Dr. Vassily Hatzimanikatis is Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering, Chemistry and Bioengineering at Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL), in Lausanne, Switzerland. Dr Hatzimanikatis’ research interests are on systems and synthetic biology, with focus on evolution and design of metabolism, integration of omics data, bioenergetics, microbial communities, biodegration, and biochemical and biophysical kinetics. Dr Hatzimanikatis is a fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (2010), he was a DuPont Young Professor (2001-2004), and he has also received the Jay Bailey Young Investigator Award in Metabolic Engineering (2000), the ACS Elmer Gaden Award (2011), the Metabolic Engineering Award from the International Society of Metabolic Engineering (2014), and the ACS BIOT Marvin J. Johnson Award (2026). He also serves as associate editor of the journals PLOS Computational Biology and Biotechnology & Bioengineering and, and Senior Editor of Biotechnology Journal.