Arild Johannessen

Arild Johannessen, Dr. Scient (Ph.D.), joined the Scientific Calysta Advisory Board in 2017. He is Managing Director at Biosentrum AS in Norway. From 2014-2017, Dr. Johannessen served as Vice President, Fermentation at Calysta, with responsibility for fermentation R&D and project management. He joined Calysta in 2014 as a result of the acquisition of BioProtein AS. Previously, Dr. Johannessen was with the International Research Institute of Stavanger (Norway) (IRIS) where he held positions including Research Director for Biotechnology and Managing Director for the IRIS biotechnology subsidiary. Prior to IRIS he was head of R&D at Biosentrum AS, and a scientist at Norferm AS.

Dr. Johannessen has focused his career on large scale microbial fermentation. He has been an invited speaker at conferences in the field of microbial production, with a special emphasis on fermentation using gases. He is an author of approximately 10 scientific publications and more than 10 patents and patent applications. He received a Dr. Scient (Ph.D.) in 1996 from the University of Bergen, and did his post-doctoral research at University of Bergen in the laboratory of Dr. Ian Pryme.