Kyle Lauersen

Associate Professor of Bioengineering, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology

Dr. Kyle J. Lauersen is an Associate Professor (effective July 1, 2025) at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) in Thuwal, Saudi Arabia. His group is named Sustainable & Synthetic Biotechnology and has been at KAUST since August 2019. Their main research is focussed on engineering algae through the technologies collectively known as synthetic biology to be green cell factories for waste revalorization. Kyle did his Doctorate of Natural Sciences at Bielefeld University in Germany, and his master’s as well as undergrad at Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario, Canada.

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