Chris Eiben is a Ph.D. scientist turned entrepreneur, focusing on addressing sustainability challenges in agriculture, climate, and material production through biological solutions. He is the founder of Perlumi, a startup dedicated to enhancing harvests through synthetic biology.

Chris's expertise and interests lie in synthetic biology, metabolic engineering, enzyme engineering, entrepreneurship/startups, food, fiber, and materials production, as well as gigaton-scale solutions.

He pursued Bioengineering and Biomedical Engineering at UC Berkeley, Cell/Cellular and Molecular Biology at the University of Washington for his Bachelor of Science, and further Bioengineering and Biomedical Engineering studies at UCSF.

Chris Eiben has held key positions such as Founder and CEO at Perlumi, Entrepreneurial Research Fellow at Cyclotron Road at Activate, Postdoctoral Researcher at Berkeley Lab, Bioengineering Graduate Student at UC Berkeley, Research Scientist at the University of Washington, and Lab Technician at the University of Washington.