Mahdi M Abu-Omar
Purdue University, USA
Biography
Abu-Omar completed his PhD from Iowa State University and postdoc from Caltech. He is the R. B. Wetherill Professor of Chemistry at Purdue University, and the associate director of the Center for Catalytic Conversion of Biomass to Biofuels (C3Bio), an Energy Frontiers Research Center. Mahdi is the Founder and President of Spero Energy, Inc., a green specialty chemicals company and a technology provider for the manufacture of high value renewable chemicals from biomass. He has published more than 100 original research papers in peer-reviewed journals. Dr. Abu-Omar is a Fellow of the American Association for Advancement of Science (AAAS).
Abstract
Abstract : Sustainability through Catalysis: Making Biofuels and Chemicals from Biomass