Spotlight
Global approach to risk reduction: Green Chemistry
Thursday, December 3, 2009 | 12:00 to 01:00 PM
Evan Beach
Post doctoral Researcher
G01, Kroon Hall, 195 Prospect St., New Haven
Evan Beach's training is mainly in organic and analytical chemistry. His Ph.D. work in the Collins group at Carnegie Mellon University focused on using a Green Chemistry oxidation method to control organic pollutants in water. Earlier, for his M.S. project (at UNC-Chapel Hill), he worked on synthesizing carbohydrate-based surfactants for dissolving water in supercritical carbon dioxide, to expand the uses of carbon dioxide as a Green solvent. Beach is most interested in research that makes use of renewable feedstocks (or waste materials), particularly to solve environmental problems in developing countries.