Yannick Bomble

Yannick Bomble, Ph.D. is a distinguished principal scientist and research group manager – NREL. Yannick joined the National Renewable Energy Laboratory in 2008. His team is multidisciplinary and has historically focused on the characterization/engineering of biomass degrading and metabolic enzymes to improve the production of biofuels and bioproducts in thermophiles. Lately, his research has focused more on enabling cell free biocatalysis wherein enzyme cascades operate in the absence of cellular constraints. His team is working on addressing the biggest challenges standing in the way of cost competitive production of fuels and bioproducts using this approach which he hopes will help derisk these technologies and further industrial adoption for biomanufacturing. He received his Ph.D. in Chemical Physics from the University of Texas at Austin (2006) and conducted his postdoctoral work in Computational Biology at the Scripps Research Institute in La Jolla, California (2007). Prior to this he obtained a B.S in Physics and Chemistry from the Universite de Lille (France) (2001) after two years of Mathématiques Superieures and Mathématiques Speciales at the Lycée Faidherbe in Lille (France).