Leonardo Gomez

Dr Leonardo Gomez is a Senior Research Fellow at the Center for Novel Agricultural Products and Carbohydrates Specialist at the Biorenewables Development Center, University of York. He works in the field of plant biomass improvement as a renewable feedstock for the production of sustainable biofuels and chemicals.

           He specialises in the use of plants as chemical platforms for the production of biorenewable products. He began his career in Argentina, where he held a permanent position as PI funded by the National Research Council. Following a period of three years as a visiting researcher at Rothamsted Research, UK, he moved to the University of York.

            Since 2003 he has been working at the Centre for Novel Agricultural Products (CNAP), where over the last nine years has set up, developed, and currently manages a High Throughput Biomass Analytical Facility, which is central to the cutting edge research in the field of second generation biofuels carried out at the CNAP. He also has the role of Carbohydrate Specialist at the Biorenewables Development Centre, an open-access R&D centre working at the interface between academia and industry to develop, scale-up and help commercialise bio-based products and processes.