Academic Career

Since 12/2023	Doctoral candidate (external) at the Professorship of Fungal Biotechnology in Wood Science
12/2022 - 06/2023	Research associate, TUM Chair of Biotechnology
2020 - 2022	M.Sc. Biology, Technical University of Munich
05/2020 - 08/2020	Medical Laboratory Diagnostics SARS-CoV-2, Novogenia
2016 - 2020	B.Sc. Biology (Specialization: Molecular and Medical Biology), Paris Lodron University Salzburg

Research Areas

• Doctoral Thesis:

  “Increasing the biogas production efficiency by utilizing anaerobic fungi for the biological pretreatment of lignocellulose-rich residues”

• Previous work:

  “Development of an oxygen-independent FAST-based fluorescent reporter system in the cellulolytic anaerobe Clostridium cellulovorans” (Master's thesis)
  
  “Association study of oleic acid on longevity and excitatory amino acid transporter EAAT4 on establishing the calcium gradient in the context of aging skin” (Bachelor 's thesis)

  Publications

• Schöllkopf AI, Almeida L, Krammer K, Gonzalez Rivero C, Liebl W, Ehrenreich A. Deletion of atypical type II restriction genes in Clostridium cellulovorans using a Cas9-based gene editing system. Appl Microbiol Biotechnol. 2025 Jan 29;109(1):31. doi: 10.1007/s00253-025-13404-6. PMID: 39878871; PMCID: PMC11779793.