Tim Schnabel
Tim Schnabel is a scientist, entrepreneur, and author.[1][2][3][4] He is the Founder and CEO of Switch Bioworks, a synthetic biology company engineering microbes for sustainable fertilizer production.[5][6]
Education
Schnabel holds a B.S. in Chemical Engineering, a M.S. and PhD in Bioengineering from Stanford University.[7] Amongst others, Schnabel received the Terman Award for high scholastic achievement in engineering.[8]Schnabel was president and then Advisory Board Chair of the Stanford chapter of Tau Beta Pi, the National Engineering Honor Society.[9]
Research
Schnabel started his research career in the James Swartz biotechnology laboratory at Stanford. His research on the biological production of hydrogen fuel from sunlight received Stanford's Kennedy Thesis Prize, the highest university recognition for undergraduate research.[10] Part of the work involved building H2PAD, a high-throughput screening platform for biological hydrogen production.[11]
During his PhD research, Schnabel worked on engineering microbes for ammonia production in the Elizabeth Sattely laboratory as a BioX Bowes Fellow of interdisciplinary research.[12] He invented a controllable mechanism for ammonia release.[13][14][15] This work was continued during a short Postdoc in the Bioengineering department chair's lab, Jennifer Cochran, before it spun out into the company Switch Bioworks.[16]
Entrepreneurship
Schnabel was an Accel Innovation Scholar of Stanford's Technology Ventures Program (STVP), which trains engineering PhD candidates to become startup founders.[17]
Switch Bioworks was founded by Schnabel as CEO, with Prof. Sattely, Prof. Swartz, Prof. Cochran, and Amy Chang as Founding Advisors.[18][19][20] The mission of the company is to replace unsustainable chemical nitrogen fertilizer with bioengineered microbes that release ammonia under precise control of synthetic biology.[21] Managing the nitrogen cycle is part of the National Academy of Engineering grand challenges of the century.[22] The company is located in San Carlos, California and raised $4.3m from Anthos Capital, Acre Venture Partners, Emerson Collective, and several others in 2022.[23]
Personal
Schnabel is the author of: Wake up! A young person’s guide to spirituality.[2] He is a beekeeper, home-brewer and social dancer. His interests also include budget travel, chess, and piano.[2] Schnabel was born in Germany.
References
- ↑ "Founders". Switch Bioworks. Retrieved 2022-09-12.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Schnabel, Tim (2020). Wake Up! A Young Person's Guide To Spirituality. Amazon. ISBN 979-8583547845. Search this book on
- ↑ "Tim Schnabel | Stanford University School of Engineering". engineering.stanford.edu. Retrieved 2022-09-12.
- ↑ "Using nature's miracle bugs to help feed the world | Stanford University School of Engineering". engineering.stanford.edu. Retrieved 2022-09-12.
- ↑ "Founders". Switch Bioworks. Retrieved 2022-09-12.
- ↑ Neuhauser, Alan (2022-05-25). "Exclusive: Switch Bioworks harvests $4.3m for fertilizer". Axios. Retrieved 2022-09-12.
- ↑ "Tim Schnabel | Stanford University School of Engineering". engineering.stanford.edu. Retrieved 2022-09-12.
- ↑ "Terman Awards 2014-2015 | Stanford University School of Engineering". engineering.stanford.edu. Retrieved 2022-09-12.
- ↑ "Advisory Board – Tau Beta Pi California Gamma Chapter at Stanford". Retrieved 2022-09-12.
- ↑ Ray, Elaine (2015-07-02). "Graduating seniors awarded 2015 Firestone and Golden medals, Kennedy Thesis Prize". Stanford University. Retrieved 2022-09-12.
- ↑ Koo, Jamin; Schnabel, Tim; Liong, Sylvie; Evitt, Niklaus H.; Swartz, James R. (2017-01-19). "High-Throughput Screening of Catalytic H 2 Production". Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 56 (4): 1012–1016. doi:10.1002/anie.201610260.
- ↑ University, © Stanford; Stanford; California 94305 (2015-07-16). "Tim Schnabel - Bio-X Bowes Fellow". Welcome to Bio-X. Retrieved 2022-09-12.
- ↑ "Using nature's miracle bugs to help feed the world | Stanford University School of Engineering". engineering.stanford.edu. Retrieved 2022-09-12.
- ↑ Schnabel, Tim; Sattely, Elizabeth (2021-06-25). Alexandre, Gladys, ed. "Engineering Posttranslational Regulation of Glutamine Synthetase for Controllable Ammonia Production in the Plant Symbiont Azospirillum brasilense". Applied and Environmental Microbiology. 87 (14): e00582–21. doi:10.1128/AEM.00582-21. ISSN 0099-2240. PMC 8231714 Check
|pmc=value (help). PMID 33962983 Check|pmid=value (help). - ↑ Schnabel, Tim; Sattely, Elizabeth (2021-11-19). "Improved Stability of Engineered Ammonia Production in the Plant-Symbiont Azospirillum brasilense". ACS Synthetic Biology. 10 (11): 2982–2996. doi:10.1021/acssynbio.1c00287. ISSN 2161-5063. PMC 8604774 Check
|pmc=value (help). PMID 34591447 Check|pmid=value (help). - ↑ "Tim Schnabel Leaves the Lab to Start Switch Bioworks". Cochran Lab - Stanford University. Retrieved 2022-09-12.
- ↑ "Accel Leadership Program". Stanford Technology Ventures Program. Retrieved 2022-09-12.
- ↑ "News". Switch Bioworks. Retrieved 2022-09-12.
- ↑ Neuhauser, Alan (2022-05-25). "Exclusive: Switch Bioworks harvests $4.3m for fertilizer". Axios. Retrieved 2022-09-12.
- ↑ Thomas, Shane. "Upstream Ag Insights - May 29th 2022". upstreamaginsights.substack.com. Retrieved 2022-09-12.
- ↑ "Switch Bioworks". Switch Bioworks. Retrieved 2022-09-12.
- ↑ "Grand Challenges - Manage the Nitrogen Cycle". www.engineeringchallenges.org. Retrieved 2022-09-12.
- ↑ Senatus, Roodgally (2022-05-31). "Switch Bioworks raises $4.3 million for sustainable nitrogen biofertilizer". ImpactAlpha. Retrieved 2022-09-12.
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