Systems Biology (Volume 6) – eBook

About The Author

Gregory Stephanopoulos

Dr. Gregory Stephanopoulos is the W. H. Dow Professor of Chemical Engineering and Director of the MIT Metabolic Engineering Laboratory at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT, USA). He is also a Harvard Medical School Bioengineering Instructor (since 1997).

The American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) (Wilhelm, Walker, and Founders awards), the American Chemical Society (ACS), the Society of Industrial Microbiology (SIM), BIO (Washington Carver Award), the American Association of Engineering Societies' John Fritz Medal, and others have all honoured him. In 2003, he was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in the United States, and in 2014, he was chosen as President of AIChE.

Jens Nielsen

Dr. Jens Nielsen earned his Ph.D. in Biochemical Engineering from the Danish Technical University (DTU) in 1989, and went on to create his own research group and be promoted to full Professor in 1998. In 1995-1996, he was a Fulbright visiting professor at MIT.

Dr. Nielsen established and led the Center for Microbial Biotechnology at DTU.
He was hired as a Professor and Director at Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden in 2008. Jens is a member of various academies, including the National Academy of Engineering in the United States and the Royal Swedish Academy of Science. He has received numerous Danish and international prizes, including the Nature Mentor Award.

Sang Yup Lee

Dr. Sang Yup Lee is a Distinguished Professor at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology's Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering (KAIST). He is the Director of the Center for Systems and Synthetic Biotechnology, the BioProcess Engineering Research Center, and the Bioinformatics Research Center.
He was honoured with the National Order of Merit, the Merck Metabolic Engineering Award, and the Elmer Gaden Award, among others.

Lee is the Editor-in-Chief of the Biotechnology Journal and serves on the editorial boards of a number of other publications. He is a member of the President's Advisory Committee on Science and Technology at the moment (Korea).

Stefan Hohmann

Professor Stefan Hohmann is the head of Chalmers University's Department of Biology and Biological Engineering (Sweden). He earned his Ph.D. in 1987 and became a professor at the Technische Universitt Darmstadt (Germany), where he researched biology and microbiology.

He was a visiting professor at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (Belgium) and the University of the Orange Free State (South Africa) before becoming a professor at the University of Gothenburg in 1999, where he remained until his transfer to Chalmers University in 2015.