Dr Naafs, Associate Professor in Organic Chemistry, will participate in the Stanford Science Fellows Program as a visiting scholar and he will be working together with geomicrobiologist Professor Paula Welander and synthetic chemist Professor Noah Burns on bacterial branched GMGT biosynthesis.

The Stanford Science Visiting Professorship is intended to support outstanding natural science faculty from other research institutions who come to the Stanford campus on a short-term basis for collaborative research and knowledge sharing with the Stanford Science Fellows, an interdisciplinary group of more than 25 postdocs in the natural sciences.