Focus Areas:

• Techno-economic analysis and scale-up of biobased and agricultural systems
• Life cycle assessment of biobased and agricultural systems
• Feedstock production and supply logistics for biobased and agro-industries
• Preprocessing, densification and thermal processing of lignocellulosic biomass
• Establishing Taraxacum kok-saghyz (TKS) – an alternative natural rubber plant – through direct seeding
• Exploring practices to improve post-harvest grain management of small farm operators in developing countries

• Biobased systems analysis
• Sustainable agricultural production
• Feedstock supply and logistics
• Process modeling
• Techno-economic analysis
• Life cycle assessment
• Sustainability
• Cellulosic biofuels
• Grain storage