Tuck Seng Wong

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TSW is a Professor of Biomanufacturing within the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering at the University of Sheffield. He holds two adjunct positions in South East Asia, affiliating with the National Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology (BIOTEC, Thailand) and the Bandung Institute of Technology (ITB, Indonesia). He is a recipient of multiple prestigious fellowships, including the RAEng | The Leverhulme Trust Senior Research Fellowship (2019), the Royal Academy of Engineering Industrial Fellowship (2016), and the MRC Career Development Fellowship (2007). With over two decades of expertise in protein engineering and engineering biology, his research spans diverse applications, including biopharmaceuticals, enzyme biocatalysis, and alternative foods. He is the author of the protein engineering textbook ‘A Practical Guide to Protein Engineering’ (ISBN: 978-3-030-56898-6), which has recently been translated into German ‘Ein praktischer Leitfaden für Protein Engineering’ (ISBN: 978-3-031-32826-8). In 2022, he co-founded Evolutor Ltd, a Sheffield-based biotech spinout focusing on developing advanced microbes for biomanufacturing through a proprietary accelerated evolution platform.