Dr. Yee Hwee Lim currently leads a team of more than 25 researchers in the Chemical Biotechnology and Biocatalysis division at the A*STAR Institute of Sustainability for Chemicals, Energy and Environment (A*STAR ISCE2) to develop integrative technologies at the interface between chemistry, biology, informatics, and engineering for sustainable chemical manufacturing. She obtained her joint PhD/DPhil from The Scripps Research Institute, USA and the University of Oxford, UK, where she was trained in natural product total synthesis (Prof. KC Nicolaou) and fluorination radiochemistry (Prof V Gouverneur), respectively. She is also an adjunct Associate Professor at the Synthetic Biology Translational Research Program, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore (NUS) (2021–present). Other previous appointments include Adjunct Assistant Professor at the LKC School of Medicine, NTU (2013–2018) and Director of Graduate Affairs, SERC at A*GA (2020–2023), and editorial member of A*STAR Research magazine (2021–2023). Her research interests include biocatalyst development, chemoenzymatic synthesis and informatics-driven molecular design.