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Emma Master

Professor

Faculty of Applied Science and Engineering, Department of Chemical Engineering and Applied Chemistry

  • Professor
    Faculty of Applied Science and Engineering, Department of Chemical Engineering and Applied Chemistry
  • 416-946-7861 (Work)

BIO

Emma Master is a Professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering and Applied Chemistry and is BioZone’s Associate Director for Laboratories and Facilities. She is also an Adjunct Professor at Aalto University (Finland). Her research expertise includes functional genomics, protein engineering and production, and the development of enzyme cascades that tailor the chemical and mechanical properties of renewable plant fibre for their broader use in sustainable textiles, resins and bio-derived chemicals.

Emma Master serves as the Associate Director of BioZone: A Centre of Applied Bioscience and Bioengineering (https://www.biozone.utoronto.ca). She also co-leads the Genome Canada Synbiomics project that focuses on functional genomics and techno-economic models for bioproduct synthesis (www.synbiomics.ca), and leads the NSERC CREATE training program in Open Science for Industrial Biotechnology in the Circular Economy (https://www.biozone.utoronto.ca/biozonecreate/). In 2010, she was awarded a Finland Distinguished Professor Fellowship to establish a research team at Aalto University in Finland. In 2015, she was awarded a European Research Council Consolidator grant to expand her research network within Europe, and in 2020 she was awarded a Future and Emerging Technologies (FET) Open grant to integrate bioscience, computational sciences and materials sciences for the advancement of biotechnologies in circular bio-based economies. To scale-up and de-risk most promising biotechnologies, co-founded YZymes Inc in 2021 to accelerate technology translation and benefits to diversified biorefineries.

Over the past six years, supervised 55 post-doctoral fellows, Ph.D. students, and Master’s students. ORCID iD https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6837-9817 | Researcher ID O-3554-2014

ACADEMIC POSITIONS

  • Professor
    University of Toronto, Toronto, CanadaApr 2016 - present
  • Adjunct Professor
    Aalto University, Helsinki, FinlandSep 2015 - present
  • Visiting Professor
    Aalto University, Helsinki, FinlandSep 2011 - Aug 2015
  • Assistant Professor
    University of Toronto, Toronto, CanadaNov 2005 - Jun 2011
  • Post-Doctoral Fellow
    Concordia University, Montreal, CanadaNov 2004 - Oct 2005
  • Post-Doctoral Fellow
    Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, SwedenFeb 2002 - Oct 2004

DEGREES

  • PhD
    University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
  • BSc
    McGill University, Montreal, Canada

AVAILABILITY

  • Industry Projects
  • Collaborative projects
  • Masters Research or PhD student supervision

INSTITUTIONAL STRATEGIC INITIATIVES

  • Climate Positive Energy (CPE)

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