Our aim is to develop scalable enzyme technologies that transform underused residues of agricultural and forest sectors into chemicals and materials that increase the efficient and cascading use of renewable bioresources.

We focus on enzymes that upgrade rather than degrade biomass residues, providing clean technologies that leverage natural compositions to generate bio-based materials with high atom economy.

Our approach benefits from three key advantages of enzyme technologies: 1) catalytic specificity that allows predictable modification of complex substrates, 2) water-based catalyses at moderate conditions that retain beneficial properties of the starting material, and 3) unmatched ability to design new catalysts through protein modelling and engineering.