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Sustainable Biomaterials Faculty

Meet the faculty teaching Sustainable Biomaterials (SBIO)

Young Teck Kim, Asst Professor of Practice, and students, Sustainable Biomaterials, Brooks Forest Products Center. Packaging.

Sustainable Biomaterials (SBIO)

Core Faculty

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Kevin Edgar
Professor and Associate Dean, Graduate School

Expertise: Creation of drug delivery systems to meet patient needs, bioavailability enhancement, synthesis of novel polysaccharide deriv., more . . .

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Charles Frazier
Professor

Expertise:  Lignocellulose chemistry, biomass rheology, composite materials, and surface chemistry and adhesion, more...

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A.L. (Tom) Hammett
Professor

Expertise: International marketing and trade, non-timber forest products utilization and marketing, forest-based economic development, more . . .

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Daniel Hindman
Professor

Expertise:  Wood building design, mechanical properties of wood, stability of wood i-joists, torsional stiffness of wood members, more . . . 

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Ching-Hsun Huang
Professor

Expertise: Economics of renewable energy, forest ecosystem services, carbon sequestration, optimal forest management, wildfire economics, more...

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Maren Roman
Professor

Expertise:  Self-assembly and colloidal properties of cellulose nanocrystals, surface functionalization of cellulose nanocrystals, more . . .

Sustainable Biomaterials (SBIO)

Contributing Faculty

Jennifer Russell

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Jennifer Russell
Associate Professor

Expertise: Dynamic production-consumption systems for sustainable products and technologies, life-cycle impacts more …

Kiara Winans

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Kiara Winans
Collegiate Assistant Professor

Expertise:  Industrial ecology, life-cycle assessment, social ecology, more...