Gibson Stephen Nyanhongo is a visiting Distinguished Professor of Biotechnology at the University of Johannesburg in the Department of Biotechnology and Food Technology, Faculty of Science, University of Johannesburg in South Africa. He holds a PhD in Biotechnology from Graz University of Technology in Austria. Before joining the University of Johannesburg, he worked at several academic institutions including University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna, heading the Biomaterial Engineering Technology research group (2013-2022), as Head of Department at the Botswana International University of Science and Technology (2015-2016). Professor Nyanhongo has being involved in more the 30 projects and extensively developed technologies for exploiting chitin for exploiting biobased technologies including exploitation of chitin. He is the cofounder of Agrobiogel GmbH, a company founded based on his innovative technology that enables producing wood based hydrogels for agriculture application.