Conference speaker
Rajni Hatti Kaul is Professor in Biotechnology and Director of International Master Programme in Biotechnology at Lund University in Sweden. Her research is aimed at the development and use of biotechnology tools for a sustainable society.
She has been leading interdisciplinary research projects involving academia-industry collaborations dealing with R&D on developing environment-friendly processes for production of chemical building blocks from renewable resources that could replace fossil-based products. Since 2016, RHK is Director of a multidisciplinary research programme STEPS - Sustainable Plastics and Transition Pathways involving several research groups and stakeholders representing the plastic value chain (steps-mistra.se). Other research deals with evaluating biological antimicrobial molecules for treatment of bacterial infections with an aim to reduce antibiotic resistance. She is a member of the scientific advisory board for Toulouse While Biotechnology in Toulouse, France, and co-founder of 4 start-ups.