Interview with Dr. Andreas Walter

On 24 September 2021, Ulysseus held a series of video-interviews with six Ulysseus scientists on circular economy, climate change, green transition, renewable energy and waste management all of them, closely related to the European Green Deal.

The European Researchers’ Night — an annual event coordinated by Marie Skłodowska Curie Actions (MSCA) which aims at bringing research and researchers closer to the public and to showcase the impact of their work on people’s daily life. The initiative will combine face-to-face and online activities celebrated across 371 cities in Europe.

Expert in biotechnology and food engineering at the Management Center Innsbruck (MCI).

He obtained his PhD from the University of Innsbruck, Austria (June, 2018) in optimizing waste management systems. Since 2014, he works with insects, by investigating the potential of Hermetia illucens for waste valorization. He was co-applicant of the FWF project P 26444-B22 “Waste products as a source of protein-rich feedstuff”, where he is substantially involved in project administration as well as in research. In the course of project P 26444-B22, he is cooperating with national partners (the Department of Microbiology, the Department of Sociology and the Department of Environmental Engineering at the University of Innsbruck and the INSECTORY GmbH in Vienna) as well as international ones (the Ulm University in Germany and the The State University of Santa Cruz in Brazil).