Ryan Cardiff is a Molecular Engineering Ph.D. candidate at the University of Washington. Before UW, he studied at Stanford and worked at a climate-biotech startup. He is an inventor on three patents and an author on eight publications related to carbon-conserving metabolic engineering and synthetic biology. He has worked closely with several DOE National Laboratories throughout his Ph.D. on projects funded through BETO, BER, ABF, and ARPA-E programs. His company, C1 Bio, has participated in several startup programs including Nucleate Activator, NSF I-Corps, UW Gap Fund, and the Alaska Airlines Environmental Innovation Challenge, where they won the Climate Impact Award.