Francesco Mutti

Francesco Mutti is Professor of Biocatalysis at the University of Amsterdam (Netherlands). He graduated in Industrial Chemistry (2004) from the University of Milan (Italy). After obtaining his PhD in Chemistry (2008), he worked as a research associate in the groups of Prof. Wolfgang Kroutil at the University of Graz (2009–2012) and Prof. Nicholas Turner at the University of Manchester (UK; 2013–2014). Since 2015, he has been leading the Biocatalysis group at the University of Amsterdam. Among other distinctions, he has been a Marie Skłodowska-Curie fellow and has received an ERC Starting Grant, several EU and Dutch national grants, as well as industry funding. He is also a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (UK) and an honorary member of the Argentinian Chemical Society.

His main research interests include the development of biocatalytic cascades for the sustainable synthesis of chemicals, enzyme discovery and engineering, continuous flow biocatalysis, in vivo biocatalysis, and bioelectrochemistry.