5月30日学术报告-The vision of a sustainable bioeconomy in an era of $50 oil

Dr. Gregory Stephanopoulos is currently the W.H. Dow Professor of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology at MIT and Instructor of Bioengineering at Harvard Medical School (1997-). He received his degrees in Chemical Engineering from the national technical University of Athens (BS, 1973) and the University of Minnesota (PhD, 1978). His research interest focuses on metabolic engineering, the engineering of microbes for the production of fuels and chemicals. He is presently the editor-in-chief of Metabolic Engineering and serves on the Editorial Boards of 7 scientific journals and the Advisory Boards of 5 ChE departments. He has delivered more than 25 named lectures and been recognized with numerous awards (Dreyfus, Excellence in Teaching-Caltech, AIChE Technical Achievement Award, PYI, AIChE-FPBE Division Award, M.J. Johnson Award of ACS, Merck Award in Metabolic Engineering, the R.H. Wilhelm Award in Chemical Reaction Engineering of AIChE, Amgen Award in Biochemical Engineering). In 2002 he was elected to the AIChE Board of Directors, in 2003 to the National Academy of Engineering (NAE). Professor Stephanopoulos has taught undergraduate and graduate courses of the core of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology at Caltech and MIT and co-authored the first textbook on Metabolic Engineering. He is presently directing a research group of approximately 25 researchers at MIT.