[4][5][6] Palsson received his PhD from the University of Wisconsin–Madison[7] in 1984 under the supervision of Edwin N.
[2] Upon graduation Palsson joined the chemical engineering faculty at University of Michigan where he served as a professor until 1995.
[1] Palsson has authored or co-authored over 300 peer-reviewed scientific articles[8][9] and is the holder of over 35 patents.
[4] His research interests include metabolic network modelling,[10] systems biology,[11][12][13] tissue engineering[14] and cell culture,[15] the development of analysis procedures for genome-scale models, and the experimental verification of these models in Escherichia coli,[16][17][18] Saccharomyces cerevisiae[19][20] and other important organisms.
Palsson serves on the editorial board of several scientific journals including Annals of Biomedical Engineering, Biotechnology and Bioengineering, Metabolic Engineering and Molecular Systems Biology.