Anaerobic Digestion, an old story for today and tomorrow

Jean-Philippe Steyer is Director of Research at INRAE-LBE in Narbonne (https://narbonne.montpellier.hub.inrae.fr/). His areas of research include modeling and optimizing biological processes for waste and wastewater treatment and recovery. Over the years, the doctoral students he has supervised have worked on modeling microbial diversity, integrating thermodynamics into mass balance models, developing metabolic models in conjunction with innovative real-time instrumentation systems to obtain more accurate information on the dynamics of ecosystems in bioprocesses, as well as life cycle analysis to take environmental impacts into account. He has also broadened his areas of application, focusing on anaerobic digestion as a core bioprocess, but integrating it with innovative processes such as microalgae cultivation for sustainable bioenergy and bioproduct production.
Jean-Philippe Steyer is currently co-director of the INRAE metaprogram on “The bioeconomy for urban areas” (https://better.hub.inrae.fr/) and scientific director of the Explor’AE program on “accelerating high-risk research in agriculture, food, and the environment,” (https://explorae.inrae.fr/fr).