About
Dr Yosephine Gumulya is a Future Academic Leader in the School of Agriculture and Food Sustainability (AGFS) at the University of Queensland (UQ). She also leads a group at the UQ Biosustainability Hub in Australian Institute for Bioengineering and Nanotechnology. Her academic journey began after completing her PhD at the Max Planck Institute under Prof Reetz in protein engineering, Dr Gumulya joined UQ as a postdoctoral fellow where she developed novel tools for engineering highly thermostable and promiscuous enzymes. In 2016, she was awarded the prestigious Endeavour Scholarship to visit the lab of Prof Frances Arnold, a Noble Laureate in Chemistry, at Caltech in US. She then joined Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) as Research Scientist, focusing on engineering microbes for metal leaching from low grade ores. In 2021, she moved to Queensland University of Technology as Senior Research Postdoctoral Research fellow, focusing on methane mitigation and gut microbiome engineering. In 2024, she returned to UQ as Future Academic leader. Her research focus on using synthetic and system biology approaches to engineer proteins, microbes and microbiomes. She has successfully secured $2.5 M in funding from National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC), CSIRO, the Food and Beverage Accelerator program, ARC Centre of Excellence, and multiple industry partners. She has published over 32 peer-reviewed journal articles and holds three patent applications in protein engineering. She has co-supervised more than six PhD candidates and supervised numerous master’s students. Dr Gumulya is a member of the Australian Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology and serves on the AGFS Early and Mid-Career Academics Committee. She frequently speaks at national and international conferences and symposiums, reflecting her role as an emerging academic leader in protein engineering.
Joined
February 2025
