Martin Malthe Borch

Country: Denmark
Area of Expertise: Biological Engineering

Look up. How much living biology can you see right now? Only a house plant, why isn’t there anything else alive? Imagine a living lampshade of lichen that changes shape and colour the with season and the indoor climate, and that you can share it with friends for them to grow their own. Imagine a house with bioluminating microalgae tubes in walls and ceiling. At CIID, Martin is working to integrate the complexity and evolutionary capability of living biology, plants, insects, fungi, bacteria and microalgae in design and architecture.

As a Master in Biological Engineering, Martin Malthe Borch is working as a researcher at DTU with bioreactor engineering and sustainable biorefinery processes. He is working to integrate new media technologies, knowledge sharing, open access and citizen science in the field of research and natural science, to him it’s all about having fun and learning by playing. He co-founded BiologiGaragen.org – an open space for citizen science in biology and is in the board of “Energi Højskolen” the first Danish folk high school based on natural science.