Roberto Ferro

Roberto Ferro's work experience includes co-founding and serving as CTO at The Syrup Company since 2018. In 2019, they worked as a pilot product developer at IKEA bootcamp, where they developed three non-alcoholic beverage alternatives and presented them at the democratic design days. In 2018, Roberto worked as a consultant at Empirical Spirits, where they assisted with daily Koji production and wrote grant applications and business plans. From 2014 to 2018, they worked as a PhD student at The Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Biosustainability and København Universitet, focusing on increasing heterologous protein production in microbial cell factories. Roberto also worked as a research assistant at the same institution in 2014. Prior to that, Roberto was a research assistant at DTU - Technical University of Denmark and a project developer at Grøn Vision in 2010.

Roberto Ferro pursued their education in a sequential manner, starting with their Bachelor of Science (BSc) in Biology from the Università degli Studi di Padova, which they completed between 2004 and 2008. Roberto then attended the Technical University of Denmark (DTU) from 2009 to 2012, where they obtained a Master of Science (MSc) degree in Biotechnology. Following this, they joined the University of Copenhagen, specifically the Center for Biosustainability, to pursue their Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in Synthetic biology from 2014 to 2018.