​Charlotte A.E. Hauser is Professor of Bioscience at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Thuwal, Saudi Arabia. Before joining KAUST, she was a Principal Investigator at the Institute of Bioengineering and Nanotechnology, A*Star, Singapore, and Adjunct Professor at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. She is a Fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineers (AIMBE) and has been elected in 2015 to the rank of NAI Fellow by the US National Academy of Inventors (NAI). After her Ph.D. in Molecular Biology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, she joined INSERM in Paris, and the Max-Planck-Institute of Psychiatry in Munich, Germany. Furthermore, she was a founder and Managing Director of Octagene in Munich/Martinsried, Germany, where she developed the newest human recombinant coagulation factor VIII (hFVIII), approved in 2014 by FDA, EMEA and other regulatory authorities and available under the trade name of NUWIQ®. Her research includes molecular self-assembly, synthetic peptide biomaterials, amyloidogenesis, and regenerative therapies.