Congratulations to Dr Hannah Bird and her colleagues at Newcastle University on their recent paper:
Understanding the limitations of substrate degradation in bioelectrochemical systems. Bird, H., Velasquez-Orta, S. and Heidrich, E., 2025. Frontiers in Microbiology, 15, p.1511142.
Dr Sharon Velasquez-Orta, EBNet’s WG Lead on Bioelectrochemical systems, said: “This study forms part of the doctoral research of Hannah Bird, joint recipient of EBNet’s 2024 ECR Conference Prize, and winner of the Session 5a best presentation prize.
Building on our previous work on substrate hydrolysis and fermentation rates in microbial fuel cells (MFCs), Hannah investigates how mass transfer mechanisms, microbial community MFC dynamics, and substrate complexity influence MFC performance. Our overarching goal is to identify key challenges in scaling up MFCs for wastewater treatment, bridging the gap between fundamental research and practical application in environmental systems”.
See below for Hannah’s ‘I am an Environmental Biotechnologist…’ post from the 2024 ECR conference:
