Governor's Chair Professor
Arthur RagauskasProfile page
Chemical Engineering
Orcid identifier0000-0002-3536-554X
- Chemical Engineering
- 865-974-2042 (Work)
- The University of Tennessee-Knoxville, Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Department of Forestry, Wildlife, and Fisheries, 1512 Middle Drive, Knoxville, TN, 37996, USA
BIO
Arthur Ragauskas held the first Fulbright Chair in Alternative Energy and is a Fellow of American Association for the Advancement of Science, the International Academy of Wood Science and TAPPI. In 2014, he assumed a Governor’s Chair for Biorefining based in University of Tennessee’s Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, with a complementary appointment in the UT Institute of Agriculture’s Department of Forestry, Wildlife, and Fisheries and serves in the US Energy and Environmental Sciences Directorate, Biosciences Division, at ORN. His research program is directed at understanding and exploiting innovative sustainable bioresources. This multifaceted program is targeted to develop new and improved applications for natures premiere renewable biopolymers for biofuels, biopower, and bio-based materials and chemicals. His research program has been sponsored by NSF, USDA, DOE, GA Traditional Industry Program, a consortium of industry partners, and several fellowship programs. His Fulbright sponsored activities at Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden were focused on the forest biorefinery and new biofuel conversion technologies for lignocellulosics. He is the recipient of the 2014 TAPPI Gunnar Nicholson Gold Medal Award, ACS Affordable Green Chemistry award, RSC Environment, Sustainability and Energy Division open award: Environment Prize (2022), 2019 AIChE Chase Award, Joint Faculty Award in Science and Technology, UT-Battelle (2019), Fellow Royal Society of Chemistry (2018), Green Process Engineering American Institute of Chemical Engineers Award (2017), University of California, Bourns College of Engineering – Center for Environmental Research and Technology, Distinguished Service Award (2017), and his students have won several awards, including the ACS graduate research award.
ACADEMIC POSITIONS
- ProfessorGeorgia Institute of Technology, School of Chemistry and Biochemistry, United States2 Jun 2003 - 30 Jun 2014
- ProfessorInstitute of Paper Science and Technology, Wood Chemistry, United States1 Sep 1989 - 1 Jun 2003
NON-ACADEMIC POSITIONS
- Associate Research ScientistNational Research Council of Canada2 Jun 1987 - 1 Aug 1989
DEGREES
- Ph.D., ScienceUniversity of Western Ontario, Canada2 Aug 1980 - 2 Jun 1985
POSTGRADUATE TRAINING
- National Science and Engineering Research Council of Canada Postdoctoral FellowUniversity of Alberta, CanadaCarbohydrate ChemistryPostdoctoral FellowshipSupervised by Lemieux
LANGUAGES
- EnglishCan read, write, speak, understand and peer review
- SwedishCan speak and understand