Gregory “Greg” Stephanopoulos

• Year

  2024

• Program

  Virtual Institute on Feedstocks of the Future (VIFF)

• Institution

  Massachusetts Institute of Technology

• Location

  Cambridge, USA

Greg Stephanopoulos is the W.H. Dow Professor of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology at MIT and Instructor of Bioengineering at Harvard Medical School. He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering, the National Academy of Sciences, the Academia Europaea, and the Academy of Athens. He received his B.S. degree from the National Technical University of Athens, M.S. from the U. of Florida, and Ph.D. from the U. of Minnesota, all in Chemical Engineering. He taught at Caltech, after which he was appointed Professor of ChE at MIT. The primary focus of his research for the past three decades has been on metabolic engineering, the engineering of microbes for producing fuels and chemicals. He has co-authored 5 books, more than 450 papers (~65,000 citations) and 60 patents and supervised more than 140 graduate and post-doctoral students. He co-founded the journal Metabolic Engineering and served as co-editor-in-chief and Editorial Board member of 10 scientific journals. For his research and educational contributions, Prof. Stephanopoulos has been recognized with more than 25 national and international awards, including the Bailey Award in Biotechnology, the Eric and Sheila Samson $1M Prime Minister Prize (Israel), and the Eni Prize winner for Renewable and non-Conventional Energy. He has Honorary Doctorate Degrees from the Technical University of Denmark, the National Technical University of Athens and the Technical University of Dortmund. Prof. Stephanopoulos has also consulted with major pharmaceutical, oil, and chemical companies and co-founded three startups.