IBB NETZWERK - Key Persons


Dr. Annika Byrne

Job Titles:
  • Project Manager
Dr. Annika Byrne stud ied Applied Bio logy in her under gradu ate stud ies at FH Bonn-Rhein-Sieg and at the Uni ver sity of Aber deen (Scot land). She com pleted her doc tor ate in the field of struc tur al bio logy and indus tri al bio-cata lys is at the Uni ver sity of York, Eng land. Dr. Byrne joined Prof. Michael Groll's team at TU Munich for a post-doc tor ate pos i tion and focused on x‑ray crys tal lo graph ic ana lys is of med ic ally and bio tech no lo gic ally rel ev ant pro teins. From 2017 to 2021, she worked at the Helm holtz Zentrum's Insti tute of Lung Bio logy and Dis eases in Munich, where she was respons ible for the coordin a tion or the loc al bio-archive. Since July 2021, Dr. Byrne joined our team as pro ject manager.

Dr. Christian Schütz

Job Titles:
  • Wissenschaftlicher Referent / Projektkoordinator, Bereich Kunststoffe Fraunhofer - Institut Für Betriebsfestigkeit Und Systemzuverlässigkeit LBF
As the region al asso ci ation of Bav ari an mills, the Bay erischer Müller bund e.V. is a long-stand ing mem ber of the Indus tri al Bio tech no logy Cluster. We would like to emphas ise that we feel well rep res en ted and rep res en ted in this cluster with our con cerns. Through the IBB net work, we have suc ceeded in ini ti at ing import ant research pro jects that hold out the pro spect of prom ising util isa tion of domest ic mill by-products and non-util is able resid ual mater i al streams from the milling industry. We are very grate ful to the IBB Net zwerk GmbH team for this extraordin ary sup port in many respects, because our mem ber ship offers not only per son al sup port but also the oppor tun ity for net work ing, hand ling R&D pro jects, inform a tion about fund ing meas ures and much more. IBB Net zwerk GmbH occu pies an essen tial pos i tion for us and thus a region al and supra-region al sig ni fic ance for indus tri al bio tech no logy in Bavaria.

Dr. Georg Gruber

Job Titles:
  • Geschäftsführer Vereinigte Werkstätten Für Pflanzenöltechnologie Dr. Gruber / Gruber GbR
Sil antes has exper i enced IBB as an import ant, com pet ent part ner in the devel op ment of its tech niques, not only in the suc cess ful hand ling of the fund ing land scape (most recently in the sup port provided as part of the Bay. Ini ti at ive ​"Call for Bio tech no logy"), but fur ther more in the net work cooper a tion in the cre ation of innov at ive Sil antes products, such as iso tope-labelled mouse feed, a spe cial product for quant it at ive pro teo m ics and meta bolo m ics in mice. For us, IBB's con nec tions into aca demia and polit ics have proven help ful in expand ing our activities. IBB is not only act ive in the Munich met ro pol it an region, but has its sights set on the whole of Bav aria. This has benefited Sil antes, which is devel op ing out of the labor at ory sec tor and look ing for sites for pilot plants. IBB's fin ger-point ing at north ern Bav aria (Straub ing and Deg gen dorf) as pos sible altern at ives to Munich for afford able land to build pilot plants has been suc cess fully used by Silantes. Pro fess or Zorbas, togeth er with his team, has man aged to bring IBB togeth er with the sub groups of SMEs, aca demia and large com pan ies into a power ful asso ci ation, mak ing it an import ant build ing block in the Bav ari an innov a tion land scape in the field of indus tri al biotechnology.

Dr. Hermann Heumann

Job Titles:
  • Geschäftsführer Silantes GmbH

Dr. Konstantinos Antonopoulos

Job Titles:
  • Am Klopferspitz 19
  • Geschäftsführer Mk2 Biotechnologies GmbH
The bio tech no lo gic al pro duc tion and pro cessing meth ods estab lished by my chair are suit able for pro du cing indus tri al quant it ies of silk mater i al that can be used in many areas of tech no logy. How ever, this has only been pos sible in recent years with innov at ive part ners. IBB plays a key role in this, as it helps us to get in touch with cus tom ers, part ners and com pet it ors loc ally, e.g. with in the frame work of IBB's net work ing events. IBB is an import ant inter face that gives us access to indus tri al bio tech no logy from with in the uni ver sity. That is why we have been a mem ber of the asso ci ation for many years.

Laura Mayrock

Job Titles:
  • Office Manager
After her appren tice ship as an office clerk, Laura Mayrock com pleted the com mer cial spe cial ist cer ti fic ate at the Cham ber of Crafts for Swa bia accord ing to the Crafts Code, which also includes the so-called ​"Ada-Schein" (instruct or aptitude test). She then com pleted fur ther train ing to become a cer ti fied busi ness admin is trat or accord ing to the Crafts Code at the Elb cam pus in Ham burg. This included gen er al civil, labour and tax law, vari ous types of fin an cing, mar ket ing, human resources man age ment, cor por ate strategies, value cre ation, as well as aspects of economics. After sev er al years of pro fes sion al exper i ence in the areas of payroll and fin an cial account ing, pro ject plan ning, HR and event man age ment, Ms Mayrock has now been part of IBB Net zwerk GmbH since May 2023 and is respons ible for all com mer cial and busi ness man age ment issues relat ing to the Cluster for Indus tri al Bio tech no logy Bavaria.

Nicole Unger

Nicole Unger stud ied bio logy at LMU Munich. She star ted her doc tor ate at LMU's depart ment of physiolo gic al gen om ics and fol lowed her dis ser ta tion advisor to the Uni ver sity of Ulm. She assisted in writ ing pub lic a tions and research pro pos als for SPP, SFB and ERANET. Fol low ing her applied lab activ it ies, Mrs. Unger joined a Munich-based media house oper at ing at the inter face of Life Sci ences and Fin ances and gained mul ti fa ceted exper i ences in the fields of edit or i als, event organ iz a tion and man age ment, pro ject man age ment and pub lic rela tion. In Janu ary 2021, Nicole Unger joined IBB Net zwerk GmbH as pro ject manager.