Gregg T. Beckham is a Senior Research Fellow and Group Leader at NREL. He received his PhD in Chemical Engineering at MIT in 2007. He currently leads and works with an interdisciplinary team at NREL on the development of sustainable processes and products in the areas of biomass conversion and plastics recycling. He also is the CEO of the US Department of Energy-funded BOTTLE Consortium, which focuses on plastics recycling and redesign.