Dr. Christopher Chukwudi Okonkwo is an assistant teaching professor of biotechnology at the Roux Institute at Northeastern University. He has taught many courses in the professional science master’s biotechnology program at the Roux Institute, including experimental design and biostatistics, cell culture processes for biopharmaceutical production, molecular cell biology for biotechnology, and more. He has extensive experience teaching laboratory courses, including basic biotechnology laboratory skills and biotechnology applications laboratory skills. Okonkwo received his PhD in animal sciences with a specialization in biotechnology from The Ohio State University in 2017. He also holds master’s and bachelor’s degrees in biochemistry from the University of Nigeria. Okonkwo was a research associate in the Department of Animal Sciences at Ohio State University and at the Ohio Agricultural Research and Development Center prior to joining Northeastern University and the Roux Institute. His research has focused on using metabolic engineering, synthetic biology, and bioprocess design to develop microbial strains for converting waste into bioproducts and biochemicals.