Alex Toftgaard Nielsen

Co-Founder & Chief Science Officer

Copenhagen, Denmark

Alex Toftgaard Nielsen is a professor at the Technical University of Denmark's Center for Biosustainability with a background in metabolic engineering, bacterial physiology and synthetic biology (M.Sc. and Ph.D. from DTU, postdoctoral fellow at Stanford). His research into bacterial production of biochemicals underpins Again's core gas-fermentation technology, and he co-founded the company in 2021 alongside Torbjorn Olshoj Jensen and Max Kufner.

Expertise

• Synthetic Biology
• Metabolic Engineering
• Bacterial Physiology
• Research