Sergii Krysenko earned a BS in Biology (2011) from the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy (Ukraine) and an MS in Biology (2015) from the Dresden Technical University (Germany), following by a PhD in Biology (2018) from University of Tübingen (Germany), where he subsequently served as a Junior Group Leader (2020-2022). He is now a Research Scientist at Valent Biosciences, Biorational Research Center (USA). His work in the field of polyamine and monoamine metabolism in Streptomyces, as well as drug development, has resulted in 15+ publications, presentations, lectures, and courses at the University of Tübingen and at the Gordon Research Conferences, as well as memberships, including Sigma XI, FEMS, VAAM, and scholarship awards including Deutschlandstipendium. His/her research interests include bacterial metabolism and physiology, mono- and polyamine metabolism in bacteria, biotechnology, and drug development.