Fernando López-Gallego is IKERBASQUE Professor at CIC biomaGUNE. After obtaining his PhD at the University Autonoma of Madrid, he did a post-doc in the laboratory of Prof. Schmidt-Danner at the University of Minnesota about metabolic engineering and synthetic biology. After working in industry for 1 year as a technologist at its REPSOL Technology Centre in Madrid,in 2014, he was awarded an IKERBASQUE fellow grant to start his independent career at CIC biomaGUNE in Donostia-San Sebastian. From 2017 to 2019, he was a Senior researcher at the University of Zaragoza, and since October 2019, he has been an IKERBASQUE research professor back in CIC biomaGUNE. His primary research falls in the emerging field of in vitro metabolic engineering, integrating biological machineries to advanced materials to fabricate multi-functional heterogeneous biocatalysts for different biotechnological applications. He is currently exploiting the power of enzymes in chemical manufacturing, energy production and bioremediation.  ​