Prof. Francois Baneyx University of Washington, USA

Francois Baneyx is the Charles W.H. Matthaei Professor of Chemical Engineering at the University of Washington. He currently serves as Acting Director of the University of Washington Center for Nanotechnology, Site Director of the Pacific Northwest node of the NSF National Nanotechnology Infrastructure Network, and Co-Director of the NSF Genetically... read moreEngineered Materials Science and Engineering Center. Dr. Baneyx received his PhD in chemical engineering from the University of Texas at Austin and is the recipient of a Whitaker Young Investigator Award and a NSF CAREER award. He has been a faculty member at the University of Washington since 1992. His research interests are in the areas of protein folding, protein expression, protein structure-function relationships and bio-nanotechnology.