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Dr. Maurice C.R. Franssen

Dr. Maurice C.R. Franssen
Room nr. 1030C (first floor Laboratory of Organic Chemistry)
Tel. +31-317-482976 (direct line)
E-mail address: maurice.franssen@wur.nl

Responsibilities

Dr. Maurice Franssen is…..

  • Leader of the research group on Biocatalysis in organic chemistry
  • Author/co-author of more than 70 scientific publications
  • Chairman of the Section on Applied Biocatalysis (ESAB) of the European Federation of Biotechnology (EFB)
  • Associate Editor of the international journal Biocatalysis and Biotransformation
  • Member of the graduate school Food Technology, Agrobiotechnology, Nutrition and Health Sciences (VLAG)
  • Teacher of a number of courses at WU on topics like Enzymology, Structure and Reactivity, and Applied Biocatalysis.
General research interests
Applications of biocatalysts (enzymes, microbial cells) in organic chemistry; Sesquiterpene biosynthesis