George Huber

• Year

  2024

• Program

  Virtual Institute on Feedstocks of the Future (VIFF)

• Institution

  University of Wisconsin-Madison

• Location

  Madison, USA

George Willis Huber is the Richard Antoine Professor of Chemical Engineering at University of Wisconsin-Madison. His research focus is the design of disruptive technologies for the upcycling of biomass, waste plastics and other waste resources. He has published over 230 papers, more than 23 patents, and received over 50,000 citations. He is co-founder of Anellotech (www.anellotech.com) and Pyran (www.pyranco.com). Professor Huber is the executive director of the $12.5 million International Center on Chemical Upcycling of Waste Plastics (CUWP). CUWP currently involves 23 industrial partners, 6 universities, 1 national laboratory, 29 PIs, and 36 graduate students/post-doctoral researchers. Professor Huber has received visiting professorships from the Chinese Academy of Sciences (at Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics), the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the ExxonMobil Visiting Chair Professor at National University of Singapore. George did a post-doctoral stay with Avelino Corma at the Technical Chemical Institute at the Polytechnical University of Valencia, Spain (UPV-CSIC). He obtained his Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from University of Wisconsin-Madison under the direction of James Dumesic. He served a two-year volunteer mission for his church in Guatemala. He obtained his B.S. and M.S. degrees in Chemical Engineering from Brigham Young University.