Dr. Deepti Tanjore is the Director of Advanced Biofuels and Bioproducts Process Development Unit (ABPDU) at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. Deepti interfaces with several scientists from industry, academia, and start-ups that are each individually trying to resolve scale-up challenges for their technologies. The ABPDU performs process-scale studies to generate, recover, and purify prototype amounts of kilogram-level materials. Deepti’s research at ABPDU focuses on understanding microbial heterogeneity in bioreactors and developing real-time and/or on-line analytical tools for adequate regulation during the scale-up of these processes. Deepti received a BS in Chemical Engineering from Andhra University and a PhD in Biological Engineering from Pennsylvania State University. She is currently pursuing an MBA from Haas School of Business, University of California – Berkeley.