© Pavel Marichal
Dr.-Ing. Pavel Marichal-Gallardo
Bioprocess Engineering
Max Planck Institute for Dynamics of Complex Technical Systems
Max Planck Institute for Dynamics of Complex Technical Systems
Main Focus
Ongoing research projects at the Max-Planck-Institute:
- A purification platform for viral vaccines & gene therapy vectors
- ContiVir – Continuous Virus Production
Scientific contributions in journals & conferences:
Grants, Honors, and Awards:
- 2021 Innovation Award of the German BioRegions
- EXIST Transfer of Research grant for start-up projects – GMP qualification (≈550 000 €)
- Doctoral graduation with summa cum laude (PhD with highest honors)
- EXIST Transfer of Research Phase I (1.1 million €)
- CONACyT grant for doctoral research (≈55 000€)
- CONACyT grant for Master studies (≈25 000€)

Interests:
- Bioprocess engineering
- Downstream processing of biopharmaceuticals
- Gene & cell therapies
- Vaccines & recombinant protein production
Curriculum Vitae
- From 2019; Co-founder ContiVir Project, at Max-Planck-Institute for Dynamics of Complex Technical Systems (Magdeburg, Germany)
- 2015 – 2019; PhD Fellow Bioprocess Engineering, Downstream Processing at Max-Planck-Institute for Dynamics of Complex Technical Systems (Magdeburg, Germany)
- 2014 – 2014; Head of Downstream Processing at UGA Biopharma GmbH (Berlin, Germany)
- 2012 – 2014; M.Sc. Process Engineering (Hochschule Offenburg, Germany
- 2010 – 2012; Scientist, Recombinant Protein Purification at Chair of Pharmaceutical Biotechnology (Tecnologico de Monterrey, Mexico)
- 2005 – 2010; B. Sc. Biotechnology Engineering (Tecnologico de Monterrey, Mexico)