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Eric Karp

Eric has over a decade of experience in biofuels, natural products, catalysis, and end-to-end bioprocess development in both government run national laboratories and in industry. He has over 36 peer reviewed publications, and is the inventor on multiple patents currently being used in biomanufacturing. He has won numerous awards notably; an R&D 100 award in 2017, the Federal Laboratory Consortium for Technology Transfer award in 2017, was appointed a Distinguished Member of the Research Staff at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory in 2021, and won the University of Washington’s Early Career Impact Award for Chemical Engineers in 2023 among others.