Miriam Rosenbaum is the director of the Bio Pilot Plant at the Leibniz Institute for Natural Product Research and Infection Biology (HKI) in Jena and a Professor for Synthetic Biotechnology at Friedrich-Schiller-University in Jena. She is a microbial physiologist and bioengineer with a strong focus on metabolic processes and synthetic biology for biotechnological applications.  

Prof. Rosenbaum’s primary research interest lies in microbial electrochemical technologies, particularly in understanding and harnessing the electron transfer processes of microorganisms for sustainable biotechnological applications. A second research focus is on microbial co-culture engineering for controlled bioprocesses with synergistic biosynthetic effects. 

Her research group has been exploring the bioelectrochemical conversion of CO2 and the physiology of electroactive microorganisms. Ongoing research projects include studying the metabolic pathways of electroactive bacteria, optimizing electron transfer mechanisms, and developing new biosynthetic pathways for next generation bioprocesses.