Researcher

Clement Scipion is a Scientist at the Singapore Institute of Food and Biotechnology Innovation (A*STAR SIFBI). He obtained his PhD from A*STAR Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology (IMCB) and the National University of Singapore (NUS) under the A*GA SINGA scholarship, where he studied the structural and biochemical mechanisms regulating actin dynamics. He then pursued postdoctoral research at the University of Pennsylvania, focusing on mammalian protein expression and structural analysis of cytoskeletal proteins using cryo-electron microscopy. At A*STAR SIFBI, his research integrates bioinformatics, mutagenesis, enzyme kinetics and robotic, a biofoundry platform to accelerate enzyme discovery and optimisation. His research focuses on synthetic biology and enzyme engineering to enable the sustainable microbial production of high-value natural compounds, combining protein engineering with automated high-throughput screening to investigate how molecular features control enzyme activity, specificity and robustness.