Eija Vartiainen

Eija Vartiainen currently serves as the Head of Site Quality Assurance at AB Enzymes since September 2024, after holding the position of Manufacturing Product Safety Manager. Prior to this, Eija Vartiainen worked at Roal Oy from February 2018 to December 2024 as a Product Safety Specialist, focusing on the management and development of food safety and feed safety systems, alongside leading the Manufacturing HACCP team. Eija Vartiainen also has extensive experience as a Senior Research Scientist and Microbiologist, where responsibilities included the development of production strains, maintenance of culture collections, and ensuring compliance with regulations regarding microbial usage. Earlier, Eija Vartiainen was a Research Scientist at VTT from March 2001 to January 2018, specializing in metabolic engineering of yeasts for fuels and chemicals and engaging in bioinformatics for genome-wide data analysis. Eija Vartiainen holds a Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in Microbiology from the University of Helsinki.