Cătălin Voiniciuc is an Associate Professor of Plant Synthetic Biology and focuses on bioengineering cell surfaces and carbohydrate polymers for agricultural, bioenergy and biomedical needs. After plant biology MSc and PhD degrees in Canada and Germany, he began applying SynBio for hemicellulose research. Since founding the Designer Glycans group (2019; relocated to Florida in 2022), he has been developing novel SynBio approaches to accelerate carbohydrate research and plant improvement.