Department of Chemical Engineering, National Tsing Hua University
Dr. Claire R. Shen received her Bachelor of Science degree in the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) with Magna Cum Laude in 2006. She then continued her study at the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at UCLA and obtained her Ph.D. degree in 2011, specializing in metabolic engineering, mutagenesis, and renewable chemical production under the supervision of Dr. James Liao. Upon receipt of her Ph.D. degree, Dr. Shen joined the Institute for Genomics and Proteomics at UCLA for her post-doctoral research from 2011 to 2013. Throughout her graduate study and post-doctoral period, Dr. Shen had close industrial collaboration with The KAITEKI Institute under the world-renowned company Mitsubishi Chemical Holdings Group and the start-up biobased chemical company Gevo Inc., focusing on the conversion of light energy, CO2, and renewable feedstock into high-value biomolecules. In the December of 2013, Dr. Shen joined the Department of Chemical Engineering at National Tsing Hua University as an assistant professor and was promoted to associate professor in 2018. Her current research interests include biobased chemicals from renewable sources, design of synthetic pathway, and directed evolution of production system to achieved novel functions.