Conference Organizers

Conference Chairs:

• Christoph Wittmann, Saarland University
• Oskar Zelder, BASF

Co-Chairs:

• Hal Alper, University of Texas, Austin
• Roel Bovenberg , DSM
• Akihiko Kondo, Kobe University
• Uwe Sauer, ETH Zurich
• Hiroshi Shimizu, Osaka University
• Christina Smolke, Stanford University

Steering Committee:

• Jens Nielsen, Chalmers University of Technology
• Vassily Hatzimanikatis, EPFL
• Jay Keasling, UC Berkeley
• Sang Yup Lee, KAIST
• Jim Liao, Academia Sinica
• Terry Papoutsakis, University of Delaware
• Kristala Prather, MIT
• Jack Pronk, TU Delft
• Greg Stephanopoulos, MIT
• June Wispelwey, AIChE

Organizing Committee:

• Günter Wich, Wacker
• Kay Marin, Evonik
• Jürgen Eck, Brain
• Christoph Gürtler, Covestro (Bayer)
• Rute Neves, Chr. Hansen
• Heelen Goorissen, Corbion/Purac
• Dina Petranovic, Chalmers University of Technology
• Isabel Rocha, SynBioLife, Minho University
• Elke Nevoigt, Jacobs University Bremen
• Michael Bott, Research Centre Jülich
• Steffen Klamt, MPI Magdeburg
• Andriy Lutshetzkyy, Saarland University
• Lars Blank, Aachen University
• Ralf Takors, University of Stuttgart
• Diethard Mattanovich, University of Vienna

Scientific Advisory Board:

• Ryan Gill, University of Colorado
• Vassily Hatzimanikatis,  EPFL
• Joseph Heijnen,  TU Delft
• Sang Yup Lee,  KAIST
• Jim Liao, UCLA
• Jens Nielsen, Chalmers University of Technology
• Matthias Reuss, University of Stuttgart
• Anthony Sinskey, MIT
• Philippe Soucaille, University of Toulouse
• Greg Stephanopoulos, MIT
• Elmar Heinzle, Saarland University