Dr. Tuck Seng Wong is a Senior Lecturer (eq. Associate Professor), from the Department of Chemical & Biological Engineering at the University of Sheffield.

He is leading a Biocatalysis & Synthetic Biology group in Sheffield and his key research focus is sustainable biomanufacturing using engineered enzymes or microbes. His passion in engineering of biology is inspired by his research supervisors and mentors including Prof. Frances H. Arnold (Caltech), Prof. Ulrich Schwaneberg (Bremen), Prof. Sir Alan R. Fersht (Cambridge) and Prof. Alexander Steinbüchel (Münster).

Dr. Wong obtained his BEng in Chemical Engineering (1st class honour) from the National University of Singapore, followed by an MSc and PhD in Biochemical Engineering (special distinction) from the Jacobs University Bremen in Germany.

He was a recipient of the MRC Career Development Fellowship and more recently the Royal Academy of Engineering Industrial Fellowship. He was also one of the 10 young academics appointed into the EPSRC Early Career Forum in Manufacturing Research in 2014 and a finalist of the Synthetic Biology Leadership Excellence Accelerator Program (LEAP) in 2015. He has published over 40 papers, mostly in the areas of protein engineering and synthetic biology.

Dr. Champreda is the Director of BIOTEC Microbial Biotechnology and Biochemicals Research Unit (MBB).

He obtained his PhD from the Imperial College London, under the supervision of Prof. David Leak.

He is recipient of the prestigious Young Scientist Award 2010 from the Foundation for the Promotion of Science and Technology under the Patronage of H. M. King and has authored over 98 papers.

Dr. Lily Eurwilaichitr is the Vice President of the National Science and Technology Development Agency (NSTDA) and the Director of the Thailand Bioresource Research Center (TBRC).

Her responsibility includes international cooperation of NSTDA. Dr. Eurwilaichitr also actively engages in research, focusing on enzyme discovery, recombinant expression systems and microbial biodiversity. She did her Ph.D. at the School of Biosciences, University of Kent, on molecular genetics of yeast.  She also led a team of researchers to establish and develop technology for gene discovery from unculturable microorganisms from the environments.

Professor Ocky Karna Radjasa is a Professor of Marine Microbiology at the Diponegoro University of Semarang, Central Java, Indonesia. He obtained his BSc degree in Environmental Science from Soedirman University, Purwokerto, Indonesia. He then went to McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada and obtained his MSc in Biology in 1994.

He joined Ocean Research Institute (ORI), the University of Tokyo, and received a PhD in Aquatic Biosciences in 2001. In 2002, he received a DAAD postdoctoral fellowship to work in the Institute of Chemistry and Biology of Marine Environment (ICBM), University of Oldenburg. In 2004, he joined GEOMAR – Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel as a Humboldt fellow. Since 2005 he has worked in Indonesia. He received his full professorship in the Department of Marine Science, Diponegoro University in 2011, followed by a Biovision Catalyzer Award from the Biovision World Life Science Forum in March 2013 in Lyon, France. He was also the grantee of Collaborative Development Award (CDA) from the British Higher Commission Singapore, British Council in 2013.

Currently, he serves as the Director of Research and Community Service of the Ministry of Research, Technology, and Higher Education of the Republic Indonesia in Jakarta as well as Governing Board Member of SEAMEO-SEARCA, Manila of the Philippines.

Assoc. Prof. Chu Hoang Ha is the Director of Institute of Biotechnology, Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology.