Largus Angenent

Largus T. Angenent , also Lars Agenent , (* 1969 ) is a Dutch microbiologist and bio-engineer .

Angenent studied at Wageningen University and at Iowa State University , where he received his doctorate. He became an Assistant Professor at Washington University in 2002, Associate Professor in 2008 and Professor at Cornell University in 2015 . In 2017 he received a Humboldt Professorship at the Eberhard Karls University in Tübingen .

He deals with bioprocess engineering with microbes (synthesis of fuels and chemicals), for example for the production of methane as fuel from carbon obtained from biomass with microbes and with methods of electrochemistry (Microbial Electrochemical Technologies, MET). To this end, he and his American colleague Dr. Jeff Fornero founded a company in the USA (6 Convert), which later merged with the USA startup Electrochaea (now in Munich). Angenent works with open bacterial cultures (reactor microbiome), controlled mixed cultures or pure bacterial cultures and with anaerobic digestion, anaerobic fermentation, bioelectrochemical systems (also for the storage of energy from electricity), synthesis gas fermentation and acetone-butanol-ethanol fermentation ( ABE fermentation). He and his American colleague Dr. Juan Guzman founded a second company in the USA (Capro-X).

In 2014 he was visiting professor in Ghent. In 2007 he received the Career Award from the National Science Foundation and in 2008 he was a Kavli Fellow.

He is married to the British developmental biologist Ruth Ley .

Web links

• Humboldt Professorship for Angenent
• Angenent Lab