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Panel 14 – chemistry
Total work done: Quality very good to excellent; relevance excellent.
Present/future: seems to be going well; but difficult to evaluate.
The research area “stimuli-responsive polymers in biotechnology” is an
interesting field which has been consequently applied for optimizing
separation technology with really focusing on the aspects that it works.
Well recognized publications.
Total work done: Quality very good to excellent; relevance excellent.
Present/future: Going very well; high potential for the future even
though one has to make sure that young people will follow up.
“Supermacroporous gels for biotechnology” is again, a highly interesting
field with very high expertise shown which is really driven to working
systems. As in the topic above, here real materials expertise is showing up;
it is dissapointing, that the materials activities shown in the biotechnology
area are not combined with the material science group and also not
made more visible in the future plans.
Total work done: Quality very good to excellent; highly relevance.
Present/future: Going very well, should be placed better within the
aspect of material science.
No doubt KILU has an outstanding reputation in molecular imprinting!
This group is leading world wide. It also looks that with the partial
retirement of the leading person it was possible to keep up the expertise
and to have now a promising younger researcher.
Total work done: Quality outstanding; highly relevant
Present/future: Present still profiting from one highly acknowledged
expert who is least partly retired; should be placed better within the
aspect of material science.
The field of “monitoring and control in biotechnological processes” can
not fully be judge by the Panel. Looks like on a good to very good level.
The research group in “extremophilic microorganisms” is internationally
recognized and has the potential to develop towards a strong internationally
competitive group. The group has been very active and productive
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