José Avalos

Associate Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering and Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment; Director of Undergraduate Studies | VIFF SaBRe PI

Year

2024
Program

Virtual Institute on Feedstocks of the Future (VIFF)
Institution

Princeton University
Location

Princeton, USA

Dr. José Avalos earned a B.E. in chemical engineering from Universidad Ibero-
Americana in Mexico City and an M.Sc. in biochemical research from Imperial College in London. He then received a Ph.D. in biochemistry and biophysics from Johns Hopkins University. He conducted post-doctoral research at The Rockefeller University on molecular neuroscience, and then at MIT/Whitehead Institute, in the Department of Chemical Engineering on metabolic engineering and synthetic biology. He has been a faculty member at Princeton University since 2015, where he leads a research group focused on the use of biotechnology to address challenges in renewable energy, sustainable manufacturing, the environment, and human health. He has received several awards, including the Damon Runyon Cancer Research Fellowship, the NIH Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award, the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Research Fellowship Award, the Pew Scholarship, the NSF CAREER Award, the Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award, the HHMI Gilliam award, and the ACS BIOT Young Investigator Award. He is currently Associate Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering and the Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment, and the Omenn-Darling Bioengineering Institute of Princeton University.