Susanna Leong graduated with a BEng (Chemical Engineering) and MPhil (Chemical Engineering) from the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology (UMIST). She obtained her PhD (Chemical Engineering) from Cambridge University in 2006, and joined the School of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering at Nanyang Technological University as Assistant Professor. In 2013, she joined the Singapore Institute of Technology and was instrumental in setting up the Chemical Engineering and Food Technology Cluster. She currently oversees Applied Research as Assistant Provost. Her areas of research interest include biomolecular engineering and synthetic biology, where she has contributed to more than 70 international peer reviewed publications and conference papers in these areas. She currently serves as an Editorial Board Member of Chemical Engineering Science and Food and Bioproducts Processing. She is also an Editorial Advisory Member of Heliyon. Susanna is both a Chartered and Professional Engineer, conferred by IChemE (UK) and Professional Engineering Board (Singapore), respectively