Postdoctoral Researcher

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.