NUI Galway launches biofuels research lab

NUI Galway has launched a new laboratory to research the generation of biofuels from organic waste.

Professor Piet Lens, a leading expert in environmental biotechnology, will lead a team of 25 PhD and post-doctoral researchers in the university's Department of Microbiology Programme, ‘Innovative Energy Technologies for Bioenergy, Biofuels and a Sustainable Irish Bioeconomy’.