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Olaf Kruse publication distribution in Biology and Biochemistry in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Biology and Biochemistry in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Olaf Kruse sits on this spectrum.

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47 publications 1,028+

This scientist: 154 publications — 29th percentile

29% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 1,028 publications or more.

Olaf Kruse D-index placement in Biology and Biochemistry in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Biology and Biochemistry scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Olaf Kruse sits on this spectrum.

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40 D-Index 167+

This scientist: 61 D-Index — 44th percentile

44% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 167 D-Index or more.

Overview

Olaf Kruse is affiliated with Bielefeld University in Germany and has a research focus primarily in Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology as well as Energy. Their work encompasses a broad range of studies related to molecular biology and renewable energy, with particular attention to microalgal biology and biofuel production.

The main subfields of Kruse's research include Molecular Biology, Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, Biomedical Engineering, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, and Pollution. Their work covers several specialized topics such as:

  • Algal biology and biofuel production
  • Photosynthetic Processes and Mechanisms
  • Enzyme Catalysis and Immobilization
  • Protist diversity and phylogeny
  • Microbial Metabolic Engineering and Bioproduction
  • Biocrusts and Microbial Ecology
  • CRISPR and Genetic Engineering

Among recent publications, significant papers include:

  • Introns mediate post-transcriptional enhancement of nuclear gene expression in the green microalga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii, 2020, PLoS Genetics
  • Rational Promoter Engineering Enables Robust Terpene Production in Microalgae, 2021, ACS Synthetic Biology
  • High cell density cultivation enables efficient and sustainable recombinant polyamine production in the microalga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii, 2020, Bioresource Technology
  • Engineering a powerful green cell factory for robust photoautotrophic diterpenoid production, 2022, Metabolic Engineering
  • Molecular design of microalgae as sustainable cell factories, 2023, Trends in biotechnology

Frequent collaborators in Kruse's research network include Thomas Baier, Olga Blifernez-Klassen, Alexander Einhaus, Anant Patel, and Robert A. Freudenberg.

Kruse's work is regularly published in several scientific venues, with multiple contributions appearing in Chemie Ingenieur Technik, Bioresource Technology, Trends in biotechnology, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), and Metabolic Engineering.

Best Publications

  • SECOND GENERATION BIOFUELS: HIGH-EFFICIENCY MICROALGAE FOR BIODIESEL PRODUCTION

    Peer M. Schenk;Skye R. Thomas-Hall;Evan Stephens;Ute C. Marx

  • Microalgae as substrates for fermentative biogas production in a combined biorefinery concept.

    Jan H. Mussgnug;Viktor Klassen;Andreas Schlüter;Olaf Kruse

  • An economic and technical evaluation of microalgal biofuels

    Evan Stephens;Ian L Ross;Zachary King;Jan H Mussgnug

  • Potential of industrial biotechnology with cyanobacteria and eukaryotic microalgae

    René H Wijffels;Olaf Kruse;Klaas J Hellingwerf

  • Future prospects of microalgal biofuel production systems

    Evan Stephens;Ian Ross;Jan H. Mussgnug;Liam Wagner

  • Photosynthesis: a blueprint for solar energy capture and biohydrogen production technologies

    Olaf Kruse;Jens Rupprecht;Jan H. Mussgnug;G. Charles Dismukes

  • The metagenome of a biogas-producing microbial community of a production-scale biogas plant fermenter analysed by the 454-pyrosequencing technology

    Andreas Schlüter;Thomas Bekel;Naryttza N. Diaz;Michael Dondrup

  • Improved photobiological H2 production in engineered green algal cells.

    Olaf Kruse;Jens Rupprecht;Klaus-Peter Bader;Skye Thomas-Hall

  • Engineering photosynthetic light capture: impacts on improved solar energy to biomass conversion

    Jan H. Mussgnug;Skye Thomas-Hall;Jens Rupprecht;Alexander Foo

  • Selection, breeding and engineering of microalgae for bioenergy and biofuel production

    Anthony W.D. Larkum;Ian L. Ross;Olaf Kruse;Ben Hankamer

  • PHOTOSYNTHETIC BIOMASS AND H2 PRODUCTION BY GREEN ALGAE: FROM BIOENGINEERING TO BIOREACTOR SCALE-UP

    Ben Hankamer;Florian Lehr;Jens Rupprecht;Jan H. Mussgnug

  • FtsH is involved in the early stages of repair of photosystem II in Synechocystis sp PCC 6803

    Paulo Silva;Elinor Thompson;Shaun Bailey;Olaf Kruse

  • Perspectives and advances of biological H2 production in microorganisms.

    Jens Rupprecht;Ben Hankamer;Jan H. Mussgnug;Jan H. Mussgnug;Gennady Ananyev

  • Improvement of light to biomass conversion by de-regulation of light-harvesting protein translation in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii.

    Julia Beckmann;F. Lehr;G. Finazzi;B. Hankamer

  • Birth of a Photosynthetic Chassis: A MoClo Toolkit Enabling Synthetic Biology in the Microalga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii

    Pierre Crozet;Francisco J Navarro;Felix Willmund;Payam Mehrshahi

  • Developments and perspectives of photobioreactors for biofuel production

    Michael Morweiser;Olaf Kruse;Ben Hankamer;Clemens Posten

  • The metabolome of Chlamydomonas reinhardtii following induction of anaerobic H2 production by sulfur depletion.

    Timmins Matthew;Wenxu Zhou;Jens Rupprecht;Lysha Lim

  • Phosphatidylglycerol is involved in the dimerization of photosystem II.

    Olaf Kruse;Ben Hankamer;Carsten Konczak;Christoph Gerle

  • Microalgal hydrogen production.

    Olaf Kruse;Ben Hankamer

  • Proteomics of Chlamydomonas reinhardtii Light-Harvesting Proteins

    Einar J. Stauber;Andreas Fink;Christine Markert;Olaf Kruse

Frequent Co-Authors

Alexander Goesmann
Alexander Goesmann University of Giessen
Peer M. Schenk
Peer M. Schenk University of Queensland
Peter J. Nixon
Peter J. Nixon Imperial College London
Jörn Kalinowski
Jörn Kalinowski Bielefeld University
James Barber
James Barber Imperial College London
Norbert Sewald
Norbert Sewald Bielefeld University
Roberto Bassi
Roberto Bassi University of Verona
Jochen Blom
Jochen Blom University of Giessen
Karsten Niehaus
Karsten Niehaus Bielefeld University
Conrad W. Mullineaux
Conrad W. Mullineaux Queen Mary University of London

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