Dinesh Chandrakant Yeragi is a postdoctoral research associate at the Center for Sustainable Environmental Technologies at Iowa State University. He received his bachelor of chemical engineering in 1998 from the University of Mumbai in India and his MS in chemical engineering from the University of Saskatchewan in Canada. In 2007 he earned his PhD in chemical and biological engineering from Iowa State.

DongWon Choi is a post-doctoral research associate in the Center for Sustainable Environmental Technologies (CSET) at Iowa State University. CSET is a multidisciplinary research center at Iowa State encompassing several promising thermochemical platforms including bio-oil production and upgrading, syngas production and upgrading, bio-oil and syngas fermentation, and biochar production and application. His research is on the development of technology producing biopolymers, biofuel, and other valuable chemicals from syngas and bio-oil via fermentation. He received his BE in biotechnology from Taegu University, Korea. He continued his graduate education and received his MS and PhD in microbiology from Ball State University, Indiana, and Iowa State University, Iowa, respectively. He is an active member of the American Society for Microbiology and the Society for Industrial Microbiology.

Terry Meyer is a research associate at the DOE Ames Laboratory and is the faculty adviser for the Iowa State Chapter of Pi Tau Sigma, a nationwide mechanical engineering honorary society. Meyer completed his doctoral work at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2000, having held graduate fellowships from the National Science Foundation and Ford Foundation, as well as being selected for the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics Graduate Award in Fluid Dynamics. His dissertation work focused on laser techniques for measuring turbulent mixing at the molecular scale, and he subsequently focused on the study of combusting flows at the Air Force Research Laboratory at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio. Meyer currently serves as director of the Department of Mechanical Engineering’s Clean Energy Technologies Program. His research at Iowa State University is currently funded by the Air Force Research Laboratory, the Air Force Office of Scientific Research, NASA, Conoco-Phillips, and the Grow Iowa Values Fund.

Derek Wissmiller is a co-major PhD student in the mechanical engineering and biorenewable resources and technology programs at Iowa State University. He has a diverse academic background with an interest in the atomization and combustion characteristics of biomassderived fast pyrolysis oils. He received his BS in physics from Illinois State University and his MS in mechanical engineering at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, where he studied the thermal characteristics of micro-end milling.

Sam S. Jones, associate scientist at the Center for Sustainable Environmental Technologies, conducts innovative research in thermochemical processing of biomass into energy, fuels, and chemicals. His research interests include systems for biomass gasification and fast pyrolysis with a primary focus on carbon conversion, tar measurement and control, hot gas clean-up, hydrogen production, selective condensation of pyrolysis liquids, power systems based on pyrolysis liquids, and bio-oil and biochar characterization

Justinus Satrio is a research scientist and a program manager at the Center for Sustainable Environmental Technologies (CSET) at Iowa State University. He holds a doctoral degree in chemical engineering from Iowa State and has an extensive research experience in reaction engineering, applied material and catalysis development, chemical plant and process design, and process technoeconomic evaluation. He also has several years of industrial experience as a chemical process engineer. His present research area specialization is on biomass utilization involving noncatalytic and catalytic thermochemical processes, such as fast pyrolysis, gasification, and processes for upgrading fast pyrolysis and gasification products into chemicals and liquid fuels. Research projects at CSET that Satrio is currently involved in include biomass pretreatment and characterization, fundamental studies on fast pyrolysis, characterization of fast-pyrolysis products, catalytic upgrading of fast pyrolysis oil to produce hydrogen, conversion of syngas to liquid fuels via Fischer- Tropsch-type synthesis, engineering biochar for soil quality enhancement, and technoeconomic evaluation on fast pyrolysis and gasificationbased biorefineries.

Christopher Williams received his BSc in civil engineering at University of Vermont, his MSc in civil engineering at Purdue University, and his PhD in civil engineering at Purdue University. He is a materials engineer at the Center for Transportation Research and Education. He specializes in asphalt pavement materials. He joined CTRE in August 2005, sharing a joint appointment with Iowa State University’s Department of Civil, Construction, and Environmental Engineering as an associate professor.