Birger Lindberg Møller (BLM) obtained his M.Sc., Ph.D. and D.Sc. from the University of Copenhagen in 1972, 1975 and 1984, respectively. He holds the position as Professor of Plant Biochemistry at the University of Copenhagen (UCPH), he is Director of the Center for Synthetic Biology supported by the UCPH Excellence Program for Interdisciplinary Research, Head of the VILLUM research center “Plant Plasticity” and Director of the Carlsberg Laboratory. In 2013, BLM was awarded a European Research Council Advanced grant. One of his major research interests is the development of crop plants for the future with improved resistance to climate change. Using synthetic biology approaches, BLM has pioneered the transfer of entire biosynthetic pathways for synthesis of structurally complex diterpenoids with important therapeutic properties into plant chloroplasts (TED talk: "Plant Power - The Ultimate Way to Go Green" http://synbio.ku.dk/news/tedxcph2012_talks/). The aim is to establish environmentally benign and robust production systems for high value drugs that would otherwise only be available following isolation from medicinal plants difficult to grow and where isolation is cumbersome due to their presence in low amounts. BLMs vision is to construct novel biological systems that can contribute to the transition of Europe towards being a bio-based society. BLM is an elected member of the Royal Danish Academy of Science and Letters and member of the International Human Rights Network of Academic and Scholarly Societies, Washington. In 2007, Birger Lindberg Møller was awarded the Villum Kann Rasmussen Research Prize, the largest Danish research award (350.000 Euro).