Patricia Pereira Aguilar

Senior Scientist – Institute of Bioprocess Science and Engineering at BOKU

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Patricia Pereira Aguilar is a Senior Scientist (tenure-track) at the Institute of Bioprocess Science and Engineering (IBSE) at the BOKU University, Vienna, Austria. In 2020, she completed her PhD. degree in “Biomolecular Technology of Proteins” (BioTop) at BOKU, under the supervision of Professor Alois Jungbauer. After that she started working as a Postdoctoral Researcher at acib (Austrian Centre of Industrial Biotechnology) and since March 2026 as a Senior Scientist and Research Group Lead at BOKU University. Her research focus on the development of downstream processes and analytical tools for enveloped bionanoparticles for vaccine and gene therapy applications, such as virus-like particles, viruses and extracellular vesicles. Her expertise includes chromatography, filtration and ultracentrifugation techniques and biochemical and biophysical assays for bionanoparticle, protein and nucleic acid quantification and characterization.