Astrid Mach-Aigner

Associate Prof. Dipl.-Ing. Dr.in techn. Astrid Mach-Aigner

Habilitated for: Synthetic Biology

Homepage (University): E166-05-1-Synthetische Biologie und Molekulare Biotechnologie | TU Wien

Astrid Rosa Mach-Aigner studied Technical Chemistry at TU Wien, where she completed her doctorate in 2007 with a dissertation on the regulation of xylanase gene expression in Trichoderma reesei.

After an industrial internship at Boehringer Ingelheim and a one-year postdoctoral stay at Wageningen University (Netherlands), she returned to TU Wien in 2015 and was awarded the venia docendi for the field of synthetic biology.

She is head of the “Synthetic Biology and Molecular Biotechnology” research group at the Institute of Process Engineering, Environmental Engineering and Technical Biosciences.