Gregg Beckham, Ph.D. Senior Research Fellow I, National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Developing hybrid catalytic and biological processes for the valorization of plastics and lignin

Seminar

This BIOE 225 Seminar will be hosted in person.

Speaker:

Gregg Beckham, Ph.D.
Senior Research Fellow I
Chemical Engineering
National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL)

Faculty Host
Michelle O'Malley & Rachel Segalman

Developing hybrid catalytic and biological processes for the valorization of plastics and lignin

Abstract:

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Bio:

Gregg T. Beckham is a Senior Research Fellow at NREL and an Affiliate Faculty member in Chemistry at CSU. He received his PhD in Chemical Engineering at MIT in 2007. He currently leads and works with an interdisciplinary team of biologists, chemists, and engineers at NREL on conversion of biomass to chemicals and materials and plastics upcycling. His research focuses on conversion of biomass to fuels, chemicals, and materials including in the areas of metabolic engineering, fermentation, separations, chemical catalysis, biopolymer production, cellulase enzyme improvements, renewable carbon fiber production, theory and simulation to design biological and chemical catalysts, and lignin valorization.