Jens Nielsen

Jens is the innovator behind more than 35 issued patents and patent applications. Considered a world-leading expert in metabolic engineering and systems biology, he has headed a research group of more than 80 researchers and co-authored over 600 research papers in international peer-reviewed journals that have been cited well over 40,000 times. Jens has founded multiple companies and served as a scientific advisor to numerous large biotech companies. He is currently the CEO of the BII Institute in Copenhagen.