Thomas Treynor, PhD

Thomas Treynor is a senior scientist at Amyris Biotechnologies, a synthetic biology company that produces sustainable chemicals, fuels, and consumer products using engineered microorganisms. Treynor earned his undergraduate degree from Yale University before completing his Ph.D. in chemistry at Stanford University, where his fellowship began in 1997. His doctoral training in physical chemistry has been applied to the development and optimization of biosynthetic pathways in metabolic engineering—designing microorganisms to produce valuable molecules from sustainable feedstocks.