Raffael Jovine

Raffael Jovine has a long and distinguished career in the field of biotechnology. Raffael began their career in 1986 as a Sponsored Research Staff at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where they studied fluorescence kinetics and energy transfer kinetics of mutagenized proteins in herbicide resistant, competent mutants. In 1989, they became a Biotechnology & Seagrant Trainee at UC Santa Barbara, where they characterized photosynthetic proteins and their pigments from several algal classes. In 1997, they became the Vice President and Director of Biological Sciences at ZPM International Ltd, where they developed microbial growth controls in process water of food producers and identified methods for extraction of natural products from agricultural, industrial and commercial waste streams. In 2000, they joined Booz Allen Hamilton as a Senior Associate, providing stakeholder advocacy and performing Program Office manager functions for investigators in the National Children's Study. In 2004, they moved to Booz & Company as a Senior Associate, developing risk-management processes across functional and compliance disciplines in drug development. In 2006, they became an Executive Consultant at Capgemini, where they performed policy analysis regarding the UK's life sciences research and worked with the Health Innovation Council to support the 'Next Stage Review'. In 2008, they joined Clinerion Ltd as Senior Vice President and Vice President, managing QA business unit to develop task-specific software applications and managing IP and patent submissions. In 2013, they founded Brilliant Planet, where they were the Chief Scientist and Principal Investor for several Innovate UK grants. Raffael developed new food ingredients from microalgae to produce zero-carbon footprint meat and fish analogues, nutritional oils, functional ingredients, nutraceutical and pigments for human food production. Raffael also created a production system with extremely high land utilization, negative freshwater footprint and ultra-low carbon footprint that de-acidifies very large quantities of seawater.

Raffael Jovine's education history includes a Bachelor of Science from Yale University in Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry (1982-1986), Sponsored Research Staff at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1986-1989), a Doctor of Philosophy from UC Santa Barbara in Evolutionary, Environmental & Marine Biology (1989-1995), and Postdoctoral Scholarships at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (1995-1997).