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Overview

Paul Jensen is affiliated with the University of Queensland in Australia. Their research primarily intersects the fields of engineering and environmental science, with significant contributions to subfields including building and construction, biomedical engineering, pollution, environmental engineering, and food science.

Their main research topics encompass anaerobic digestion and biogas production, biofuel production and bioconversion, microbial fuel cells and bioremediation, food waste reduction and sustainability, wastewater treatment and nitrogen removal, 3D printing in biomedical research, and pharmaceutical and antibiotic environmental impacts.

Paul Jensen has authored numerous papers in various scientific journals. Notable recent publications include:

  • Application of purple phototrophic bacteria in a biofilm photobioreactor for single cell protein production: Biofilm vs suspended growth (2020), published in Water Research
  • Wastes to profit: a circular economy approach to value-addition in livestock industries (2021), published in Animal Production Science
  • Transition of microbial communities and degradation pathways in anaerobic digestion at decreasing retention time (2020), published in New Biotechnology
  • Purple phototrophic bacteria granules under high and low upflow velocities (2020), published in Water Research
  • Osmotic shock pre-treatment of Chaetoceros muelleri wet biomass enhanced solvent-free lipid extraction and biogas production (2021), published in Algal Research

Their frequent co-authors include Xue Bai, Damien J. Batstone, Sergi Astals, Tim Hülsen, and María Grassino.

Paul Jensen's work has appeared recurrently in journals such as Waste Management, Water Research, SSRN Electronic Journal, Animal Production Science, and New Biotechnology. Specifically, they have published three papers in Waste Management and two in Water Research, among others.

Best Publications

  • Methylotrophic methanogenesis discovered in the archaeal phylum Verstraetearchaeota.

    Inka Vanwonterghem;Paul N. Evans;Donovan H. Parks;Paul D. Jensen

  • Linking microbial community structure, interactions and function in anaerobic digesters using new molecular techniques.

    Inka Vanwonterghem;Paul D Jensen;Dang P Ho;Damien J Batstone

  • Deterministic processes guide long-term synchronised population dynamics in replicate anaerobic digesters.

    Inka Vanwonterghem;Paul D Jensen;Paul G Dennis;Philip Hugenholtz

  • Free nitrous acid (FNA)-based pretreatment enhances methane production from waste activated sludge

    Qilin Wang;Liu Ye;Guangming Jiang;Paul D. Jensen

  • Identification of synergistic impacts during anaerobic co-digestion of organic wastes

    S. Astals;S. Astals;D.J. Batstone;J. Mata-Alvarez;P.D. Jensen

  • Pre-treatment mechanisms during thermophilic-mesophilic temperature phased anaerobic digestion of primary sludge.

    Huoqing Ge;Paul D. Jensen;Damien J. Batstone

  • Temperature phased anaerobic digestion increases apparent hydrolysis rate for waste activated sludge

    Huoqing Ge;Paul D. Jensen;Damien J. Batstone

  • Anaerobic co-digestion of pig manure and algae: Impact of intracellular algal products recovery on co-digestion performance

    S. Astals;R. S. Musenze;X. Bai;S. Tannock

  • Genome-centric resolution of microbial diversity, metabolism and interactions in anaerobic digestion.

    Inka Vanwonterghem;Paul D. Jensen;Korneel Rabaey;Korneel Rabaey;Gene W. Tyson

  • Assessing the role of biochemical methane potential tests in determining anaerobic degradability rate and extent.

    Paul Jensen;Huoqing Ge;Damien J. Batstone

  • Temperature and solids retention time control microbial population dynamics and volatile fatty acid production in replicated anaerobic digesters

    Inka Vanwonterghem;Paul D. Jensen;Korneel Rabaey;Gene W. Tyson

  • Methanosarcinaceae and Acetate-Oxidizing Pathways Dominate in High-Rate Thermophilic Anaerobic Digestion of Waste-Activated Sludge

    Dang P. Ho;Paul D. Jensen;Damien J. Batstone

  • Anaerobic membrane bioreactors enable high rate treatment of slaughterhouse wastewater

    P.D. Jensen;S.D. Yap;A. Boyle-Gotla;J. Janoschka

  • Anaerobic codigestion of sewage sludge and glycerol, focusing on process kinetics, microbial dynamics and sludge dewaterability.

    P.D. Jensen;S. Astals;S. Astals;Y. Lu;M. Devadas

  • Effects of Temperature and Hydraulic Retention Time on Acetotrophic Pathways and Performance in High-Rate Sludge Digestion

    Dang Ho;Paul Jensen;Damien Batstone

  • Digestion of waste bananas to generate energy in Australia

    William P. Clarke;P. Radnidge;T.E. Lai;P.D. Jensen

  • Phosphorus-31 and Nitrogen- 14 NMR Studies of the Uptake of Phosphorus and Nitrogen Compounds in the Marine Macroalgae Ulva lactuca

    Peter Lundberg;Rainer G. Weich;Paul Jensén;Hans J. Vogel

  • Increased temperature in the thermophilic stage in temperature phased anaerobic digestion (TPAD) improves degradability of waste activated sludge

    Huoqing Ge;Paul D. Jensen;Damien J. Batstone

  • Characterising and modelling free ammonia and ammonium inhibition in anaerobic systems.

    S. Astals;M. Peces;D.J. Batstone;P.D. Jensen

  • Integrated biodiesel and biogas production from microalgae: Towards a sustainable closed loop through nutrient recycling

    Lina María González-González;Diego F. Correa;Stephen Ryan;Paul D. Jensen

  • Deterministic mechanisms define the long-term anaerobic digestion microbiome and its functionality regardless of the initial microbial community.

    M. Peces;S. Astals;P.D. Jensen;W.P. Clarke

  • Modelling anaerobic co-digestion in Benchmark Simulation Model No. 2: Parameter estimation, substrate characterisation and plant-wide integration

    Magnus Arnell;Magnus Arnell;Sergi Astals;Linda Åmand;Damien J. Batstone

Frequent Co-Authors

Damien J. Batstone
Damien J. Batstone University of Queensland
Sergi Astals
Sergi Astals University of Barcelona
Gene W. Tyson
Gene W. Tyson Queensland University of Technology
Korneel Rabaey
Korneel Rabaey Ghent University
Peer M. Schenk
Peer M. Schenk University of Queensland
Qilin Wang
Qilin Wang University of Technology Sydney
Philip Hugenholtz
Philip Hugenholtz University of Queensland
Paul Lant
Paul Lant University of Queensland
Zhiguo Yuan
Zhiguo Yuan City University of Hong Kong
Guangming Jiang
Guangming Jiang University of Wollongong

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