Chair of Cellular Agriculture
Chair of Cellular Agriculture
The Chair of Cellular Agriculture is an interdisciplinary research group focused on the development of scalable cellular agriculture and advanced biomanufacturing systems, including cultivated meat, cultivated seafood, precision fermentation, and AI enabled bioprocess engineering. The chair combines biotechnology, process engineering, computational modeling, and sustainability assessment to accelerate the industrial translation of next generation food and biotechnology systems.
The chair is affiliated with the Technical University of Munich and collaborates with academic, industrial, and European research partners.
Research Focus
Key research areas include:
• Cultivated meat and seafood production systems
• Bioreactor engineering and industrial scale up
• Techno economic analysis (TEA) and life cycle assessment (LCA)
• Digital twins and AI driven bioprocess optimization
• Waste stream valorization and circular biomanufacturing
• Media recycling and resource efficiency
• Infrastructure design for future biotechnology manufacturing
The chair places particular emphasis on translating laboratory scale proof of concepts into scalable and economically viable industrial systems.
Importance of the Research
Research in cellular agriculture is increasingly considered important for global food security, sustainable manufacturing, and European biotechnology competitiveness.
Conventional livestock production contributes substantially to greenhouse gas emissions, land use, and resource consumption. Cellular agriculture aims to develop alternative production systems with lower environmental impact and improved process efficiency.
A major challenge remains industrial scale manufacturing. The chair therefore focuses on critical bottlenecks such as:
• Cell density and productivity limitations
• Oxygen transfer and nutrient delivery
• Media cost reduction
• Bioreactor scalability
• Process automation and digitalization
• Circular process design and waste minimization
The integration of artificial intelligence, mechanistic modeling, and process data is a central part of the chair’s long term vision for intelligent biomanufacturing systems.
Publications and Scientific Work
The chair contributes to research on:
• Industrial cultivated meat manufacturing
• Sustainable bioprocess systems
• Circularity and waste stream valorization
• Process systems engineering
• AI integrated biotechnology manufacturing
Selected publication and topic areas include:
• Nature Food: The Promise of Cultivated Meat
• Good Food Institute Scientific Publications Database
• Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems: Cultivated Meat Review
• McKinsey Report on Cellular Agriculture and Food Biotechnology
See also
• Cellular Agriculture
• Bioprocess Engineering
• Cultivated meat
• Precision Fermentation
External Links
• Technical University of Munich
• Future Foods Initiative
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