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Overview

Robbert Kleerebezem is affiliated with Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands. Their research primarily focuses on environmental science and engineering, with a strong emphasis on pollution, biomaterials, biomedical engineering, molecular biology, and environmental engineering.

The research themes Kleerebezem engages with include:

  • Biodegradable polymer synthesis and properties
  • Microplastics and plastic pollution
  • Microbial metabolic engineering and bioproduction
  • Biofuel production and bioconversion
  • Anaerobic digestion and biogas production
  • Wastewater treatment and nitrogen removal
  • Microbial fuel cells and bioremediation

Kleerebezem has published articles in a number of scientific journals, with recurring contributions to:

  • Biotechnology and Bioengineering
  • Bioresource Technology
  • Environmental Science & Technology
  • Water Research
  • Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology

Some of their recent significant publications include:

  • Purple phototrophic bacteria for resource recovery: Challenges and opportunities, 2020, Biotechnology Advances
  • Scaling-up microbial community-based polyhydroxyalkanoate production: status and challenges, 2021, Bioresource Technology
  • Selecting for lactic acid producing and utilising bacteria in anaerobic enrichment cultures, 2020, Biotechnology and Bioengineering
  • From waste to self-healing concrete: A proof-of-concept of a new application for polyhydroxyalkanoate, 2020, Resources Conservation and Recycling
  • Direct and Indirect Effects of Increased CO2 Partial Pressure on the Bioenergetics of Syntrophic Propionate and Butyrate Conversion, 2020, Environmental Science & Technology

Kleerebezem frequently collaborates with several co-authors, including:

  • Mark C.M. van Loosdrecht
  • Alan Werker
  • Ruizhe Pei
  • Chris M. Vermeer
  • Jelmer Tamis

Best Publications

  • Nitrous oxide emission during wastewater treatment.

    Marlies J. Kampschreur;Hardy Temmink;Robbert Kleerebezem;Mike S.M. Jetten;Mike S.M. Jetten

  • Full scale performance of the aerobic granular sludge process for sewage treatment.

    M. Pronk;M.K. de Kreuk;B. de Bruin;P. Kamminga

  • Mixed culture biotechnology for bioenergy production

    Robbert Kleerebezem;Mark C M van Loosdrecht

  • Physiological and kinetic characterization of a suspended cell anammox culture

    Tommaso Lotti;R. Kleerebezem;C. Lubello;M.C.M. van Loosdrecht

  • Enrichment of a mixed bacterial culture with a high polyhydroxyalkanoate storage capacity.

    Katja Johnson;Yang Jiang;Robbert Kleerebezem;Gerard Muyzer

  • Nitrification expanded: discovery, physiology and genomics of a nitrite-oxidizing bacterium from the phylum Chloroflexi.

    D.Y. Sorokin;S. Lücker;D. Vejmelkova;N.A. Kostrikina

  • Anaerobic digestion without biogas

    Robbert Kleerebezem;Bart Joosse;Rene Rozendal;Mark C. M. Van Loosdrecht

  • The effect of nitrite inhibition on the anammox process.

    T. Lotti;W.R.L. van der Star;R. Kleerebezem;C. Lubello

  • Effect of dynamic process conditions on nitrogen oxides emission from a nitrifying culture.

    Marlies J. Kampschreur;Nico C. G. Tan;Robbert Kleerebezem;Cristian Picioreanu

  • Nitrogen Removal by a Nitritation-Anammox Bioreactor at Low Temperature

    Ziye Hu;Tommaso Lotti;Merle de Kreuk;Robbert Kleerebezem

  • Simultaneous nitrogen and phosphate removal in aerobic granular sludge reactors operated at different temperatures.

    J.P. Bassin;R. Kleerebezem;M. Dezotti;M.C.M. van Loosdrecht

  • Pilot-scale evaluation of anammox-based mainstream nitrogen removal from municipal wastewater

    Tommaso Lotti;R. Kleerebezem;Z. Hu;B. Kartal

  • Competition and coexistence of sulfate-reducing bacteria, acetogens and methanogens in a lab-scale anaerobic bioreactor as affected by changing substrate to sulfate ratio

    Shabir A. Dar;Robbert Kleerebezem;Alfons J. M. Stams;J. Gijs Kuenen

  • Simultaneous partial nitritation and anammox at low temperature with granular sludge

    Tommaso Lotti;R. Kleerebezem;Z. Hu;B. Kartal

  • Modeling product formation in anaerobic mixed culture fermentations.

    Jorge Rodríguez;Jorge Rodríguez;Robbert Kleerebezem;Juan M. Lema;Mark C.M. van Loosdrecht

  • Integration of anammox into the aerobic granular sludge process for main stream wastewater treatment at ambient temperatures.

    M.-K.H. Winkler;R. Kleerebezem;M.C.M. van Loosdrecht

  • Influence of the pH on (open) mixed culture fermentation of glucose: A chemostat study

    Margarida F. Temudo;Robbert Kleerebezem;Mark van Loosdrecht

  • Anammox growth on pretreated municipal wastewater.

    Tommaso Lotti;Robbert Kleerebezem;Charlotte van Erp Taalman Kip;Tim L G Hendrickx

  • Waste to resource: Converting paper mill wastewater to bioplastic.

    Yang Jiang;Leonie Marang;Jelmer Tamis;Mark C.M. van Loosdrecht

  • A Generalized Method for Thermodynamic State Analysis of Environmental Systems

    Robbert Kleerebezem;Mark C. M. Van Loosdrecht

  • Influence of the C/N ratio on the performance of polyhydroxybutyrate (PHB) producing sequencing batch reactors at short SRTs

    Katja Johnson;Robbert Kleerebezem;Mark C.M. van Loosdrecht

Frequent Co-Authors

M.C.M. van Loosdrecht
M.C.M. van Loosdrecht Delft University of Technology
Gatze Lettinga
Gatze Lettinga Wageningen University & Research
Gerard Muyzer
Gerard Muyzer University of Amsterdam
Dimitry Y. Sorokin
Dimitry Y. Sorokin Delft University of Technology
Mike S. M. Jetten
Mike S. M. Jetten Radboud University
Ben Abbas
Ben Abbas Delft University of Technology
Alfons J. M. Stams
Alfons J. M. Stams Wageningen University & Research
Cristian Picioreanu
Cristian Picioreanu King Abdullah University of Science and Technology
Márcia Dezotti
Márcia Dezotti Federal University of Rio de Janeiro
Juan M. Lema
Juan M. Lema University of Santiago de Compostela

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