Biofuels and Bioenergy

Kesen Ma is a Microbiologist, graduated from the Department of Biology, Wuhan University. After graduated with an MSc degree from the Institute of Microbiology, Chinese Academy of Science (CAS), he went to Germany as a Max-Planck-Institute Fellow and obtained his PhD from Philipps-University Marburg. He worked as a Research Associate at the University, and a Postdoctoral Fellow and then an Assistant Research Scientist at the University of Georgia, United States. He became a Graduate Faculty at the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at the University of Georgia. He is an Associate Professor in the Department of Biology at the University of Waterloo, Canada. His current research has a focus on enzymology, metabolism, bio-processing and biotechnological applications of hyperthermophilic microorganisms.