Professor Olaf Kruse from Bielefeld University, Kyle's former PhD supervisor, visited the SSB Lab and gave a seminar entitled: "Bioengineering microalgae for their application as green cell factories".

Olaf Kruse started his scientific carrier as a PostDoc at Imperial College London with research topics on Plant Molecular Biology. In 2006, he was appointed as the Head of Life, Earth & Environmental Sciences at the European Science Foundation (ESF) in Strasbourg/France. In 2007, he became a Research Fellow at The University of Queensland/ Australia. In 2009, he was appointed as Full Professor at Bielefeld University/Germany and in 2015 as the Scientific Director of the Center for Biotechnology (CeBiTec). His research as Chair of Algae Biotechnology focusses on Molecular Biology and Synthetic Biology of microalgae to establish them as sustainable green cell factories.