30/05/2021
Petra is currently an Associate Professor in Biochemical Engineering at University College London (UCL) and also the co-founder and Chief Scientific Officer at Quest Meat Ltd. Previously she was a Lecturer at Aston University. She is a biochemical engineer by training working at the intersection of engineering, life sciences and commercial interfaces with a particular emphasis on multidisciplinary approaches to address one distinct challenge: food and nutrition for health, by advancing cultivated meat technologies. Petra is now the Chair of ESACT-UK and also a committee member for the Biochemical Engineering Subject Interest Group (BESIG) in the Institution of Chemical Engineers (IChemE). She is also on the Editorial Board and an Executive Editor of Biotechnology Letters.