Emma Master
Associate Director, BioZone Centre for Applied Bioscience and Bioengineering
University of Toronto
Emma Master is a Professor at the University of Toronto. In July 2023, she became Director of the BioZone Centre for Applied Bioscience and Bioengineering. The aim of her research is to design and test enzymes that customize nature’s most abundant structural biopolymers, including cellulose and hemicelluloses, for use in renewable and value-added materials. Since 2011, she has also had a second research team at Aalto University in Finland funded through EU Horizon 2020 programs. To scale-up and de-risk most promising biotechnologies emerging from her research, she co-founded YZymes (i.e., “Why Enzymes) in 2021 to accelerate technology translation and benefits to diversified biorefineries.
