报告题目：Platform Chemicals from Biomass（生物质平台化学品）
报 告 人：Prof. Xuejun Pan (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
报告时间：2017年6月9日（周五）下午3:00
报告地点：林学与风景园林学院620会议室
Abstract:
With the increasing concerns on the sustainability and environmental impacts of petroleum oil based chemicals, biomass has drawn more attention as an alternative resource for the production of commodity chemicals. This presentation reviews the general strategies to produce the chemicals from biomass. Successful examples of biomass-based chemicals will be discussed as well.
Biography：
Dr. Pan is a Professor in the Department of Biological Systems Engineering at University of Wisconsin-Madison. He earned his Bachelor, Master and PhD degrees in Chemical Engineering at Tianjin University of Science and Technology, China, and a PhD degree in Applied Bioscience at Hokkaido University, Japan. Dr. Pan conducted postdoctoral researches at Georgia Tech, University of Minnesota, and University of British Columbia, successively.
Dr. Pan’s areas of interest include (1) pretreatment and fractionation of lignocellulosic biomass; (2) enzymatic and chemical saccharification of lignocellulose; (3) chemical and biological conversion of lignocellulose to chemicals and liquid fuels; (4) high-value utilization of cellulose, hemicellulose and lignin; and (5) fundamental understanding of physical and chemical changes of plant cell wall during biorefining.
Dr. Pan has published 90+ peer reviewed journal articles, 6 book chapters, and 3 US patents. Total citation >6500, h-index 37, and i10-index 64. He was elected as Fellow of International Academy of Wood Science in 2013 and won Alfred Toepfer Faculty Fellow Award in 2011 and NSF Career Award in 2009.
林学与风景园林学院
2017年6月6日
