Natalio Krasnogor is Professor of Computing Science and Synthetic Biology at Newcastle University, co-directs Newcastle’s Interdisciplinary Computing and Complex BioSystems (ICOS – http://ico2s.org/) research group and is the director of the Centre for Synthetic Biology and the Bioeconomy (CSBB – http://www.ncl.ac.uk/csbb/). Krasnogor holds a EPSRC Leadership Fellowship in Synthetic Biology (grant EP/J004111/1 &