David Virant is the Head of Industrial Biotechnology at ACIES Bio, where he directs the development of next-generation microbial cell factories and metabolic engineering initiatives. With a primary focus on sustainable biomanufacturing, his core expertise lies in harnessing C1 feedstocks. He leads the development of novel methodologies for the OneCarbonBio methanol fermentation platform, engineering methylotrophic organisms to convert renewable carbon sources into value-added chemicals.He earned his PhD in 2019 at the Max Planck Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology, where he developed tools and algorithms for super-resolution microscopy to image multi-protein complexes. Building upon degrees in microbiology and post-genome biology, this background provides him with a multi-scale understanding of cellular behavior, from biophysical interactions at the single-molecule level to high-density fermentation dynamics. At ACIES Bio, David applies this blend of deep biological intuition and bioinformatics expertise to build scalable microbial platforms that drive the transition toward a sustainable bioeconomy.