Professor Mattheos Koffas, PhD., received his B.S degree in Chemical Engineering from the National Technical University in Athens, Greece in 1994. He then joined the graduate program of the Department of Chemical Engineering at MIT where he worked on improving amino acid biosynthesis from Corynebacterium glutamicum. After completing his PhD in 2000, he joined DuPontís Central Research and Development as a research scientist where he worked on engineering the carotenoid biosynthesis of an obligate methanotroph. In August of 2002 he joined the faculty of the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering at SUNY Buffalo as a tenure-track Assistant Professor and was promoted to Associate Professor with tenure in the summer of 2008. In January of 2011 Prof. Koffas moved to his current position at RPI. In his research career, Dr Koffas has worked with a variety of microorganisms and natural products including amino acids, polyphenols, fatty acids and terpenoids. He has published more than 40 peer-reviewed publications, more than 10 book chapters and holds 8 patents. He is a member of the Editorials Boards of various Journals in the area of Bioengineering. His research has been funded by Federal agencies (NIH and NSF), the State of New York (NYStem) and industrial partners (Evonik, Firstwave Technologies and Chromadex).

 Metabolic Engineering, Synthetic Biology, Industrial Microbiology, Natural Product