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Vice President, Process Development and Engineering
New Culture
Binita has been with Amyris for over 5 years, and currently leads the Downstream Process Development team that develops and scales process trains to recover and purify fermentation-derived renewables for Amyris’s Health & Wellness, Flavors & Fragrances, and Clean Beauty product lines. Prior to Amyris, Binita was with BP Americas. There she worked on olefins, aromatics, bioethanol, biodiesel and gasification applications, focusing on process development and optimization, conceptual design, and techno-economic evaluations. Binita holds a BS degree from UC Berkeley, and MSCEP and PhD degrees from MIT, in chemical engineering.