Professor Blombach's research focuses on the development and optimization of microbial production processes for chemicals and fuels from renewable raw materials. He uses methods of metabolic engineering, synthetic biology and systems biology to exploit the potential of established and novel microbial systems for industrial biotechnology and methods of genetic engineering in combination with metabolome analysis to construct tailor-made cell factories. The development of a quantitative and systemic understanding of the metabolism of the microbial platforms forms the essential basis of his work.
Professor Blombach (1977) studied biotechnology at the University of Applied Sciences Weihenstephan and received his doctorate in 2009 from the Institute of Microbiology and Biotechnology at the University of Ulm. Beginning in 2012, he was junior research group leader at the Institute of Biochemical Engineering at the University of Stuttgart. Prof. Blombach has headed the Professorship for Microbial Biotechnology at TUM Campus Straubing for Biotechnology and Sustainability since October 2018.
- Since 11/2021
Appointed to the DAAD selection committee Forschungsstipendien für promovierte Nachwuchswissenschaftler und P.R.I.M.E. Program für Deutsche und Ausländer
- Since 05/2021
Elected member of the working group “Biochemical Engineering” at DECHEMA
- Since 10/2018
Professor for Microbial Biotechnology at TUM Campus Straubing for Biotechnology and Sustainability at the Technical University of Munich
- 04/2018
Appointment for a professorship (W3) at the Technical University of Munich (Campus Straubing)
- 12/2017
Appointment for a full professorship (W2) ‚Mikrobielle Biotechnologie‘ (Jülicher Modell) at the Heinrich-Heine-University Düsseldorf
- 05/2015–01/2019
Elected member of the “Zukunftsforum Biotechnologie” of DECHEMA
- 10/2012–09/2018
Head of the working group "Molecular Biotechnology" at the Institute of Biochemical Engineering under the supervision of Prof. Dr. R. Takors
- 03/2009–06/2011
Postdoctoral fellow on a project funded by the European Research Area – Industrial Biotechnology (ERA-IB) in the group of Prof. Dr. Bernhard Eikmanns at the Institute of Microbiology and Biotechnology at the University of Ulm.
- 12/2010
Research bonus of the Ulmer Universitätsgesellschaft and the University of Ulm
- 07/2009
Doctoral Award of the Ulmer Universitätsgesellschaft and the University of Ulm
- 04/2005–03/2009
Doctorate in the group of Prof. Dr. Bernhard Eikmanns at the Institute of Microbiology and Biotechnology at the University of Ulm
- 08/2002–12/2002
Practical study semester at Boehringer Ingelheim in Vienna in the Biotechnology Department, Process Development and Fermentation Group
- 02/2001–06/2001
Practical study semester at Creatogen AG in Augsburg in the research and development department
- 10/1999–02/2000
Studies at the Weihenstephan University of Applied Sciences in Freising, Germany
