Our researchers focus on projects across the highly-interdisciplinary topic of bioenergy and producing energy from waste. With expertise from across the engineering, sciences and social sciences, this group brings expertise in bioenergy and continuous manufacturing of biofuels, plastic recycling, biomass conversion, biodegradable polymers, chemical and biological recycling of plastics, waste utilization and upcycling, lifecycle assessment and techno-economic analyses of organic waste treatment technologies. We apply engineering and decision-making models to find solutions to climate change and environmental problems, energy and process modeling, multi-objective optimization, sustainability, system modeling and optimization for energy resilience. The group also works on bioprocess and bioreaction modeling, applications of AI (Artificial Intelligence) in bioprocesses, computational fluid dynamics (CFD) of bioreactors, biodegradation and bioconversion of plastic wastes, enzymatic degradation of PET plastics and the design of new enzymatic reaction systems.