Kaloyan K Petrov is the Head of the Department of Chemical and Biochemical Reactors in the Institute of Chemical Engineering, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. His work is devoted to optimization of downstream processes by the techniques of bioprocess and metabolic engineering. His team develops biotechnologies for microbial production of platform chemicals and fuels by conversion of waste or renewable energy resources, including the cutting-edge biotechnologies for 2,3-Butanediol production from glycerol and starch by the use of natural and recombinant strains, and novel bio-processes for lactic acid synthesis by utilization of starch and inulin. Other topics of his work are the fermentative production of enzymes and valuable chemicals in respect of their industrial application, strain’s improvement by gene engineering, microbiological and molecular biological tools, development and analysis of probiotics and prebiotics. Kaloyan K Petrov is the Head of the Department of Chemical and Biochemical Reactors in the Institute of Chemical Engineering, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. His work is devoted to optimization of downstream processes by the techniques of bioprocess and metabolic engineering. His team develops biotechnologies for microbial production of platform chemicals and fuels by conversion of waste or renewable energy resources, including the cutting-edge biotechnologies for 2,3-Butanediol production from glycerol and starch by the use of natural and recombinant strains, and novel bio-processes for lactic acid synthesis by utilization of starch and inulin. Other topics of his work are the fermentative production of enzymes and valuable chemicals in respect of their industrial application, strain’s improvement by gene engineering, microbiological and molecular biological tools, development and analysis of probiotics and prebiotics.

Biochemistry and Molecular Biology