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Kenneth Reardon
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John Field and Sam Evans, NSF IGERT scholars in the Multidisciplinary Approaches to Sustainable Bioenergy at Colorado State University, developed a method to evaluate the ability of advanced improved cookstoves... More »
About Me
I am Professor and Associate Department Head of Chemical and Biological Engineering at Colorado State University, and hold joint appointments in the Graduate Program in Cell and Molecular Biology, the Graduate Program in Ecology, the Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences, and the Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Pathology. In 2010, I was named to the Jud and Pat Harper Chair in Chemical and Biological Engineering.
I received my BS degree from the University of Pennsylvania and my PhD from the California Institute of Technology, and have been a member of the CSU faculty since 1989. I am the CSU Site Director for the Colorado Center for Biorefining and Biofuels. In addition, I am the Director of Colorado State’s Sustainable Biofuels Development Center and the Director of the our IGERT program, “Multidisciplinary Approaches to Sustainable Bioenergy”.
My research involves the analysis and engineering of bacteria and algae for the production of biofuels and other chemicals. My expertise falls within the broad areas of proteomics, metabolic engineering, bioreactors, and biosensors, environmental and industrial microbiology. My group’s research has been supported by the National Science Foundation, the Environmental Protection Agency, the National Institutes of Health, the Engineering and Physical Science Research Council (UK), and private industry.
