Iowa State University

Mahdi Al-Kaisi
Department of Agronomy
malkaisi@iastate.edu
Interests: soil carbon dynamics, soil carbon sequestration, residue and tillage management impact on soil and water quality, attentive cropping systems for biomass production and their impacts on soil carbon stocks. 

Heidi Asbjornsen
hasbjorn@iastate.edu

Floyd Barwig
Director Iowa Energy Center
febarwig@energy.iastate.edu

Thomas Bobik
Department of Biochemistry, Biophysics and Molecular Biology
bobik@iastate.edu
Interests: syngas fermentation and advanced biofuels

Robert C. Brown
Director, Center for Sustainable Environmental Technologies
Office of Biorenewable Programs
rcbrown@iastate.edu

Vikram Dalal
Catron Center for Solar Energy Director
vdalal@iastate.edu
Interests: solar-electric conversion technology using photovoltaic energy conversion.

Paul Gallagher
Departmtent fo Economics
paulg@iastate.edu
Interests: bioenergy markets and industry.

Khanal Samir Kumar    
Department of Civil, Construction and Environmental Engineering
samirk@iastate.edu
Interests: bioethanol from lignocellulosic biomass, biomethane and fungal biomass/fungal-derived products from low-cost feedstock, and biohydrogen and butanol from biomass-derived sugars, improving bioethanol production from cellulosic biomass, corn and cassava.

Kenneth Moore
Department of Agronomy
kjmoore@iastate.edu
Interests: advanced cropping systems for biomass and other alternative crops, biomass storage and pretreatment strategies, evaluation and characterization of potential biofeedstock materials. 

Michael Pate
Center for Building Energy Research Director
cber@iastate.edu

Robert Wisner
Department of Economics of Agriculture and Life Sciences
rwwisner@iastate.edu
Interests: focuses on impacts of U.S. and foreign biofuels industries on global grain and oilseed markets, the demand for cropland, on needed changes in crop rotations,  and on adjustments needed by non-energy users of grain and oilseeds.  This work also includes implications of the rapidly expanding biofuels industry for price volatility and risk management of producers and users of grain and oilseeds.