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Adam Feist is a Principle Investigator as a Research Scientist at UCSD and a Group Leader at the Center for Biosustainability at the DTU. He received a PhD in Bioengineering from UCSD in 2008 and a B.S. in Chemical Engineering from UNL in 2003. Adam’s research expertise is focused on adaptive laboratory evolution, laboratory automation for biological experimentation, and constraint-based reconstruction and modeling. He has applied his expertise broadly towards applications in industrial biotechnology, metabolic engineering, and biomedicine to solve problems associated with strain design and understanding emergent properties of microorganisms. Adam has co-authored over 100 peer-reviewed publications in these fields, has an h-index of 52 with over 15,000 overall citations, and has served as a research advisor for numerous PhD students and Post-docs. Adam was awarded the Jay Bailey Young Investigator Award in Metabolic Engineering in 2018 and has been recognized as a Top 2% Researcher by PLoS Biology for multiple years. Adam also has 2 years of experience in industry working at a start-up company focused on commercializing constraint-based modeling in the field of human health.

October 2023