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.

Jochen has extensive experience in bringing new technology and products to commercial scale and the market. This fits perfectly with the next development phase of several of our pipeline projects. With Jochen’s experience as Co-founder from Fluxome and Director/Professor of Yeast & Fermentation at global leader Carlsberg, he brings strong commercial experience in building and managing teams across established and emerging biotechnology companies, coupled with strong life-science research experience and leadership through a career in academia.

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Marine holds a PhD in molecular biology and has an extensive experience in synthetic biology and strain engineering for the synthesis of pharmaceuticals small molecules.

Marine's responsibility includes people and project management, in particular the design and identification of high producing ingredient strains using the latest synthetic biology technologies.

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Linda is Senior Scientist and Head of Analytical Chemistry and Lab Management at Biosyntia. Linda holds an M.Sc. in Analytical Chemistry and a Ph.D. in Pharmaceutical Chemistry from the University of Helsinki.

Linda has gained broad expertise in metabolomics and lipidomics from working as a research analytical chemist at Steno Diabetes Center Copenhagen (SDCC) for almost four years before joining Biosyntia in 2018. Additionally, Linda brings valuable knowledge to the team concerning starting up analytical laboratories and setting up new analytical methods since these have been her main responsibilities throughout the past years.

At Biosyntia, Linda is responsible for setting up new analytical methods and techniques for the team to gain deeper knowledge in the biological and fermentation processes being performed.

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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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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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Nils is a metabolic engineering research scientist at Biosyntia and holds a M.Sc. Eng. degree from the Technical University of Denmark and the Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Biosustainability.

He has published research experience with synthetic biology in yeast and genetic stability in metabolically engineered bacteria. He was awarded the Novo Scholarship for his master thesis on the latter. Nils is fascinated by the possibilities that metabolic engineering, biodiversity and evolution provide for establishment of a sustainable, bio-based economy.

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.

Ben holds a B.Sc. degree from the University of California, San Diego in General Biology.

Ben brings to Biosyntia ten years of experience in the sustainable chemicals industry. Most recently, he worked in the fermentation department of a renewable chemical research company working on producing intermediate chemicals from alternative feedstocks, where he was part of the team that brought two compounds to commercial scale. Responsibilities included process development and troubleshooting as well as process scale-up from lab-scale to 200,000 L, with site work in Italy and Germany.

Ben 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.

Carlos is a protein and metabolic engineering scientist at Biosyntia.

Carlos holds a “cum laude” Ph.D. in molecular biotechnology from the Max Planck Institute and the Technical University Munich.

During his Ph.D. at the lab of Nediljko Budisa, Carlos developed new approaches to improve proteins based on genetic code engineering (xenobiology). He then did postdoctoral training in biocatalysis and protein directed evolution at the lab of Manfred T. Reetz.

Carlos is interested in the potential of synthetic biology for developing real-world applications using protein, metabolic and genome engineering guided by systems biology approaches.

Axel works with business intelligence and business development in Biosyntia. He holds a M.Sc. from CBS in international business and comes with previous experience from The Investment Fund for Developing Countries.

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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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.

Carmen is a research scientist working on downstream processing at Biosyntia. She holds a B. Sc. degree from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in Chemical Engineering and an M. Sc. degree from the Technical University of Denmark in Pharmaceutical Design and Engineering.

Carmen has previously worked on developing and optimizing downstream processes for bio-based compounds at the Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Biosustainability. She is interested in finding effective, innovative, and sustainable methods for isolating and purifying products from fermentations.

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Coming up

Silvia is a research assistant 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.

Beata holds a PhD in molecular biology and has an experience with production of small molecules in yeast using strain engineering and fermentation process optimization strategies. She developed her skillset at industry as well as in academia. In Biosyntia Beata is responsible for development of yeast strains, that will allow bio-sustainable production of phytochemicals.

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.

Coming up

Wibke will work as an intern at Biosyntia until August 31st 2023