2021 Keynote Speakers
Eunice Heath, M.B.A.
Global Director
Environment, Health, Safety & Sustainability
Dow
Keynote: Monday, June 14
“What’s your legacy? Building purpose at the
intersection of inclusion and sustainability”
Gregg Beckham, Ph.D.
Senior Research Fellow & Group Leader
National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL)
Keynote: Tuesday, June 15
“The critical role of economic and environmental analysis to
guide research in lignin valorization and plastics upcycling”
B. Frank Gupton, Ph.D.
Professor & Floyd D. Gottwald Junior Chair
in Pharmaceutical Engineering
Department of Chemical & Life Science Engineering
Virginia Commonwealth University
Keynote: Thursday, June 17
“Searching for Greenness in a Post-Pandemic World”
Amy Prieto, Ph.D.
Professor, Department of Chemistry
Colorado State University;
CTO of Prieto Battery
Keynote: Friday, June 18
2021 Lectureship Award Speakers
The 2021 Lectureship Award speakers will present their keynotes on Wednesday, June 16.
Jun Huang, Ph.D.
Professor, SOAR Fellowship
School of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering
Director of the Laboratory for Catalysis Engineering
The University of Sydney
Keynote: Wednesday, June 16
“Optimising the sustainability of the catalytic process in producing fuels and chemicals”
Jeremy Luterbacher, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Laboratory of Sustainable & Catlytic Processing
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL)
Keynote: Wednesday, June 16
“Direct production of bulk chemicals from lignocellulosic biomass by acetal functionalization”
