Dr.-Ing. Cedric Schirmer
Dr.-Ing. Cedric Schirmer
ZHAW
School of Life Sciences and Facility Management
Fachstelle Biokatalyse und Prozesstechnologie
Einsiedlerstrasse 34
8820 Wädenswil
Work at ZHAW
Position
- Lecturer
- Deputy Head Section Bioprocess Technology
Focus
- Process engineering characterisation and development of bioreactors
- Bioprocess and fermentation engineering
- Scale-up of microbial and cell culture processes
- Single-use technology for biopharmaceutical manufacturing
- Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD)
- Cell culture technology, animal cells, human mesenchymal stem cells
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Projects
- Valve qualification / Deputy project leader / completed
- Evaluation perfusion membrane / Team member / completed
- Human Embryonic Kidney cells (50 L) / Team member / completed
- Process development and biomass production of S. cerevisiae spiked with heavy water / Co-project leader / completed
- Evaluation of cell separation using the GEA kytero® Single Use Pharma Separator with disk stack technology / Project leader / completed
- Muscle generator – The key to unlock scalable and affordable cultivated meat production / Project leader / completed
- Process development for COVID-19 VLP vaccine production / Team member / completed
- Microbiome therapeutics / Deputy project leader / completed
Publications before appointment at the ZHAW
- Goepfert, Christiane; Blume, Grit; Faschian, Rebecca; Meyer, Stefanie; Schirmer, Cedric; Müller-Wichards, Wiebke; Müller, Jörg; Fischer, Janine; Feyerabend, Frank; Pörtner, Ralf, 2013. A modular flow-chamber bioreactor concept as a tool for continuous 2D- and 3D-cell culture. BMC Proceedings.7(Suppl 6),P87.
- Pörtner, Ralf; Goepfert, Christiane; Schirmer, Cedric; Hsu, Hao-Hsiang; Blume, Grit; Voigt, Miriam; Rapoport, Daniel Hans, 2016. Reaktionstechnische Charakterisierung von Bioreaktoren für die regenerative Medizin. In: Beckmann, D; Kaufhold, S, Hrsg., 18. Heiligenstädter Kolloquium: Technische Systeme für die Lebenswissenschaften. Heilbad-Heiligenstadt: Institut für Bioprozess- und Analysenmesstechnik e.V. S. 575-582. ISBN: 978-3-00-054165-0.