Rodrigo Ledesma-Amaro
Director of the Bezos Centre for Sustainable Protein and the Microbial Food Hub,
IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON
Rodrigo Ledesma-Amaro is a Reader at Imperial College London and the Director of the Bezos Centre for Sustainable protein and the Microbial Food Hub. He leads a research group working on Engineering Biology and sustainability. His research focuses on the use of microorganisms to convert renewable feedstocks into valuable products (such as food ingredients). He has published over 150 articles, most on topics related to microbial bioproduction (precision, biomass and traditional fermentation). Rodrigo obtained his PhD at the University of Salamanca (Spain). Before joining Imperial, he carried out his postdoctoral research at the National Research Institute for Agriculture, Food and the Environment (INRAE, France). He has been a visiting researcher at Chalmers University of Technology (Sweden) and AIST (Japan).
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