Research Interests

• Renewable fuels and chemicals

• Waste valorization

• Catalyst poisoning and regeneration

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Education

• Ph.D., Chemistry, Indiana University at Bloomington, 2005–2010

• B.S., Chemistry, University of Nebraska at Lincoln, 2002–2005

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Professional Experience

• Scientist III, National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), National Bioenergy Center, 2013–present

• Postdoctoral Researcher, NREL, Thermal Systems Group, 2010–2013

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Featured Publications

1. "Effects of Torrefaction Temperature on Pyrolysis Vapor Products of Woody and Herbaceous Feedstocks," Energy and Fuels (online 2016)

2. "Biomass Catalytic Pyrolysis on Ni/ZSM-5: Effects of Nickel Pretreatment and Loading," Energy and Fuels (online 2016)

3. "Effect of ZSM-5 acidity on aromatic product selectivity during upgrading of pine pyrolysis vapors," Catalysis Today (online 2015)

4. "Reactions of mixture of oxygenates found in pyrolysis vapors: deoxygenation of hydroxyacetaldehyde and guaiacol catalyzed by HZSM-5 ," Topics in Catalysis (2015)

5. "Field-to-Fuel Performance Testing of Lignocellulosic Feedstocks: An Integrated Study of the Fast Pyrolysis-Hydrotreating Pathway," Energy and Fuels (2015)

6. "One-Pot Shear Synthesis of Gallium, Indium and Indium-Bismuth Nanofluids: an Experimental and Computational Study," Journal of Nanotechnology in Engineering and Medicine (2014)

7. "Can particle-stabilized inorganic dispersions be high-temperature heat-transfer and thermal energy storage fluids?" Journal of Materials Science (2013)

8. "Nanofluid Heat Capacities," Journal of Applied Physics (2011)

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