meet the team
Principal Investigator

Dr Leonardo Rios
Lecturer (Assistant Professor) of Synthetic Biology and Biochemical Engineering
Leonardo was awarded a lectureship in 2017 at the Engineering School of the University of Edinburgh where he leads his research group at the...
PhDs students

Laura E. Walls
PhD Student: Bioprocess Engineering
Laura focuses on the development of an industrially relevant, scalable bioprocess for the production of high value isoprenoids. Laura is using...

Behnaz Nowrouzi
PhD Student: Metabolic Engineering
Behnaz is focusing on genome engineering using plants P450 in yeast. These enzymes are promiscuous and therefore, minimizing by-products, while...

Nestor Jonguitud
PhD Student: Microbial Consortia
Nestor came all the way from Tabasco, Mexico to pursue his PhD focusing on engineering microbial cells to work synergistically to produce natural...

Jorge Santoyo
PhD Student: Integrated Bioprocessing
Integrated Bioprocess design, developing novel high throughput recovery methods of high value natural products from cell factories using novel...

Koray Malci
PhD Student: Metabolic Engineering, Automation and Diagnostics
Koray is focusing on microbial cell factory design using novel genome engineering tools and automation platforms to produce high value...