Personnel

Project Investigators from the University of Kentucky:

• Rodney Andrews (PI)
  Center for Applied Energy Research; Department of Chemical Engineering
  Email
  Website

• Mark Crocker (co-PI)
  Center for Applied Energy Research
  Email
  Website

• Seth DeBolt (co-PI)
  Department of Horticulture
  Email
  Website

• Mark Meier (co-PI)
  Department of Chemistry; Center for Applied Energy Research
  Email
  Website

• Samuel Morton (co-PI)
  Center for Applied Energy Research
  Email
  Website

Personnel (in addition to PI's)

Univeristy of Kentucky College of Agriculture

• Carloalberto Petti (Ph.D. University of Galway, Ireland)
• Venu Mendu Ph.D. University of Kentucky, Lexington)
• Andrew Shearer (UK Undergraduate)

University of Kentucky Center for Applied Energy Research

• Justin Mobley (Ph.D. student, Chemistry)
• Liz Harman-Ware (Ph.D. student, Chemistry)
• Andrew Placido (CAER junior staff researcher)

Univeristy of Kentucky Chemistry Department

• Aman Kaur (Ph.D. student, Chemistry)
• Nikhil Patil (Ph.D. student, Chemistry)

Collaborations

• Oak Ridge National Laboratory - General collaboration on approaches to lignin deconstruction and issues to be kept in mind looking at fuels via this approach.
• Pure Lignin Environmental Technology Ltd - Providing lignin purified by their proprietary process for use in the project.
• University of Massachusetts Amherst - Dr. George Huber and Dr. Jungho Jae have collaborated on deconstruction and global geospatial analysis papers.
• University of California - Merced - Dr Elliott Campbell (Engineering) collaborated on the geospatial analysis study.
• Tennessee Technological University - Dr. Joe Bernacki, Department of Chemical Engineering (with co-PI Crocker; co-PI Morton; co-PI DeBolt)
• University of Massachusetts - Dr. George Huber, Department of Chemical Engineering (with co-PI DeBolt)
• University of Kentucky - Dr. Bert Lynn, Department of Chemistry (with co-PI Meier)
• Eastern Kentucky University - Dr. Darrin Smith, Department of Chemistry (with co-PI Morton)
• Eastern Kentucky University - Dr. Laurel Morton, Department of Chemistry (with co-PI Morton)
• Sued-Chemie Inc., Louisville, KY - Dr. Wayne Turbeville (with co-PI Crocker)

Other Collaborators

• Eastern Kentucky University - Andrew Sharits (Collaborative work at CAER)
• Eastern Kentucky University - Jeremy Wallace (Collaborative work at CAER)
• Transylvania University - Charlie Thackery (Worked at CAER over summer)
• UC Merced - Dr. Elliott Campbell, Department of Engineering (with Co-PI Debolt)
• University of Kentucky - Mr. Tom Shearin, UK AG programmer and systems analyst working on geospatial modeling in ARC GIS
• University of Massachusetts - Dr. Jungho Jae, Department of Chemical Engineering (with co-PI DeBolt)