Email: carson.meredith@chbe.gatech.edu
Carson Meredith received a BS degree in Chemical Engineering from Georgia Tech (1993) and a PhD in Chemical Engineering from the University of Texas, Austin (1998). He was a postdoc at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) from 1998 to 2000, and joined the faculty in the School of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering at Georgia Tech in 2000, where he is a Professor.
His research interests are biomass-derived renewable and sustainable materials and high-throughput materials discovery and characterization. His group has pioneered in the area of using chitin and cellulose to derive alternative packaging materials as substitutes for plastics.
Carson is the Executive Director of Georgia Tech’s Renewable Bioproducts Institute, one of ten interdisciplinary research institutes on the campus. In this role, he is catalyzing an interdisciplinary innovation community engaged in translational research in pulp, paper and packaging, circular materials from biomass, and bioindustrial manufacturing and biorefining.
Dr. Meredith started the GT-EQUAL program, the first ACS Bridge Program in a chemical engineering school, for advancing the number of underrepresented student that earn PhDs. In addition, he is on the Editorial Board of the journal Green Materials and the External Advisory Boards of the Bioproducts Institute (University of British Columbia) and the Joint Bioenergy Institute (JBEI).
In his personal time, he enjoys jazz, camping, playing with his Springer Spaniel ‘Willow’, restoring vintage audio and doing his own car repairs.