My role as an Innovation Manager at NEPIC is to help drive forward innovation in decarbonisation and circular economy in the North East process industry, with a focus on solutions provided by industrial biotechnology. I have a multidisciplinary research background in biobased chemicals, circular economy and bioenergy, developed during my time at the University of Warwick (MBio in biochemistry) and the University of Leeds (integrated MSc and PhD in Bioenergy and post-doc). At NEPIC we are involved in a number of different projects to help support the North East process industry move towards Net Zero and innovation in circular chemical economy is an important part of this.