Advancing the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) through biomass and bioenergy research

Jerome Dumortier is an Associate Professor at the O’Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs at Indiana University on the Indianapolis campus. His research focuses on the interactions between agricultural, energy, and environmental policies. He quantifies the economic effects of climate change on agriculture using simulation models. Dr. Dumortier’s research on bioenergy and biofuels also led him to assess the economic effects of more electric vehicles on agricultural and electricity markets. Dr. Dumortier is the Co-Editor-in-Chief of BioEnergy Research and a member of the Editorial Advisory Board of GCB Bioenergy.

Dr. Héctor A. Ruiz obtained his Ph.D. in Chemical and Biological Engineering from Centre of Biological Engineering at the University of Minho, Portugal. He is currently Full Professor at the Autonomous University of Coahuila in Mexico. Dr. Ruiz was a highly cited researcher (Top 2% in the world) within the report of Stanford University and Elsevier BV, 2021 and 2022. He is co-author of more than 135 publications, including peer-reviewed articles and chapters with > 4,200 citations and h-index of 37 (Scopus). Research interests are: Biorefinery, Biochemical Engineering, Lignocellulosic Biomass, Microalgae processing, Hydrothermal Pretreatment

Dr. Wilfred Vermerris is Professor in the department of Microbiology & Cell Science at the University of Florida and member of the UF Genetics Institute. His research focuses on the genetic improvement of sorghum to enable sustainable production of renewable chemicals and fuels, with emphasis on plant-microbe interactions, cell wall biosynthesis, phenolic compounds and nanomaterials. He published two books with Springer, Phenolic Compound Biochemistry (2006) and Genetic Improvement of Bioenergy Crops (2008). He has been Co-Editor-in-Chief of BioEnergy Research since the journal’s inception in 2008.