College London, he worked in industry as an R&D Engineer for Sulzer Composites in Winterthur (Switzerland). Since 2012, he has been Professor of Materials Chemistry and Head of the Institute of Materials Chemistry at the Faculty of Chemistry, University of Vienna. His research focuses on various aspects of polymer materials, with particular emphasis on interface design and the manufacturing of advanced composites, renewable materials and porous polymers. More recently, his group has explored the potential of the fungal biorefinery as a route for the effortless isolation of fungal chitin material.
