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Joseph Rollin, The Conversation

After completing his B.S. in Chemical Engineering at Notre Dame, Joe served in the U.S. Army as a Combat Engineer. He subsequently earned a Ph.D. in Biological Systems Engineering from Virginia Tech, during which time he co-founded two start-up companies, Gate Fuels Inc. and Cell-Free Bioinnovations Inc. In 2016 Joe served as a Fellow with ARPA-E, the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Energy. He started the NREL Director’s Fellowship in Feb of 2017.

The Surprising Way Plastics Could Actually Help Fight Climate Change

Joseph Rollin, The Conversation and Jenna E. Gallegos, The Conversation

Science & Medicine

What do your car, phone, soda bottle and shoes have in common? They’re all largely made from petroleum. This nonrenewable resource gets processed into a versatile set of chemicals called polymers – or more...