Bio Base Europe Pilot Plant
Belgium
Marta Yabar is a doctoral candidate with an international background in bioprocess engineering, specializing in downstream processing. Originally from Pamplona, Spain, she studied Biotechnology in Tarragona before moving to Austria to pursue a Master’s degree in Bioprocess Engineering at IMC FH Krems. Her career started in Vienna, Austria, where she was employed at Boehringer Ingelheim in downstream process development, and later as downstream processing manufacturing specialist in Lonza (Visp, Switzerland). Currently, she is pursuing a PhD at Bio Base Europe Pilot Plant (Gent, Belgium) within the YAF (Yeast-based solutions for Sustainable Aviation Fuels) project, a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) Doctoral Network. Her research is focused on optimizing Sustainable Aviation Fuels (SAF) precursors extraction and purification in order to develop a sustainable and cost-effective downstream process for the production of aviation biofuel.