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Charles E. Wyman, is a Ford Motor Company Chair and a Distinguished Professor & Endowed Chair in Chemical & Environmental Engineering at University of California, Riverside. Wyman was also the Paul E. and Joan H. Queneau Distinguished Professor in Environmental Engineering Design at the Thayer School of Engineering at Dartmouth College, Prior to joining UC Riverside. He is the co-founder and former Chief Development Officer and Chair of the Scientific Advisory Board of Mascoma Corporation. He is one of the researchers responsible for the development of the Bioenergy, Biomass & Biofuel. He is an authoritative figure in the broad area of ethanol. He has made significant seminal contributions in the specific areas of pretreatment, enzymatic hydrolysis, and dehydration of cellulosic biomass to reactive intermediates for biological or catalytic conversion into fuels and chemicals. Wyman has over 200 journal papers, 25 books chapters, and has given numerous national and international talks, 30 technical reports and about more than 20 patents.
Vinay Gupta is an Indian materials scientist and a former senior scientist at the Physics of Energy Harvesting department of the National Physical Laboratory of India. Known for his studies on organic solar cells, carbon nanotubes arrays and Förster resonance energy transfer, Gupta is a former Alexander von Humboldt Fellow. The Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, the apex agency of the Government of India for scientific research, awarded him the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology, one of the highest Indian science awards, for his contributions to physical sciences in 2017.
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- ↑ "NREL's Keith Emery Awarded Prestigious Cherry Award".
- ↑ "Highly Cited Researchers: Home". Thomson Reuters.