Innovator Profile
Arthur Ragauskas
Department Head, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering Governor's Chair for Biorefining
In 2014, he assumed a Governor’s Chair for Biorefining based in University of Tennessee’s Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, with a complementary appointment in the UT Institute of Agriculture’s Department of Forestry, Wildlife, and Fisheries and serves in the US Energy and Environmental Sciences Directorate, Biosciences Division, at ORNL. His research program is directed at understanding and exploiting innovative sustainable bioresources. This multifaceted program is targeted to develop new and improved applications for nature’s premier renewable biopolymers for biofuels, biopower, and bio-based materials and chemicals.
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