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May 11, 2007

Charles E. Wyman, Ph.D.
Ford Motor Company Chair in Environmental Engineering, University of California, Riverside, and Co-Founder, Chief Development Officer, and Chair of the Scientific Advisory Board of Mascoma Corporation

Dr. Wyman has been a leading figure world-wide in the cellulosic ethanol field for over 25 years and a foremost expert in the area of biomass pretreatment. He is the Ford Motor Company Professor of Chemical and Environmental Engineering at the University of California, Riverside. Prior to that he was the Paul E. and Joan H. Queneau Distinguished Professor in Environmental Engineering Design at the Thayer School of Engineering at Dartmouth College where he continues as an Adjunct Professor. He also has served as Director of Technology for BC International Corporation (now Celunol Corporation), Director of the Biotechnology Center for Fuels and Chemicals at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) in Golden, Colorado, Director of the NREL Biotechnology Research Branch, Manager of Process Development for Badger Engineers, Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering at the University of New Hampshire and as a Senior Chemical Engineer with Monsanto Company. He received a B.S. degree in chemical engineering from the University of Massachusetts Amherst and Ph.D. degrees in chemical engineering from Princeton University, and an MBA from the University of Denver. Read the press release on this event...