April 2013 Symposium
April 2013 UF Symposium Presentations
Dr. Sam Baldwin, Chief Science Officer at the Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy at the U.S. Department of Energy Sam Baldwin is a Ph.D. Physicist and currently serves as the Chief Scientist for the Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy at the U.S. Department of Energy. In previous positions he has served with the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP), the National Renewable Energy Laboratory, the Congressional Office of Technology Assessment (OTA), Princeton University, the Sahelian Atnti-Drought Committee (CILSS) in West Africa, the U.S. Senate, and elsewhere. He is the author of 9 books and monographs at OSTP, OTA, DOE and elsewhere, and more than 30 papers and technical reports on energy technology and policy, physics, and other issues. He was elected as a fellow of the American Association for the Advantage of Science in 2007.
Dr. Brent Shanks, Mike and Jean Steffenson Professor in Chemical and Biological Engineering and Director of NSFs Engineering Research Center for Bio-renewable Chemicals at Iowa State University
Dr. Brent Shanks is the Mike and Jean Steffenson Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering at Iowa State University and Director of National Science Foundation Engineering Research Center for Biorenewable Chemicals (CBiRC). He received his B.S. degree from Iowa State University in 1983 and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the California Institute of Technology in 1985 and 1988, respectively. From 1988 to 1999 he worked as a Research Engineer and Department Manager in the Catalyst Department at the Shell Chemical Company technology center in Houston, Texas. While at Shell, he was involved in the development and commercialization of catalysts used in petrochemicals production. He joined the faculty at Iowa State University in 1999 where his work has primarily involved the research and development of novel heterogeneous catalyst system for efficiently converting biological-based feedstocks to chemicals and fuels.
| Biofuels Challenges and Opportunities Part. 1 | Biofuels Challenges and Opportunities Part. 2 |
| Biofuels Challenges and Opportunities Part. 3 | Biofuels Challenges and Opportunities Part. 4 |
