The SCCER BIOSWEET is pleased to announce that its 2020 Annual Conference was held on 10th of September 2020 virtually and was a great success. This was the final conference of the SCCER, an occasion to wrap up the numerous achievements…
Continue readingAndreas Mehli is a multi-faceted and successful entrepreneur. After spending several years in the business of agricultural machinery, M. Mehli stepped into the bioenergy sector and created the “HTC Innovation Campus Rheinmühle”.
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Gillianne Bowman, PhD, has dedicated the most recent part of her career to study and promote the sustainable use of biomass in Switzerland. After completing her PostDoc in plant ecology and taking a break to raise her children, she joined the WSL team. Her involvement in BIOSWEET-related projects revolves around the modelling of biomass resources and potential in Switzerland. Hear more about her life experience, career trajectory and perspectives as a woman in sciences.
Continue readingWithin the Swiss energy sector, an alliance bringing together major energy companies, municipalities and various professional associations, is urging the Federal Council to provide an efficient, market-oriented financing model for renewable energies. This is required to put an end to…
Continue readingFrédéric Juillard founded TreaTech in 2015, after witnessing the active start-up culture in the Silicon Valley. Treatech reinvents wastewater treatment by developing an environmentally friendly process allowing to recover essential elements like phosphorous. But the road to success can be long and winding!
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Ydna Marie Questell-Santiago fell in love with science at school and fought her way throughout obstacles and gender prejudices to become a successful scientist. Her research is about the conservation and upgrading of three main components of lignocellulosic biomass. Initial depolymerisation and separation of components. Then catalytic upgrading of each component into liquid fuels and chemicals.
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