Dong Zhao

Co-founder and Chief Scientific Officer @Differential Bio

Munich, DE

We are building the Virtual Scale-up Platform for bioprocess optimization.Our goal is to provide the digital infrastructure for industrial biomanufacturing. By integrating scale-down experiments with robotic lab automation and computational modeling, we optimize how microbes grow and produce—boosting yield, cutting costs, and accelerating R&D. From biomass to precision fermentation, we’re making biology predictable, programmable, and production-ready. We are Differential.

Zhejiang University

Master's degree

Technische Universität München

Beverage biotechnology

Shandong University of Technology

Bachelor's degree