Prof. Stephen Wallace University of Edinburgh, UK

Prof. Stephen Wallace is Professor and Chair of Chemical Biotechnology at the University of Edinburgh and Director of the Carbon-Loop Sustainable Biomanufacturing Hub. His research combines synthetic chemistry and synthetic biology to engineer microorganisms for the sustainable production of chemicals from renewable feedstocks and waste. He completed an MChem in... read moreMedicinal and Biological Chemistry at the University of Edinburgh and a DPhil in Organic Chemistry at the University of Oxford, followed by research positions at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Harvard University and the University of Cambridge. He joined the University of Edinburgh in 2017 and was appointed Professor in 2023.