IMX Seminar Series - Analyzing Lignin and Cellulose - adding some new methods to an old case

Antje POTTHAST has studied Chemistry at Dresden University of Technology and was a visiting scientist at NC State University in Raleigh, USA, where she also worked as a postdoc. She did her habilitation in Wood Chemistry at BOKU University Vienna, where she is currently full professor at the Department of Chemistry, Institute of Chemistry of Renewables. Antje Potthast conducts research in the field of biopolymer chemistry, in particular the analysis and modification of cellulose and lignin (structure, modification, utilization, analytical method development) in very different research areas also including historic materials and paper aging and mechanisms. She is deputy head of the Austrian Biorefinery Center Tulln (ABCT) and leads the doctoral school ABC&M ("Advanced biorefineries - chemistry and materials"), which trains future biorefinery experts working in university research, policy consulting or industry. Antje Potthast has published +390 SCI papers.