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Gregg Beckham

Gregg is a Senior Research Fellow and Group Leader at NREL and a member of the National Academy of Engineers. He received his Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering at MIT in 2007. He works with an interdisciplinary team of researchers at NREL on biomass conversion and plastics recycling and redesign. His primary areas of expertise are in process development for the conversion of waste feedstocks, including lignin and plastics, to value-added products. He has published more than 250 peer-reviewed articles and received the Society of Industrial Microbiology (SIMB) Young Investigator Award, the SIMB Charles Scott Award, the Royal Society of Chemistry Beilby Medal and Prize.