Martijn Bekker

Martijn is currently active as an Expertise Leader at Wageningen Food and Biobased Research. Here he leads projects that focus on optimization of microbial production processes ranging from food fermentation to probiotics production for a wide range of companies. He has worked in various roles as both Scientist and Team Lead at The Coca-Cola Company, a Contract Research Organization called NIZO and has led the initiation and scale-up of a start-up company called Photanol. Thanks to these roles Martijn has extensive experience with process optimization of microbial processes and in scaling these from the lab to industrial scale.