past events

2019

• Workshop: “Tempeh, an adventure in traditional fungal fermentation” (Innovative Citizen, Saturday 16 of November 2019)

2018

• Collaboration contract with MOGU S.r.l. for the scaling-up of their fungal biomaterial production facility in Inarzo, Italy (March 2018)
• Consultancy agreement with Phool.co in Kanpur, India for the development of a fungal packing material grown on flower waste from Hindu temples (Jan. 2018)

2017

• Workshop: “Raspberry Pi Jam: Electronic Sensors in Biofabrication” (Tech Valley Center of Gravity, Troy NY, USA, May 9, 2017)
• Visit to the SONITA Đông Trùng Hạ Thảo Cordyceps Farm in Vietnam (Quảng Ngãi, Vietnam, Dec. 2017)

2016

• Book presentation: “Fungicultura, cultiva bolets a casa” (Casal Jaume I d’Ontinyent, Jan. 22, 2016)
• Book presentation: “Fungicultura, cultiva bolets a casa” (Casa dels Joves, Orxa, Jan. 24, 2016)
• Book presentation: “Fungicultura, cultiva bolets a casa” (Casal Jaume I de Gandia, Feb. 5, 2016
• Book presentation: “Fungicultura, cultiva bolets a casa” (Ca la Mera, Ontinyent, Feb. 6, 2016)
• Workshop: “Practical workshop on mushroom cultivation – Taller pràctic de cultiu de bolets” (Casal Jaume I d’Ontinyent, Feb. 13, 2016)
• Workshop: “GROW MUSHROOMS, for food, research and leisure” (Berlin, Germany, Feb. 19-20, 2016)
• R&D contract with Ecovative Design LLC, Green Island NY, USA (March 2016)
• Workshop: “Fungal material biofabrication with Ecovative Design LLC” (Troy Mini Maker Faire, Troy NY, USA, Aug. 27, 2016)

2015

• Workshop: “Grow your own oyster mushrooms! Turn your waste into mushrooms“ (Dijksgracht 6, Amsterdam, Jan. 2015)
• Workshop: “Magic mushrooms, get high on your own supply!” (Dijksgracht 6, Amsterdam, Jan. 2015)
• Workshop: “Oyster Mushroom Workshop” (Dijksgracht 6, Amsterdam, Feb. 2015)
• Supported my colleague Ni Nan on her project Coffee2Mushroom, designing a special kitchen to recycle coffee grounds by growing mushrooms (Jan. and Feb. 2015)
• Visit to Mycophilia (Amsterdam), a new and innovative urban mushroom farm founded by the mycologist Wouter Hassing (Feb. 2015)
• Workshop: “The Art and Science of Mushroom Cultivation“(Halle [Saale], Germany, Feb. 16-18, 2015)
• Workshop: “Applied mycoremediation” (ADM, Amsterdam, Mar. 2015)
• Workshop: “PF Tek reborn: grow magic mushrooms in your kitchen” (Molli Chaoot, Amsterdam, Mar. 2015)
• Special training to start a new mushroom farm in Gent, Belgium (Mar. 2015)
• Started a collection of mycelium cultures in the Waag Society together with my colleague Eli Brouwer (Amsterdam, Mar. 2015)
• Workshop: “Die Kunst der Pilzzucht” (Dezentrale Dortmund, April 10-12, 2015)
• Workshop: “Curso práctico intensivo de cultivo de setas” (I.E.S. La Dehesilla, Cercedilla, Madrid, May 30-31, 2015)
• Workshop: “Curso de Cultivo de Hongos Comestibles” (Medinacelli, Spain, Jun. 5-7, 2015)
• Workshop: “How to grow your own mushrooms” (Fungi Futuri, Eindhoven, The Netherlands, Jun. 19, 2015)
• Visit to the installations of the spawn producer Mycelia BVBA in Belgium (Jun. 10, 2015)
• Visit to the German mushroom farm Biolandhof Speisepilze Schmöning (Haltern am See, Germany, Jun. 11, 2015)
• Supported my colleague Lukas Pressler on his bachelor final project “mobiLEB“, designing a portable biolab (presented on Jul. 2015)
• Lecture: “Els bolets: biologia i cultiu” (Escola d’Estiu Via Sapiens, Ontinyent, Spain, Jul. 2015)
• Research Fellowship at Tyroler Glückspilze (Innsbruck, Austria, Aug. 2015)
• Biofabrication Workshop, Innovative Citizen Festival, 17, 18 and 19 Sept. 2015, Dortmund, Germany
• Asian Mycological Congress 2015, Goa, India
• Field work in Sri Lanka and installation of an experimental mushroom farm, November 2015
• Lecture: “Towards a Fungal-Human Symbiosis: Surviving the future” (Prototype Nature, Essen, Germany, Dec. 9, 2015)
• Workshop: “Biofabrication with fungi and bacteria” (Innovative Citizen Festival, Dec. 17-19, 2015)
• Book presentation and practical introductory workshop “Fungicultura, cultiva bolets a casa” (Mercat de la Terra de Pego, Dec. 19, 2015)

2014

• Workshop: “Growing Magic Mushrooms” (Bio-Me, Amsterdam, Sept. 2014)
• Workshop: “Grow your own mushrooms!“ (Mediamatic’s Fabriek, Amsterdam, Nov. 15, 2014)
• Workshop: “Grow your own mushrooms!” (Mediamatic’s Fabriek, Amsterdam, Dec. 2014)
• Workshop: “Mushrooms – Züchten, was man nicht kaufen kann“ (Innovative Citizen 2014, Dortmund, Sept. 27 -Oct. 02)
• Assisted the workshop of Eric Klarenbeek: “3D Printing with Living Organisms” (Mediamatic’s Fabriek, Amsterdam, Nov. 2014)
• Assisted the workshop of Phil Ross: “Ganoderma Master-class” (Bio-Me, Amsterdam, Sept. 2014)

2011

• IV Truffle Conference, Vistabella del Maestrat
  Organized by: Universitat Jaume I (UJI), Valencian Country.
  Lecture: “Mycorrhiza in vitro cultures for micropropagation technology”

2010

• Mycological annual conference, Vistabella del Maestrat,
  Organized by: Universitat Jaume I (UJI), Valencian Country.
  Lecture: “Technical Fungiculture; cultivation of edible mushrooms”
• III Truffle Conference in Vistabella del Maestrat,
  Organized by: Universitat Jaume I (UJI), Valencian Country.
  Lecture: “Lactarius sp. cultivation as an alternative to the truffle”