Handbook of Biorefinery Research and Technology

Prof. GREGORY N. STEPHANOPOULOS Ph.D., University of Minnesota, 1978 M.S., University of Florida, 1975 B.S., National Technical University, Athens, 1973

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE 2006— MIT, W.H. Dow Professor of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology 2006—2007 ETH, Visiting Professor, Institute of Chemical and Bioengineering, Zurich 2000—05 MIT, Bayer Professor of Chem. Eng. and Biotechnology 2000— MIT-Harvard Division of Health Science and Technology (HST), Professor 1990—1997 MIT, Associate Director, Biotechnology Center 1997—present Harvard University, MGH, Lecturer on Surgery and Bioengineering 1985—2000 MIT, Professor of Chemical Engineering 1983—1985 California Institute of Technology Associate Professor (tenured), Department of Chemical Engineering 1978—1983 California Institute of Technology Assistant Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering 1975—1978 University of Minnesota Research and Teaching Assistant, Department of Chemical Engineering March-July, 1975 Union Carbide Corporation Linde Division, Tonawanda, New York Research and Development Engineer 1973—1975 University of Florida Research and Teaching Assistant, Department of Chemical Engineering 1972 Erbsloh Aluminum, Wuppertal, W. Germany, Summer Research Fellow

Prof. Park, Jong Moon 1986 Ph.D.,Univ. of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology, Manchester 1986—1988 Post-Doc., University of Minessota 1988—1989 Section Head, Vipont Research Lab., Inc. 1996— Secretary of Research Affairs School of Environmental Engineering, POSTECH 1998—1999 McGill University, Visiting Professor

Research Interest 1) Wastewater treatment 2) Bioremediation 3) Air pollution 4) Others: microbiological influenced corrosion(MIC) survey and biofiltration process to remove VOCs or toxic gases (e.g. hydrogen sulfide) are going on. Plant cell and tissue culture is another main stream of research activity of our group, through which high value complicated chemicals(mainly phytochemicals such as taxol(anti-cancer drug), ginkgoglide and sangunarine) can be produced in an environmentally friendly way.

Feedstock: General
Agriculture residues
Designing the perfect plant feedstock for biofuel production
Microalgae: True sustainable feedstock
Life Cycle Assessment of biomass production
Pretreatment
Nonbiological pretreatment of lignocellulosic biomass
Biological pretreatment of lignocellulosic biomass
Use of ionic liquids in converting lignocellulosic material to biofuels
Pretreatment of macroalgae
Saccharification
Saccharification of lignocellulosic biomass for biofuel and biorefinery applications
Solid acid mediated hydrolysis of biomass for producing biofuels
Microalgae
Cultivation of Microalgae
Microalgae Harvest
Recent Advances in Biofuel Production
Recent Developments in fermentative Bio-Hydrogen Production
Progress in photosynthetic bio-hydrogen production
Progress in Bio-oil Production
Technical Advances in ethanol biofuel production
Progress in the development of butanol production
Progress in alkane biofuel
Technologies on bio-gas production
Progress in ethanol production from carbon monoxide
Progress in the production of platform chemicals in biorefinery
Recent development in bioproduction and application of 3-HP
Progress in Polylactate production
Progress in butanediol
Past, Present and future of succinate
Glutamate as a platform chemical of bio-based economy
Production of long-chain organic for bioindustry
Essential Technologies for Biorefinery
Metabolic Engineering for Strain Improvement
Genome-scale metabolic engineering
Synthetic regulatory device for design of microbes
Molecular device for genome redesign for synthetic biology
Genome-scale genetic engineering for synthetic biology
Progress in Integrated Bioprocess.