VIRTUAL: Transformative decarbonization research led by WashU featuring Dr. Joshua Yuan

Join us for our discussion of a major new decarbonization project being led by WashU’s Joshua Yuan, Chair of the Department of Energy, Environmental & Chemical Engineering in McKelvey Engineering; the Lucy & Stanley Lopata Professor; and the Director of CURB (Carbon Utilization Redesign for Biomanufacturing-Empowered Decarbonization).

Joshua Yuan has built a career in developing, disseminating, and implementing sustainability solutions for the future. He currently serves as the Lucy & Stanley Lopata Professor, chair for the Department of Energy, Environmental and Chemical Engineering, and director of Carbon Utilization Redesign for Biomanufacturing-Empowered Decarbonization (CURB) Engineering Research Center at Washington University’s McKelvey School of Engineering. Previously, he was a faculty member at Texas A&M University and was appointed as the chair for Synthetic Biology and Renewable Products in 2018. He has served as the director of the Synthetic and Systems Biology Innovation Hub since 2015. His research focuses on carbon capture and utilization, renewable biomaterials, biomass processing and biorefining, as well as synthetic and systems biology. His research team has developed a variety of methods for carbon capture and conversion, including algae-based and electro-microbial hybrid processes.

Professor Yuan has been awarded four U.S. patents and has five more pending. He has written more than 100 peer-reviewed journal articles published in Joule, Chem, Matter, Nature Communications, Green Chemistry, Advanced Sciences, and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, among others. He has won numerous awards and honors, including the Excellence in Innovation Award from Texas A&M University System in 2017 and the Gamma Sigma Delta Outstanding Graduate Student Award in 2007. He is a fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry.

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