With the 'DFF-International Postdoctoral Grant', Independent Research Fund Denmark aims to strengthen the international mobility of young researchers while also contributing to the development of their research competencies.
Ginevra Giangeri receives the grant for her project 'EMERGE - Electroactive Microbial co-culturEs foR methane Generation in Electrosynthesis systems'. EMERGE is working on an innovative solution to reduce CO2 emissions by capturing and recycling the gas to create methane (CH4), a useful fuel, in a sustainable way. The project uses microbial electrosynthesis systems, which rely on special microbes to convert CO2 into methane using electricity. This process supports the idea of a circular bioeconomy—reusing resources instead of wasting them—while also helping to protect the environment. The key to EMERGE's approach is to combine biology and chemistry to develop stable communities of bacteria and archaea (another type of microbe) that work better together.
