Model the process.
Connect unit operations, balances, equipment, utilities, and data.
Industrial process modeling · Bioengineering · AI
I model industrial processes for scale.
I’m Katharina Julia Brenner, an industrial process modeler and bioengineer. I model mass, energy, equipment, utilities, cost, and risk.
What I connect
Inputs → balances →
scenarios → decisions.
Industrial process models
Plant-wide simulation
Bioengineering
Digital twins
Process scale-up
TEA & LCA
Services
Process models for scale-up
and facility decisions.
For research, biotechnology, and manufacturing teams.
Compare scale-up options.
Test bottlenecks, scenarios, cost, and environmental impact.
Build the tool.
Deliver a simulation, dashboard, or digital-twin prototype.
Custom laboratory software
Custom laboratory software.
Experiment planning, data capture, calculations, dashboards, exports, and instrument integrations.
Individual solutionsFrom €5,000
Explore laboratory software
Contact me for Industrial process modeling · Custom laboratory software · Scale-up and facility decisions · Digital twins and AI · Research and technical collaboration
Explore services
Selected stations
Selected institutions.
Now / Katharina
Process modeling,
bioengineering, software.
I work across process design, bioengineering, mathematics, statistics, and implementation.
Currently
- Research
- PhD researcher at TUM, modeling industrial biomanufacturing systems.
- Building
- Plant-wide models, digital twins, and decision tools for process scale-up.
- Open to
- Industrial modeling projects, research collaborations, and technical ventures.
01 / Selected work
Selected
projects.
Process models, software, research, and public tools.
Inputs, unit operations, balances, utilities, economics, and scale — connected in one model.
Explore selected work →Cultivated meat process model
Plant-wide mass and energy balances from media preparation to packaged biomass.
BioTA: Bioreactor Technical Analysis
Python workflow for time-dependent yield prediction and operating-point search.
Acatian
Browser-based process simulation for flowsheets, mass and energy balances, equipment, economics, and scenario analysis.
Visit websiteAI Sovereignty & Bioeconomy
Public platform for the Stanford × TUM × Berkeley bioeconomy hackathon.
BioProcess Simulator
S. cerevisiae simulator for batch, fed-batch, and continuous operation.
Microcarrier Planner
Calculates carrier surface, inoculum, expansion, Njs, shear limit, and harvest yield.
Jumpy
A tiny browser game I vibe-coded for fun: help Jumpy hop through a laboratory obstacle course.
02 / Point of view
I model complete bioprocess systems.
Unit operations, utilities, equipment, economics, and data belong in one model.
I identify scale limits and compare design options.
01
Understand
Mechanistic thinking from unit operation to facility.
02
Model
Mass, energy, time, cost, and uncertainty.
03
Build
Interactive tools, digital twins, and interfaces.
04
Translate
Technical evidence for design choices.
Analytical foundation / 00
Assumptions stay explicit.
Mathematics, statistics, and data science guide model structure, uncertainty, and validation.
Mathematics
Structure, optimization, and mechanistic reasoning.
Statistics
Uncertainty, inference, and validation.
Data Science
Data preparation, models, and implementation.
03 / Publications
Peer-reviewed
research.
Process models, bioreactors, scale-up, and manufacturing.
2026
Featured publication · Frontiers in Nutrition
Decoding cultured meat manufacturing: a full process model to identify scale-up bottlenecks
Plant-wide mass and energy balances with four manufacturing scenarios.
02
Applied Food Research · 2026
Waste stream valorization in cultured meat manufacturing: Pathways toward circularity and sustainability
10.1016/j.afres.2026.101928
03
Future Foods · 2025
Bioreactor parameters and systems for cultured meat production
10.1016/j.fufo.2025.100796
04
Ernährungs Umschau · 2025
Technology and processes for cultivated meat: Fundamentals, challenges, and perspectives
10.4455/eu.2025.025
Industrial scale-up
Facilities, bioreactors, utilities, and bottlenecks.
Process models & AI
Mechanistic models, data models, and AI.
04 / Open source
Open-source
projects.
Public models, tools, and analysis code.
06 / Contact
Process modeling · Scale-up · Technical collaboration
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or lab tool?
Send the process, scale, data, and decision.