Min Zhang

Dr. Min Zhang is a Scientist V in the Biosciences Center at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL). Her responsibilities included technical leadership and innovation in biocatalyst development for conversion biomass sugars to fuels and chemicals. Since joining NREL in 1992, she led a team successfully metabolic engineered pentose metabolism in Zymomonas mobilis which won a 1995 R&D 100 Award by R&D Magazine and the work is published in Science magazine in 1995. She has since led the strain development work and collaborated in a number of industrial projects through Cooperative Research And Development Agreements (CRADAs) on developing efficient biocatalysts, including bacteria and yeast, for production of fuels and chemicals from biomass.