RESEARCHERS >
DANIEL GAPES, Ph.D.
Scientist and Project Leader
Sustainable Design Group
Scion Next Generation Biomaterials

Address:
Te Papa Tipu Innovation Park
49 Sala Street
Private Bag 3020
Rotorua, New Zealand
3010

Contact:
Phone: +64.7.343.5785
E-mail:  Daniel.Gapes@scionresearch.com

Link to a website:
http://www.scionresearch.com/general/about-us/our-people/people/daniel-gapes

Research Areas:
1) Bioreaction engineering and environmental biotechnology.
2) Developing specialty in production of valuable materials from waste precursors, with particular emphasis on the bacterial production of polyhydroxyalkanoate biopolymers.
3) Developing specialty in wet oxidation for conversion of waste biomass into small molecules, useful as precursors for downstream biotechnologies.

Dr. Gapes is co-inventor of the TOGA sensor, a high-end fermentation research instrument.  Dr. Gapes is also responsible for developing and maintaining a key strategic relationship with a number of leading environmental biotechnology research laboratories, including the Department of Biosystems Engineering at the University of Manitoba and the Advanced Water Management Centre at the University of Queensland, Australia.  These relationships focus both on fermentation research as well as the commercial development the TOGA sensor.