A professor of Physiology at Maastrich University, and a visiting professor at Harvard and the University of Modena. He was the first person in the world to introduce a cultured beef burger. He co-founded Mosa Meat, the Dutch company that aims to bring the first lab-cultivated beef burger to the market, and he serves there as the Chief Scientific Officer. He is also the founder and the Chief Scientific Officer at Qorium, a biotech company offering premium, cell cultured collagen based leather. His companies currently employ 170 people, more than half of whom are scientists. Also thanks to their work tissue engineering will be an exciting and unmissable in the food or fashion industry for decades to come. 

His main research interest is the engineering of tissues for various applications. Tissue engineering for Food has led to the development of cultured beef from bovine skeletal muscle stem cells. The same technology is used to culture leather. Dr Post co-authored 200 papers in leading peer-reviewed scientific journals and coordinated several national consortia with funding and awards from different sources including government, charity and industry. He is a frequent speaker at international events on innovation in the agrifood sector. He presented the world’s first hamburger from cultured beef in the August 2013 for which he received the World Technology Award from AAAS/Times/Forbes.