Jørgen Hansen

Jørgen is a molecular and fermentation biologist who has worked in the biotech sector for more than 30 years. He has led a large number of industrial biotech programmes, and developed multiple fermentation-derived products from lab scale to multi-tonne scale production and launch.

Jørgen worked for Evolva for 13 years, five of them as CSO where he was responsible for an R&D operation of 120 people worldwide. Prior to Evolva he was with another biotech company, Poalis, developing novel aroma-chemical processes, and before that he held R&D roles with the Danish brewer Carlsberg, including a stint working on a joint Carlsberg-Suntory project.

Jorgen has a PhD in Yeast Genetics from the University of Copenhagen.