Joule Fuels: A Transformative Production Platform forLiquid Fuel from the Sun
Thursday, March 21
4-5 pm
Room 54-100
Joule was founded in 2007 to develop and implement direct photosynthetic conversion to fuels and commodity products. The company has developed cyanobacterial photobiocatalysts that operate continuously in a proprietary SolarConverter to use sunlight, waste CO2 and brackish water to synthesize drop-in ethanol and paraffins.
Dan Robertson, Senior Vice President and Lead Scientist
Dr. Robertson has led the bioscience efforts at Joule since its inception in 2007. Prior to Joule, he served as Director of Enzymology at DiversaCorporation and as Vice President of Biofuels R&D for Verenium, where he led the development of microbial strains for cellulosic ethanol production. In addition to his 14 years of industrial experience, Dr. Robertson also has a 14-year academic background focused on the energetics of membrane transport and photosynthesis. He received his PhD degree in Biochemistry from the University of Pittsburgh.
Event graciously funded by the MIT BioEnergy Community and SynBERC
Questions? Contact trivedi@mit.edu.
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Parthsarathi Trivedi
Graduate Research Assistant
MIT Laboratory for Aviation & the Environment
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
77 Massachusetts Ave, Room 33-115
Cambridge, MA, 02139, USA