Prof. Hongwu Ma Tianjin Institute of Industrial Biotechnology, China

Prof. Hongwu Ma got his Ph.D from Tianjin University, China in 2001. He then worked in German Research Centre for Biotechnology (GBF) as a postdoc and moved to the University of Edinburgh at the end of 2005 as a senior research fellow. He was appointed as a professor at Tianjin... read moreInstitute of Industrial Biotechnology, Chinese Academy of Sciences at Dec 2011. He has been working on various research fields including reconstruction and analysis of genome scale metabolic networks and cellular models, design of metabolic pathways and metabolic engineering targets, enzyme function prediction and design using AI technologies and development of biological databases and web tools. He has published over 100 papers in international journals and receives over 5000 citations.