Anton Glieder
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Profession | CEO & CSO ACIB |
| ACIB Function | CEO & CSO | |
| Contact | anton.glieder@acib.at |
Anton Glieder studied Chemistry and Biochemistry at the University of Vienna. After his diploma he changed to Graz and finished his PhD thesis in microbiology at the University of Graz. From1993 to 1997 he was a postoctoral fellow at the special research programme Biocatalysis at the Graz University of Technology.
After three years of industrial experience he started his academic career as an assistant professor at Graz University of Technology and after a year as a visiting scientist in FH Arnold´s lab at Caltech hejoined the Research Centre Applied Biocatalysis (A-B) as a project leader and key researcher in 2002. In 2003 Anton Glieder became associate professor at the Institute of Molecular Biotechnology of Graz University of Technology and he obtained the first Dr. W. Houska award in 2006.
His main interest are in protein engineering, yeast based protein expression and whole cell catalysis systems, directed evolution, industrial biocatalysis, yeast metabolic engineering and synthetic biology.
In 2008 Anton Glieder became scientific director of the ACIB initiative and in 2009 also scientific director of the Research Centre Applied Biocatalysis (Angewandte Biokatalyse GmbH). As of November 1, 2010 he is part of the Executive Board of Directors (Scientific Director - CEO & CSO) of the Austrian Centre of Industrial Biotechnology (ACIB GmbH).
