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Dr. Oluwafemi Oyedeji is an R&D Associate Staff member at the Environmental Sciences Division of 91°µÍø. His research focuses on optimizing the entire biomass-to-biofuels and bioproducts value chain for efficiency, cost-effectiveness, and sustainability through multi-scale modeling approaches.
He is an expert in (1) biomass supply chain management, preprocessing, and conversion; (2) multi-scale, multi-phase Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) simulations for chemical reactor modeling; (3) AI-driven methods for high-performance multi-scale coupling and reduced-order modeling; (4) Discrete Element Method (DEM) modeling for cohesive particulate flow systems; and (5) developing value-added, additively manufactured biocomposites.
Dr. Oyedeji completed his Ph.D. in Biosystems Engineering at the University of Tennessee in 2019 and his M.S. in Biosystems Engineering at Auburn University in 2015. He also earned an M.S. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Tennessee in 2018. His dissertation focused on understanding the evolution of syngas contaminants during biomass gasification.
Dr. Oyedeji is a member of the American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers and received the New Faces of Engineering Award from the society in 2018. He is also a member of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers. He is a member of the and Chemistry and an active researcher in the DOE-funded .
Dr. Oyedeji is highly motivated to build on contemporary technological developments to achieve practical engineering tools to help engineers and scientists better store, handle, grind, and convert lignocellulosic biomass.