Sarah D’Adamo

Sarah D’Adamo holds a MSc. in industrial biotechnology and PhD in biochemistry and biophysics, obtained at the University of Study of Padova, Italy. Since 2018, she is a tenure-track Assistant Professor in microalgal cell factory design at the Bioprocess Engineering group of Wageningen University, The Netherlands.

She worked as post-doctoral fellow and research associate at Colorado School of Mines (USA), following projects on redox and hydrogen metabolism of green microalgae. She has been senior scientist and lead scientist at Algenuity, an UK microalgal biotech start-up company. Overall, she has >10 years’ of both academic and industrial experience in the field of microalgae physiology, strain engineering and biotechnology, conducted in Italy, USA, UK and, NL. Expertise includes analytical chemistry, biochemistry, molecular biology, biophysics, redox reactions, photosynthesis, metabolic engineering, bioprocesses.