Researcher

Xixian Chen graduated from the National University of Singapore (NUS) with a degree in Chemical Engineering and Life Sciences. She was awarded the Singapore-MIT Alliance fellowship for her PhD research in metabolic engineering. She subsequently joined the Biotransformation Innovation Platform (BioTrans) and is now a Group Leader at the A*STAR Singapore Institute of Food and Biotechnology Innovation (A*STAR SIFBI). Chen’s research interests lie at the interface of enzyme engineering, metabolic engineering, synthetic biology and laboratory automation. She has received multiple competitive Investigator Research Grants from Singapore. Currently, she leads the SIFBI Biofoundry SPARROW team, which is a member of the Global Biofoundry Alliance.