Florian Richter

Florian Richter is a Senior Scientist at Bayer, specializing in protein engineering, genome editing, and scientific software development. With over a decade of experience in both theoretical and practical aspects of protein engineering, they have led multiple projects, particularly in Crispr/Cas9 engineering and enzyme design. Florian earned a Ph.D. in Biochemistry from the University of Washington, where they developed significant contributions to the Rosetta3 software package and published several scientific papers. Prior to their current role, they held postdoctoral positions focused on optogenetics and collaborated with leading experts in the field.