July 2020

Brian H. Davison is Chief Scientist for Systems Biology and Biotechnology, Oak Ridge National Laboratory and is Chief Science Officer in the DOE Center For Bioenergy Innovation (cbi.ornl.gov). He has 170+ publications and 15 patents in bioprocessing, industrial microbiology, biofuels and bioproducts. His PhD in ChemE. is from California Institute of Technology and BS in ChemE from U of Rochester. He co-chaired the 15th to 26th Symposia on Biotechnology for Fuels and Chemicals. He is on the Board of the Society for Biological Engineering. Honors include an R&D100 for bio-succinic acid,...Read more

Scott Nicholson joined the staff of the National Renewable Energy Laboratory in 2016.  He has been involved in a variety of projects focusing on environmental impact and life cycle assessment modeling, as well as electricity capacity expansion modeling. Scott’s research has recently focused on the plastics sector, comparing petrochemical-derived plastic supply chains to those of novel, bio-derived polymers. Scott holds a Bachelor’s degree in chemical engineering from Tufts University and a Master’s degree in Mineral and Energy Economics from the Colorado School of Mines....Read more

Kamil A. Khan is an assistant professor of chemical engineering at McMaster University. He received his B.S.E. degree in chemical engineering from Princeton University and his Ph.D in chemical engineering from MIT, and was a Director’s Postdoctoral Fellow in the Mathematics and Computer Science Division of the Argonne National Laboratory. His research focuses on developing numerical methods for analysis and optimization of nonconvex process systems.Read more