Greg Stephanopoulos is the W.H. Dow Professor of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology at MIT, and Instructor of Bioengineering at Harvard Medical School (1997-). He received his BS degree from the National Technical University of Athens, MS from the U. of Florida and PhD from the U. of Minnesota, all in Chemical Engineering. He taught at Caltech between 1978-85, after which he was appointed Professor of Chemical Engineering at MIT. The primary focus of his research for the past 3 decades has been on metabolic engineering, the engineering of microbes for the production of fuels and chemicals. He has co-authored or –edited 5 books, more than 450 papers (~65,000 citations), and 60 patents, and supervised more than 140 graduate and post-doctoral students. He co-founded the journal Metabolic Engineering, and served as co-editor-in chief and Editorial Board member of 10 scientific journals. For his research and educational contributions, Prof. Stephanopoulos has been recognized with more than 25 national and international awards. He has Honorary Doctorate Degrees from the Technical University of Denmark (2005), the National Technical University of Athens (2015) and the Technical University of Dortmund (2019). In 2011 he was selected as the Eni Prize winner for Renewable and non-Conventional Energy and in 2016 he won the Eric and Sheila Samson $1m Prime Minister Prize (Israel). Professor Stephanopoulos has served on the Board of Directors and as President of AIChE (2016). He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering, National Academy of Sciences, Academia Europaea and the Academy of Athens.