Transforming Trash: Steps to sustainably process and extract value from plastic waste
Engineering Efficiency: Harnessing microorganisms to convert waste into valuable products
New Beginnings: Creating next-gen materials from single-use plastics for a circular economy
Establishment of a high-performance Research and Innovation Hub for Synthetic Microbial Biotechnology, elevating NTUA’s profile, addressing the innovation gap among the European Union countries, all the while delivering impactful socio-enviro-economic outputs via new circular petro- and bioplastics lifecycles.
Scientific community expansion
We have diverse and complementary backgrounds in enzyme biochemistry and biocatalysis, plastic recycling technologies, molecular genetics and biotechnology, synthetic biology and microbial engineering.
The creation of microbial cell factories, capable of producing significant quantities of valuable and innovative bioproducts through fermentation of plastic waste-derived feedstocks
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TwInn4MicroUp project promotes a newly published research article addressing microbial strategies for plastic degradation and valorization, with a focus on Pseudomonas aeruginosa as a versatile microbial platform.
On Monday, 8 December 2025, NTUA hosted the institutional event “European University EULiST: Opportunities and Perspectives for the NTUA Community” […]
A team from the Biotechnology Laboratory of NTUA was distinguished at the GreenTech Challenge, Greece’s largest national programme for green […]
