Victor Ujor
Assistant Professor of Food Science
Fermentation, renewable fuels and biochemicals, metabolic engineering/synthetic biology, bioprocess design, bioconversion of food wastes and agricultural residues to value-added products.
I am an avid football (soccer) fan – yes, I am a passionate supporter of the Chelsea Football Club of London, England (the best football team in the world). I also enjoy traveling, reading and spending time with my family – i.e., indoctrinating my son into the Chelsea family.
(608) 263-5144
Areas of Study
My research interests are in the areas of sustainable biomanufacturing, unravelling metabolic bottlenecks that limit microbial production of fuels and chemicals, synthetic biology towards enhanced production of bio-chemicals, and improving and deploying the metabolic dexterity of microbial systems to mop up excess nutrients in waste streams, while producing important chemicals. As the global population increases, it becomes increasingly important to develop sustainable technologies for producing chemicals that drive our industries while exerting significant influences on food production and processing. Further, growing concerns over climate change and its impact on water supply call for advanced measure to recover water from currently untreated waste streams. Bio-based systems hold considerable promise towards meeting these goals. My overarching research goal is to contribute towards sustainable production of value-added chemicals, whilst ensuring that effluents with benign impacts on the environment are generated.