I am an EBRC (Engineering Biology Research Consortium) council member and a SynBYSS (Synthetic Biology Young Speaker Series) chair. I have expertise in systems and synthetic biology. I aim to solve global agricultural, environmental, manufacturing, and health problems through engineering biology. My research projects have been supported by Gates Foundation, AIChE, and 11 different US agencies (23 external grants), and I have secured >$10M (>$37M for the entire teams since 7/1/2012). These projects and my prior research efforts have resulted in 83 publications (72 as the PI), 155 invited talks, 163 contributed conference presentations, and 10 patents. My achievements have also been recognized with many awards, including a Langer Prize for Innovation and Entrepreneurial Excellence, a B&B Daniel I.C. Wang Award, an NSF CAREER award, an ONR Young Investigator Award, a John C. Sluder Fellowship (MIT), an ILJU Foundation Award, an LG Chemical Fellowship, and the SNU President Prize. I am deeply committed to spending the time required to promote the career development of my advisees and young researchers in the world. I have advised 114 young researchers who are diverse in race, gender, and nationality since 2012, including 22 students in other labs as a committee member, 29 undergrad researchers, 6 international Genetically Engineered Machine (iGEM) competition teams (not counted toward 114), 31 grad rotation students (excluding ones who joined my lab permanently), 18 PhD students (8 students graduated), 3 MS students (funded by me), 3 technicians, and 8 postdoctoral researchers. Among these 29 undergrad researchers, 12 students chose to pursue grad studies in STEM. Many lab members have received fellowships & awards for their research, and lab alumni are contributing to society in universities, national labs, and industries (e.g., one developed the Pfizer COVID vaccine). In addition, teaching kits have been developed and distributed to more than 40 high school science teachers and hundreds of K-12 students, broadening impacts on STEM education. I have been an active member of the global community of researchers who work in the fields of chemical engineering and bioengineering. I have actively participated in organizing many international conferences as a conference co-chair or organizer. I have also served as a reviewer, an editor-in-chief, an editor, or an editorial board member for >50 journals, including Nature/Science/Cell journals, Nucleic Acids Res., and PNAS. Notably, my global leadership efforts include 1) my activity and role at EBRC as a Council Member to provide the vision to address national and global needs through synthetic biology and 2) my service to SynBYSS as the Founding Chair to provide a weekly, virtual, and multi-year forum where a global thought leader gives an opening 5 min talk, followed by a 45 min, rising star’s talk, for >1,000 global audiences. Tae Seok Moon, Professor SynBYSS Chair & EBRC Council Member Editor-in-Chief of New Biotechnology starting Jan. 2024 (Elsevier) Associate Editor of Biotechnol. Biofuel. & Bioprod. (Springer Nature) Associate Editor of Microbial Cell Factory (Springer Nature) Associate Editor of Biotechnol. Environ (Springer Nature) Senior Editor of Crit. Insights Biotechnol. (Taylor & Francis) Specialty Chief Editor of Front. Synth. Biol. (Frontiers) Associate Editor of Front. Synth. Biol. (Frontiers, Metabolic Engineering) Associate Editor of BioDesign Research (AAAS) Editorial Board member of ACS Synthetic Biology, OUP Synthetic Biology, Metabolic Engineering Commun., Biomolecules, Biotechnol. Sustainable Materials, Blue Biotechnol. and Biotechnology Note https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCTkyl4Uw1NlpuLCeP4Zi8aA https://sites.wustl.edu/moonlab/ http://www.twitter.com/Moon_Synth_Bio https://www.linkedin.com/in/tae-seok-moon-12515b23 https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8373-9051