Luis Valencia
CEO
AlkaLi Labs
Luis Valencia is the co-founder and CEO of AlkaLi Labs, a biomining company developing biosorbents to extract valuable metals from low-grade waste streams. Valencia earned a B.S. in biochemistry from University of Texas at Austin and a Ph.D. in bioengineering from UC Berkeley in the Keasling Lab. His career focus has been on protein and metabolic engineering for industrial biosynthesis. Luis is passionate about applying biochemistry to challenges where conventional chemical methods fall short.