Mateus Schreiner Garcez Lopes
Innovation in Renewable Technologies - Braskem – Brazil
Biography
Mateus Schreiner Garcez Lopes has completed his PhD at the age of 27 years from University of São Paulo/Brazil and University of Erlangen/Germany. His postdoctoral studies were at University of São Paulo and he holds a MBA in Agribusiness also from the University of São Paulo. He had worked as researcher at the Natural Energy Institute (Hawaii- USA) and the Institute of Biotechnology from UNAM (Mexico). He is responsible for the Innovation in Renewable Technologies at Braskem, the largest petrochemical producer in the Americas and the world's leading biopolymer producer. He has published in international journals, has issued patents on new metabolic pathways and is serving as an industrial board member for Synberc (Synthetic Biology Research Center - USA).