For several years, Martin has worked with global business development within Novozymes, where he was responsible for commercializing new biotech platforms to new markets.

Responsibilities included building global partnerships and strategy development & execution.

Martin has also worked for Boston Consulting Group in both Europe and Australia and on projects involving M&A due diligence, strategy development, operational effectiveness, and PMI management.

Finally, Martin has execution and management experience from roles such as Head of Sales within Hilti Denmark and as a First Lieutenant of the Reserve in the Danish Army.

Hans did his doctoral and postdoctoral training in biotechnology at the NNF Center for Biosustainability at the Technical University of Denmark with additional training from Harvard University in the group of Professor George Church and UC Berkeley / the Joint Bio-Energy Institute in the group of professor Jay Keasling.

Hans holds personal awards for Exceptional Achievements (McKinsey & Co.), Top 10 European Biotech Entrepreneurs under 30, and has authored numerous scientific papers and patents. Hans co-founded Biosyntia and currently heads the R&D.

Markus holds a Ph.D. in Organic Chemistry from Linköping University (Sweden) and gained experience from the pharmaceutical industry at AstraZeneca and biopharmaceutical CDMO AGC Biologics. He served the biotech firm Glycom A/S for +10 years, where he was leading the R&D Downstream Process department bringing novel purification processes of Human Milk Oligosaccharides from R&D lab into commercial production.

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Cecilie is a business developer with broad experience in assessing commercial opportunities. She has spent the past 5 years year working with strategy and business development. Latest as part of the strategy team in GN, a Danish hearing aid manufacturer with global scale, working closely with the management team to develop the corporate strategy.

Before that, as a management consultant in QVARTZ (now part of Bain & Company) and the Boston Consulting Group. As a management consultant she has worked with strategy development, go-to-market assessments, commercial excellence and M&A for a range of Nordic companies.

She further holds a Master degree from the University of Copenhagen within Nanoscience.

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Joe has previously worked in the food industry for over 8 years. He holds a BSc in Nutraceuticals for Health and Nutrition from the Technical University of Ireland, and a diploma in Business Management from the Irish Management Institute. He worked with Kerry Taste and Nutrition for 8.5 years, initially as an R&D graduate, before later moving into a Key Account Manager role. He has worked across multiple technologies in his career, e.g. flavours, seasonings, yeasts, and with numerous regional and global customers.   His interests are in understanding market trends and helping our customers to launch innovative new solutions to the market.

Katie is a Senior Scientist, Fermentation at Biosyntia and holds a B.A. / B.Sc. (Hons) degree from the University of Auckland specializing in Biology and Geography.

Joining the Biosyntia team, Katie brings with her seven years of industrial microbial fermentation experience. Her prior experience has been at a microbial gas fermentation company, where she was based both in New Zealand and Chicago as well as completing industrial site work in China and Japan. There she was involved in leading novel process development, upscaling the process from 1 L to 16,000 L and troubleshooting new strain development. She has several published scientific articles and patents.

Katie is working on developing a fermentation process at Biosyntia, turning small scale results achieved by the molecular biology team into an industrially relevant and scalable fermentation-platform.

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Ayalah manage the day-to-day activities within the laboratory, like assuring effective operation of equipment and availability of required supplies and assisting researchers on project-related tasks.

Ayalah is educated Laboratory Technician from Professionshøjskolen Metropol.

David holds a M.Sc. Eng. Biotechnology from DTU and an Industrial Ph.D. in Synthetic Biology and Metabolic Engineering from DTU Biosustain, which he carried out in collaboration with Biosyntia. David is currently focused on building up the state-of-the-art strain construction capabilities at Biosyntia.

Jonathan is a chemistry graduate from University of Manchester, specialising in chromatography and mass spectrometry.

After Periklis completed a Diploma in Chemical Engineering with specialization in Food Technology, he decided to do a MSc in Biotechnology. In that way he can combine his Process Engineering skills with Molecular Biology as he strongly believe that the connection between the two fields is critical for the industry.

Susanne is a metabolic engineering scientist at Biosyntia and holds a Ph.D. in Molecular Biology from the University of Copenhagen.

Susanne has more than 10 years of experience in both Academia and Biotech Industry in engineering cell factories for production of both small molecules and secreted proteins.

Susanne is dedicated to developing biosustainable ways of production, and is currently focused on building the strain construction platform for yeast at Biosyntia.

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Silvia is a Research Scientist in Strain Engineering and screening at Biosyntia. She holds a B. Sc. degree in Biotechnology at the University of Padua and a M. Sc. in Sustainable Biotechnology at Aalborg University. Silvia is enthusiastic about finding microbial solutions to relevant environmental issues. She has experience in the implementation of microbial cell factories for the sustainable production of high value products.

Juliet obtained her Ph.D. in Pharmaceutical Sciences from the University of Antwerp. She has work experience in method development and characterizing small molecules using high-resolution mass-spectrometry (HRMS) techniques inforensic, and environmental research. Juliet is focused on developing analytical methods to support the research teams at Biosyntia.

Coming up

Valdemar is a first-year MSc. of Biotechnology student from the University of Copenhagen with a desire to use his future career to contribute towards a more sustainable global food system. He is at the moment assisting with cleaning and other assignments in our laboratory.

Maryam is our Laboratory Technician Trainee, and she is working in our Downstream Process and Analytical Chemistry Teams.

As Student Assistant, Lukas makes sure that our bioreactors are clean and he also helps out with general laboratory related duties.

Lukas finished his bachelor in Biotechnology in 2022.

Buster is our Laboratory Technician Trainee, and he is working in our Fermentation and Analytical Chemistry Teams.