Prof. Dr Maria Suarez Diez is Chairholder at the Laboratory of Systems and Synthetic Biology at Wageningen University & Research. She is also the president of the Dutch Biotechnology Association.

The Laboratory of Systems and Synthetic Biology contributes to elucidate mechanisms underlying basic cellular processes, evolution and interactions among microbes and between microbes and their environment (including the human host).  The acquired knowledge is translated into biotechnological, medical and environmental applications.

The research of Prof Suarez Diez is focused on building and using mathematical and statistical models to gain systems level understanding of the dynamics of cellular networks. She has worked in modelling microbial metabolism, microbial communities and on large scale integration of heterogeneous datasets. Her work exploits semantic technologies to develop mathematical models to predict of complex phenotypes from multiple heterogeneous sources.