Arthur Ragauskas held the first Fulbright Chair in Alternative Energy and is a Fellow of American Association for the Advancement of Science, the International Academy of Wood Science and TAPPI. In 2014, he assumed a Governor鈥檚 Chair for Biorefining based in University of Tennessee鈥檚 Department of 91成人短视频 and Biomolecular Engineering, with a complementary appointment in the UT Institute of Agriculture鈥檚 Department of Forestry, Wildlife, and Fisheries and serves in the US Energy and Environmental Sciences Directorate, Biosciences Division, at ORNL. His research program is directed at understanding and exploiting innovative sustainable bioresources. This multifaceted program is targeted to develop new and improved applications for nature鈥檚 premiere renewable biopolymers for biofuels, biopower, and bio-based materials and chemicals. His Fulbright sponsored activities at Chalmers University of Technology were focused on the forest biorefinery and new biofuel conversion technologies. Currently, Dr. Ragauskas manages a research group of graduate students, postdoctoral research fellows, a research scientist, and visiting scientists. He is the recipient of the 2014 TAPPI Gunnar Nicholson Gold Medal Award and the ACS Affordable Green Chemistry award and his students have won several awards, including the ACS graduate research award.