Jens Nielsen

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Jens Nielsen
Nielsen in 2017
Nationality	Danish
Alma mater	Technical University of Denmark, Denmark
Known for	Metabolic engineering, systems biology
Awards	See Awards section
Scientific career
Institutions	Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden; BioInnovation Institute, Denmark
Doctoral advisor	John Villadsen

Jens Nielsen is the CEO of BioInnovation Institute,^[1] Copenhagen, Denmark, and professor of systems biology^[2] at Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden. He is also an adjunct professor at the Danish Technical University and the University of Copenhagen. Nielsen is the most cited researcher in the field of metabolic engineering, and he is the most cited researcher in Biology and Biochemistry in Sweden and Denmark (top 5 in Europe). He is the only foreign member of all three academies in the US (Science, Engineering and Medicine) and he is also foreign member of the Chinese Academy of Engineering. He was the founding president of the International Metabolic Engineering Society. He has additionally founded several biotech companies.