Dr. Joseph Bozell
Associate Professor
Forest Products Center at UT
Southeastern Sun Grant Center
2506 Jacob Drive
Knoxville, TN 37996-4570
p. 865.974.5991
f. 865.946.1109

jbozell@utk.edu

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Joseph Bozell
Associate Professor

Joseph J. Bozell has been an Associate Professor of Biomass Chemistry in the University of Tennessee’s Forest Products Center since April, 2006. Prof. Bozell received his B. S. degree in chemistry from South Dakota State University, and a Ph. D. from Colorado State University in organic synthesis and organometallic chemistry under Professor Louis S. Hegedus.

His professional career began with a postdoctoral fellowship at Princeton University, working with Professor Martin F. Semmelhack. He joined the Corporate Research staff of Monsanto in St. Louis in 1982, and remained there until he joined the staff of the National Renewable Energy Laboratory in Golden, CO in 1989, where he rose to the rank of Principal Scientist in their National Bioenergy Center.

Prof. Bozell brings broad experience in use of transition metal organometallic complexes in organic chemistry and expertise in traditional organic chemistry. His primary research interests are in using the tools of organic chemistry to develop technology for converting renewable materials (biomass, carbohydrates, lignin, lignocellulosics) into chemical products and polymers. His research projects include the use of organometallic chemistry in synthesis, biobased nanostructural materials and self assembly, new synthetic methods, interaction of organometallics with carbohydrates, novel transformations of renewable feedstocks, catalysis and biorefinery development.

Dr. Bozell has been the editor of two ACS symposium series assessing chemicals from biomass opportunities, and has organized two ACS symposia on the use of renewables for chemical production. He is also a current editor of the Wiley journal CLEAN – Soil, Air, Water. He has over 25 peer reviewed publications and numerous meeting and symposium presentation, along with a number of invited lectures on the topic of chemicals from renewables. In 1999, Dr. Bozell was a co-recipient of the Environmental Protection Agency’s Presidential Green Chemistry Award.