Jens-Erik Nielsen

Vice President of Enzyme Research · Novozymes · company speakers →

Jens Erik Nielsen is Vice President of Enzyme Research at Novozymes A/S. He holds a PhD from the EMBL/Philipps-Universität Marburg in computational biology. He post-doc’ed at the EMBL and at UCSD before taking up a Sen. Lecturer position at University College Dublin and studying protein electrostatics and enzyme catalysis. Since 2011 he has working at Novozymes in various positions before taking on the responsibility for basic enzyme discovery, engineering and production strain construction in 2020. Jens enjoys understanding the biophysical principles that limit enzyme performance in application and in the methods we have available for engineering and formulating enzymes to overcome these limitations. Lately he has become particularly interested in how we make biological solutions robust enough and cheap enough to be widely adopted in society and thus contribute more to a sustainable planet. The engineering of enzymes to be stable under extreme conditions and the contextualization of biology in industrial are main contributions in his recent work at Novozymes.

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