Dr. Shiyuan Hu has over ten years of experience in biotechnology R&D and product applications with deep knowledge and expertise in scale-up and production of bio-based ingredients. He successfully led the development of biosurfactant products from R&D lab in China to production in Europe, as well as transferred technologies from Europe and facilitated tolling production in China. Before co-founding Cataya, Dr. Hu led the strategic planning of biotechnology R&D framework at Evonik China, and managed the execution of related projects accordingly as Head of Evonik (China) Biotechnology Center. Before joining Evonik, Dr. Hu worked as Senior Scientist at GE China Technology Center and Project Leader at Center of Industrial Biotechnology in Shanghai. Dr. Hu holds a BS in Biotechnology from Lanzhou University, and a Ph.D. in Molecular Microbiology from Key Laboratory of Synthetic Biology, CAS, China and University of Ulm, Germany.