Our Team

John Waite
Co-founder & CEO
Ian Hu
Co-founder & CTO
Nanakow Baiden
Senior Scientist
George Blundell-Hunter
Senior Scientist and Team Leader
Aranza Diaz
Director of R&D and Principal Scientist
Jonathan Collard
Strain Engineer
Oscar Marsden
Senior Scientist
Philippe Mozzanega
Research Scientist
Lucie Paoli
Research Associate
Ekta Kumari
Principal Scientist and Team Leader
Emily McGibbon
Director of Operations

Careers

We are not currently hiring, but we are always excited to meet great scientists.  If you like what we do then send us your CV.

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Our Beliefs

We founded Phycobloom because algae offer a natural and sustainable carbon fuel source.

In a sustainable future, biofuels will be needed to power the industries that other renewables cannot.

We need them to fuel planes and ships, and to create plastics and other products.

But the only biofuel that can be sustainably produced at scale is algae.

We believe we can make algae a viable alternative to fossil fuels and change the way we power our world.

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