Introduction to White Biotechnology

Karl--Erich Jaeger was trained in biology and chemistry and received his PhD from the University of Bochum, Germany in 1982. He performed post--doctoral work with Robert E.W. Hancock at the University of British Columbia, Vanvouver, Canada and was appointed Managing Chairman of the Department for Microbiology, University of Bochum in 1995. In 2002 he accepted a position as Director of the Institute for Molecular Enzyme Technology at the Research Centre Julich and was appointed Full Professor at Dusseldorf University. His research interests are enantionselective biocatalyis and directed evolution of enzymes.