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
Sustainable manufacturing for next generation rechargeable batteries
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 & Catalytic Processing
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL)
Keynote: Wednesday, June 16
“Direct production of bulk chemicals from lignocellulosic biomass by acetal functionalization”
