Huimin Zhao is the Steven L. Miller Chair Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, as well as the leader of the Biosystems Design research theme in the Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology.
His research focuses on directed evolution, metabolic engineering, bioinformatics and high throughput technologies.
[2] Prior to joining the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, he was a project leader at Dow Chemical.
His lab focuses on using protein engineering and metabolic engineering to harness the power of synthetic biology over four principal themes, industrial bioenergy, drug discovery and development, gene therapy, synthetic biology and immunotherapy.
[4] He serves as an associate editor of ACS Catalysis.