Sonja Billerbeck

Sonja Billerbeck is an Associate Professor at the Bioengineering Department of Imperial College London. She recently moved her group from the Bimolecular Sciences and Biotechnology Institute of the University of Groningen in the Netherlands. The Billerbeck lab uses a combination of synthetic biology, genome engineering, protein engineering and environmental microbiology to turn microbial functions into applications. They specifically focus on tackling fungal diseases in human health, food and agriculture and on delivering tools for non-model microbes to make their capabilities available for future food production.

Sonja holds a PhD in Bioengineering from ETH Zurich and performed postdoctoral work in yeast synthetic biology at Columbia University in New York.