Simon Kelterborn was educated in molecular biology at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University in Munich. Inspired by the concepts of synthetic biology, he pursues his PhD in developing gene editing tools for the use in microalgae at the Humboldt University in Berlin. Within SynBio Markets, Simon is the voice of the German Association for Synthetic Biology (GASB e.V.), which is the German platform for the SynBio community and is dedicated to channel people and ideas from academia to the bio economy.