University of Graz, Office of Research Management and Service, Institute of Chemistry, Graz, Austria.

Martin Koller is an experienced senior researcher in the field of polyhydroxyalkanoate (PHA) biopolyester production, encompassing development of continuous and discontinuous processes, and novel downstream processing techniques for sustainable PHA recovery from biomass. His focus of research is cost-efficient PHA production from surplus materials. He acted as coordinator of the EU-FP7 project ANIMPOL, which investigated the conversion of waste streams from the animal processing industry towards structurally diversified PHA biopolyesters and follow up products.