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Blake Simmons

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Director Biological Systems and Engineering Division

Blake Simmons is a senior scientific leader at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, where he serves as Director of the Biological Systems & Engineering Division. His work focuses on integrating biology, chemistry, and engineering to enable biomanufacturing and the production of affordable and scalable biofuels and bioproducts. Blake is the Chief Science and Technology Officer of the Joint BioEnergy Institute (JBEI, jbei.org), where he has driven advances in biomass deconstruction and conversion. He is widely recognized for translating fundamental science into scalable technologies and for bridging national-lab innovation with commercialization and deployment and is the co-founder of three startups.

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