Luisa is VP Technology Integration & Strain Development at Insempra GmbH in Munich, Germany. She earned her BS in Chemistry from the University of Arizona and PhD in Chemistry and Chemical Biology from Harvard University in 2010, where she focused on the protein complexes that build the outer membrane of E. coli. Moving to the field of metabolic engineering, she completed a postdoctoral project in the laboratory of James Liao at UCLA. Since then, she has focused on commercial applications of metabolic engineering by producing various ingredients by fermentation of engineered bacteria and yeasts, first at Biosyntia in Copenhagen, Denmark, and now at Insempra. Her group at Insempra uses cell free expression technology, developed in-house for multiple chassis strains, to quickly prototype individual enzymes, as well as multi-step enzymatic pathways, and correlate this to in-vivo activity. This speeds up their engineering of strains for sustainable production of food and personal care ingredients.