Dr. Gregory Stephanopoulos is the W. H. Dow Professor of Chemical Engineering and Director of the MIT Metabolic Engineering Laboratory at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT, USA). He is also a Harvard Medical School Bioengineering Instructor (since 1997).

The American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) (Wilhelm, Walker, and Founders awards), the American Chemical Society (ACS), the Society of Industrial Microbiology (SIM), BIO (Washington Carver Award), the American Association of Engineering Societies’ John Fritz Medal, and others have all honoured him. In 2003, he was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in the United States, and in 2014, he was chosen as President of AIChE.