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Cleo Kontoravdi is Professor of Biological Systems Engineering at the Department of Chemical Engineering, Imperial College London. She is known for the development of comprehensive platforms for bioprocess understanding, design and optimisation and works extensively with industry, including AstraZeneca, GSK, Amgen and Eli Lilly, on the design and digitalisation of synthetic and cell-based manufacturing processes. Beyond protein-based therapeutics, her team is also developing computational tools for the design of innovative vaccine manufacturing platforms, such as Ribonucleic acid (RNA) vaccines.