Mark van Loosdrecht

Position/title: 
full professor
Institution: 
Delft University of Technology (TU delft)
Department: 
Department of Biotechnology
Personal/department website
Research interests: 
biofilm and Granular Sludge Systems
microbial storage polymers
nutrient removal processes
microbial ecology of engineered systems
Short CV / biography / description of scientific focus and achievements: 
  • 1999 - present - Full professor and (since 2003) Group leader Environmental Biotechnology, Department of Biotechnology, Faculty of Applied Sciences, Delft University of Technology
  • 1988 - 1999 - Associate professor Environmental Biotechnology, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands
  • 1988 - PhD Microbiology prof. A.J.B. Zehnder and Surface & Colloid Chemistry prof. J. Lyklema, ‘Microbial Adhesion’, Wageningen University, The Netherlands
  • 1985 - MSc Environmental Engineering, Wageningen University, The Netherlands

Member Netherlands Academy of Technology and Innovation, 2007
Member Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW), 2004

Relevant publications: 
van der Star, W.R.L., Abma, W.R., Blommers, D., Mulder, J.-W., Tokutomi, T., Strous, M., Picioreanu, C., van Loosdrecht, M.C.M. Startup of reactors for anoxic ammonium oxidation: Experiences from the first full-scale anammox reactor in Rotterdam (2007) Water Research, 41 (18), pp. 4149-4163.
De Kreuk, M.K., Heijnen, J.J., Van Loosdrecht, M.C.M. Simultaneous COD, nitrogen, and phosphate removal by aerobic granular sludge (2005) Biotechnology and Bioengineering, 90 (6), pp. 761-769.
Van Loosdrecht, M.C.M., Heijnen, J.J., Eberl, H., Kreft, J., Picioreanu, C. Mathematical modelling of biofilm structures (2002) Antonie van Leeuwenhoek, International Journal of General and Molecular Microbiology, 81 (1-4), pp. 245-256.
Van Loosdrecht, M.C.M., Eikelboom, D., Gjaltema, A., Mulder, A., Tijhuis, L., Heijnen, J.J. Biofilm structures (1995) Water Science and Technology, 32 (8), pp. 35-43.
Van Loosdrecht, M.C.M., Lyklema, J., Norde, W., Zehnder, A.J.B. Influence of interfaces on microbial activity (1990) Microbiological Reviews, 54 (1), pp. 75-87.