Prof. Hongwu MA is currently the director of the Biodesign Center. He received his Ph.D degree in Biochemical Engineering from Tianjin University, China in 2001. He then worked in German Research Centre for Biotechnology (GBF) as a postdoc and moved to the University of Edinburgh at the end of 2005 as a senior research fellow. He was appointed as a professor at TIB-CAS at Dec 2011. He has been working on various research fields including reconstruction and analysis of genome scale metabolic models and multi-constraint models, design of metabolic pathways and metabolic engineering targets, enzyme function prediction and design using AI technologies, and development of biological databases and web services. He has published over 100 papers in international journals and was awarded “Highly Cited Researchers” by Thomson Reuters in 2014. He is currently a member of the Computational Synthetic Biology Committee of the Chinese Society for Bioinformatics, and associate editor of Biodesign Research.
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