A member of the Dartmouth faculty since 1987, Professor Lynd is an expert on utilization of plant biomass for production of energy. Spanning science, technology, and policy domains, and including leading research on fundamental and biotechnological aspects of microbial cellulose utilization, his body of work includes over 250 publications, over 36,000 citations, an h-index of 79, and an !10-index of 224 (Google Scholar), as well as 9 granted patents. Lynd is co-founder, Chief Scientific Officer, and Director of biofuel start-up Enchi Corp., Consolidated Bioprocessing Team Lead for the Center for Bioenergy Innovation, and founder and Executive Committee Chair of the Global Sustainable Bioenergy Initiative. In the past, he was co-founder, CSO, and Director of Mascoma Corp., co-leader (with Nathanael Greene of the Natural Resources Defense Council) of The Role of Biomass in America’s Energy Future project, and biofuel industry representative on a committee advisory to the executive office of President Clinton on reducing greenhouse gas emission from personal vehicles. He has three times testified before the US Senate, and has been featured in prominent fora such as Wired, Forbes, Nova, and the Nobel Conference. He is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and has received numerous awards and honors, including: Inaugural winner of the Lemelson MIT Sustainability Prize for inventions and innovations that enhance economic opportunity and community well-being while protecting and restoring the natural environment, and the Charles D. Scott Award for distinguished contributions to the field of biotechnology for fuels and chemicals.