IMPRESS-U Call Partner Search Tool

General Information

• Type: Partner looking for project
• Organisation: Institute of Agrophysics Polish Academy of Sciences
• Country: (PL)

Research area

• NSF calls:
  • EAGER
  • International Supplements
• Keywords:

  bioremediation entomoremediation biowaste valorization insects bioaccumulation

• Brief description of your expertise / expertise you are looking for:

  We are researching the use of insects (Hermetia illucens, Tenebrio molitor, Zophobas morio and others) for: environmental cleaning (entomoremediation); bioaccumulation of heavy metals and rare earth elements; entomodegradation (e.g. plastic eating insects); valorization of different kind of waste biomass with the use of insects; use of insect frass as fertilizer. Moreover, we are looking for new possibilities of upcycling waste generated during insect rearing, such as for biogas, biochar and chitin production. We have also scientific background concerning plant abiotic stresses and measuring antioxidant enzymes activities in relations to it.

• Brief description of your project / the project you would like to join:

  All projects in which we can use insect to utilise/valorize waste biomass. Upcycling or in other words revalorization of waste to insect biomass create the possibilities to use its protein, fat, chitin/chitosan to obtain e.g. food or feed, biodiesel, sorbents etc.

Piotr Bulak

• Organisation: Institute of Agrophysics Polish Academy of Sciences
• Position: Assistant professor
• E-mail: p.bulak@ipan.lublin.pl