Dr Eve Bird, Research and Innovation Director, Celtic Renewables, is an industrial biotechnologist who heads up research and innovation at Celtic Renewables. She has worked in the biobased chemicals industry for over a decade and is an international expert in the industrial acetone-butanol-ethanol (ABE) fermentation process, where her work ranges from genomes to bioreactors. Eve has risen to the top of her field and leads a highly skilled multi-disciplinary innovation team behind the world’s first ABE facility run on sustainable distillery by-products. She was the first recipient of the Achiever Award at the inaugural Scottish Renewables Young Professionals Green Energy Awards for her work in helping Celtic Renewables achieve a world first in producing viable biofuel from whisky industry waste products.