- Full Name: Balew Getie Mengaw
- Academic Rank: Lecturer
- Institutional email: balew_getie@dmu.edu.et
- Google scholar/ORCID address/Scopus/WoS: ORCID ID: 0009-0007-0833-950X
- Specialization: Master of Science in Industrial Biotechnology
- Courses taught: Introduction to biotechnology, biochemistry, cell biology, techniques in molecular biology, enzymology and enzyme technology, industrial biotechnology, pharmaceutical biotechnology, biosafety, bioethics and intellectual property rights, and microbial biotechnology.
- Research interest:
- Identification and improvement of industrial microorganism strains
- Sustainable bioprocessing technologies: Development of microbial bioprocesses for sustainable production of bioproducts, like therapeutic proteins and biopharmaceuticals, antibiotics, amino acids, organic acids, enzymes, vitamins, biofuels, biopolymers, bioplastics, and fermented production.
- Enzyme discovery, engineering, and biocatalysis
- Microbial fermentation and optimization of fermentation processes
- Bioprocess scale-up and bioreactor design
- Waste valorization and circular economy strategies in biotechnology
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