Dr Victoria Outram
Strathclyde Chancellor's Fellow
Chemical and Process Engineering
Personal statement
Personal statement
My research interests lie at the intersection of chemical engineering and microbiology, focusing on fermentation process development to facilitate more sustainable manufacturing routes. This includes research into fermentation intensification to increase the process productivity and efficiency, and using process design to overcome microbial limitations such as toxicity and inhibitions. My experience includes the development of continuous fermentation processes, novel bioreactor design, utilisation of waste or industry side-streams for fermentation, integrated bioprocesses including in situ product recovery.
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Publications
- Enhancing the stability of continuous fermentations for platform chemical production
- Outram Victoria, Yiakoumetti Andrew, Green Charlotte, King Rebekah, Ward John, Conradie Alex
- iScience Vol 28 (2025)
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.isci.2025.111786
- Continuous butanol fermentation with submerged ceramic membranes
- Outram Victoria, Lipnizki Frank
- Euromembrane 2024 (2024)
- Intensified butanol production through optimisation of integrated membrane bioreactor operation
- Outram Victoria, Lipnizki Frank
- European Congress on Biotechnology, pp. 230 (2024)
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nbt.2024.08.414
- Current perspectives on acidogenic fermentation to produce volatile fatty acids from waste
- Ramos-Suarez Maria, Zhang Yue, Outram Victoria
- Reviews in Environmental Science and Biotechnology Vol 20, pp. 439-478 (2021)
- https://doi.org/10.1007/s11157-021-09566-0
- Solvent-free membrane extraction of volatile fatty acids from acidogenic fermentation
- Outram Victoria, Zhang Yue
- Bioresource Technology Vol 270, pp. 400-408 (2018)
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biortech.2018.09.057
- Applied in situ product recovery in ABE fermentation
- Outram Victoria, Lalander Carl Axel, Lee Jonathan GM, Davies E Timothy, Harvey Adam P
- Biotechnology Progress Vol 33, pp. 563-579 (2017)
- https://doi.org/10.1002/btpr.2446
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Research Interests
- Fermentation processes and intensification
- New fermentation strategies for faster research and development
- Bio-based chemical production via fermentation
- Utilisation of ‘waste’ or industry side-streams as feedstocks for fermentation
Professional Activities
- DESIGNAE WG2 in-situ meeting - Kaunas
- Participant
- 29/7/2026
- KTH Royal Institute of Technology
- Visiting researcher
- 20/5/2026
- 1st Scottish Engineering Biology Research Community Meeting
- Speaker
- 7/5/2026
- 1st DESIGNAE International Conference
- Participant
- 26/3/2026
- 1st DESIGNAE International Conference
- Participant
- 25/3/2026
- IBioIC Annual Conference
- Participant
- 10/3/2026
Projects
- Food waste to bio-based products through biological processing
- Outram, Victoria (Principal Investigator)
- 01-Jan-2026 - 31-Jan-2027
- COST Action CA24126 - Fostering Nature-Centred BioDESIGN to Explore Regenerative Futures (DESIGNAE)
- Outram, Victoria (Academic)
- COST Action running from 2025 -2029 focused on nature-centred biodesign to explore regenerative futures.
Co-lead for Work Group 2: Explore (Bio)materials and (Bio)Fabrication Techniques for Biodesign - 01-Jan-2025 - 30-Jan-2029
- UDLA 2527 University of Strathclyde | Paterson, Dylan
- Outram, Victoria (Principal Investigator) Chen, Yi-Chieh (Co-investigator) Paterson, Dylan (Research Co-investigator)
- 01-Jan-2025 - 01-Jan-2029
- Lou Beaumes - Novel membrane bioreactor for continuous processing of biofuels and biochemicals
- Outram, Victoria (Principal Investigator)
- Co-supervisor for PhD student, Lou Beaumes in the Division of Chemical Engineering at Lund University.
- 01-Jan-2024
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Contact
Dr
Victoria
Outram
Strathclyde Chancellor's Fellow
Chemical and Process Engineering
Email: victoria.outram@strath.ac.uk
Tel: Unlisted