Photosynthetic electron focusing technology for direct efficient biohydrogen production from solar energy

Project Information

PhotoSynH2

Grant agreement ID: 101070948

DOI

10.3030/101070948

EC signature date 8 July 2022

Start date 1 October 2022

End date 30 September 2027

Funded under

• The European Innovation Council (EIC)

Total cost

€ 4 194 947,63

EU contribution

€ 4 194 947,50

Coordinated by

AGENCIA ESTATAL CONSEJO SUPERIOR DE INVESTIGACIONES CIENTIFICAS
Spain

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Deliverables

Documents, reports (3)

Plan for Dissemination and Exploitation Including Communication Activities
Website, logo and internal portal

Website, logo and internal portal, incl. information on social media links

Report on suitable large-scale photobioreactor locations in EU including all their demands to allow for certification

Data Management Plan (2)

Data management plan
RP2 update of the Data Management Plan

Updated DMP plan at the end of each subsequent reporting period

Demonstrators, pilots, prototypes (1)

Photobioreactor for WP1 and WP2 installed at CSIC location and functional

Publications

Peer reviewed articles (13)

qSanger: Quantification of Genetic Variants in Bacterial Cultures by Sanger Sequencing

Author(s): S. Prakash, A. Racovita, T. Petrucci, R. Galizi and A. Jaramillo
Published in: BioDesign Research, Issue 7, 2023, ISSN 2693-1257
Publisher: American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).
DOI: 10.34133/bdr.0007

Advances and Challenges in Biohydrogen Production by Photosynthetic Microorganisms

Author(s): Cecilia Faraloni; Giuseppe Torzillo; Francesco Balestra; Isabela Calegari Moia; Raffaella Margherita Zampieri; Natalia Jiménez-Conejo; Eleftherios Touloupakis
Published in: Energies, Issue 18(9), 2319, 2025, ISSN 1996-1073
Publisher: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI)
DOI: 10.3390/EN18092319

Microbial Cell Factories

Author(s): Conrad Schumann; Amit Kugler; Bhavik Shah; Gustav Berggren; Henrik Land; Cecilia Blikstad; Karin Stensjö
Published in: Microbial Cell Factories, 2024, ISSN 1475-2859
Publisher: BioMed Central
DOI: 10.1101/2024.12.20.629387

Dark Anaerobic Conditions Induce a Fast Induction of the Xanthophyll Cycle in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii When Exposed to High Light

Author(s): Cecilia Faraloni, Eleftherios Touloupakis, Giuseppe Torzillo
Published in: Microorganisms, Issue 12, 2025, ISSN 2076-2607
Publisher: MDPI AG
DOI: 10.3390/MICROORGANISMS12112264

Outlook on Synthetic Biology-Driven Hydrogen Production: Lessons from Algal Photosynthesis Applied to Cyanobacteria

Author(s): Alfonso Jaramillo, Alessandro Satta, Filipe Pinto, Cecilia Faraloni, Graziella Chini Zittelli, Ana Margarita Silva Benavides, Giuseppe Torzillo, Conrad Schumann, Jorge Fernández Méndez, Gustav Berggren, Peter Lindblad, Maddalena Parente, Serena Esposito, Marcello Diano
Published in: Energy & Fuels, Issue 39, 2025, ISSN 0887-0624
Publisher: American Chemical Society (ACS)
DOI: 10.1021/ACS.ENERGYFUELS.4C04772

Journal of the American Chemical Society

Author(s): Fasano, Andrea; Baffert, Carole; Schumann, Conrad; Berggren, Gustav; Birrell, James; Fourmond, Vincent; Léger, Christophe
Published in: Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2024, ISSN 0002-7863
Publisher: American Chemical Society
DOI: 10.1021/JACS.3C10693

Probing the Role of Accessory FeS Clusters in Putative Sensory Group D [FeFe] Hydrogenase: Influence of the C-Terminal [4Fe-4S] Cluster on the Reactivity of <i>Tam</i> HydS

Author(s): Conrad Schumann, Maximilian Böhm, Prasenjit Bhowmik, Ping Huang, Princess R. Cabotaje, Henrik Land, Gustav Berggren
Published in: Biochemistry, Issue 65, 2026, ISSN 0006-2960
Publisher: American Chemical Society (ACS)
DOI: 10.1021/ACS.BIOCHEM.5C00784

Frontiers in Microbiology

Author(s): Schumann, C., Méndez, J.F., Berggren, G. and Lindblad, P.
Published in: Frontiers in Microbiology, Issue 14, 2023, ISSN 1664-302X
Publisher: Frontiers Media
DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2023.1179607

Growth and hydrogen production of the cyanobacterium Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803 in a marine salt medium

Author(s): Gergely Ernő Lakatos; Bernardo Cicchi; Francesco Balestra; Anna Pugliese; Eleftherios Touloupakis; Graziella Chini Zittelli; Giuseppe Torzillo; Cecilia Faraloni
Published in: Frontiers in Marine Science, Issue 12, 1654421, 2026, ISSN 2296-7745
Publisher: Frontiers Media SA
DOI: 10.3389/FMARS.2025.1654421

Synergistic Effects of Light and Salinity on Carotenoid and Biomass Composition of Synechocystis PCC6803 Cultures

Author(s): Cecilia Faraloni; Gergely Ernő Lakatos; Francesco Balestra; Anna Pugliese; Graziella Chini Zittelli; Bernardo Cicchi; Eleftherios Touloupakis; Giuseppe Torzillo
Published in: Marine Drugs, Issue 24(2), 83, 2026, ISSN 1660-3397
Publisher: MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/MD24020083

Engineering compact bacterial combinatorial promoters for two-input chemical AND switching

Author(s): Satya Prakash, Alfonso Jaramillo
Published in: Journal of Biological Engineering, 2026, ISSN 1754-1611
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
DOI: 10.64898/2026.03.25.714203

Indications for a universal hydrogen catalysis mechanism in [FeFe]-hydrogenases of different phylogenetic groups

Author(s): Moritz Senger; Conrad Schumann; Princess R. Cabotaje; Afridi Zamader; Ping Huang; Henrik Land; Gustav Berggren
Published in: Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, Issue 27(18), 9864-9875, 2025, ISSN 1463-9084
Publisher: Royal Society of Chemistry
DOI: 10.1039/D5CP00412H

Solar bioreactors used for the industrial production of microalgae

Author(s): Jiří Masojídek · Richard Lhotský · Karolína Štěrbová · Graziella Chini Zittelli Giuseppe Torzillo
Published in: Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology, Issue 107, 2023, ISSN 1432-0614
Publisher: SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s00253-023-12733-8

Other (6)

Deliverable D 6.4: Report on sustainable large- scale photobioreactor locations in the EU including their demands to allow for certification

Author(s): Stefano Canziani, Lavinia Plataroti
Publisher: Zenodo
DOI: 10.5281/ZENODO.15772415

T7 phage-assisted evolution of riboswitches using error-prone replication and dual selection

Author(s): Eduardo Goicoechea, Alfonso Jaramillo
Published in: bioRxiv, 2023, ISSN 2692-8205
Publisher: Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
DOI: 10.1101/2023.01.11.523572

Plan for dissemination and exploitation

Author(s): Alfonso Jaramillo
Publisher: Zenodo
DOI: 10.5281/ZENODO.15762612

Photobioreactor for WP1 and WP2 installed at CSIC location and functional

Author(s): Marcello Diano
Published in: 2025
Publisher: Zenodo
DOI: 10.5281/ZENODO.15768963

PhotoSynH2 Website, logo and internal portal

Author(s): Jaramillo, Alfonso
Publisher: PhotoSynH2
DOI: 10.5281/ZENODO.15762582

PhotoSynH2 data management plan

Author(s): Alfonso Jaramillo
Publisher: Zenodo
DOI: 10.5281/ZENODO.15762665