Mattheos Koffas is the Dorothy and Fred Chau ’71 Endowed Professor in the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
He received his PhD from MIT in 2001 under the supervision of Gregory Stephanopoulos where he worked on amino acid production from Corynebacterium glutamicum. He was a Visiting Research Scientist at DuPont Central Research from 2001 to 2002 where he worked on methanotrophic bacteria and identified a pyrophosphate-dependent central carbon metabolism, resulting in nine patents.
He then joined the University at Buffalo...Read more
