Bioplastic innovation for a climate positive future
On behalf of Tsai Center for Innovative Thinking at Yale and Yale Center for Business and the Environment, we would like to invite you to attend our first Planetary Innovator Speaker Series event this academic year! The Planetary Innovator Speaker Series aims to bring innovators involved in emerging environmental problems and facilitate knowledge exchange discussions between our community and the innovators. The event details are as follows:
Time & Date: 4:30pm - 5:30pm, November 10th, 2022
Venue: Ground Floor, Tsai Center for Innovative Thinking at Yale
Format: Presentation + Interview + Q&A
Title: Bioplastic innovation for a climate positive future
Speaker: Dr. Jan-Georg Rosenboom, Chemical Engineering@MIT
Moderator: Mr. Junwei (Jeff) Zhang, Environmental Engineering@Yale
Our first event will focus on how bioplastics can help drive us towards a greener future. On November 10th, Dr. Jan-Georg Rosenboom, a polymer scientist at MIT, will present the state of art in the biopolymer and sustainable plastics field and share his insights on the current and future plastics industry at Tsai CITY. Dr. Rosenboom has been actively working on bioplastics and promoted its commercialization since his Ph.D. at ETH Zurich. With Dr. Rosenboom’s strong expertise, our community will gain a deeper understanding on sustainable plastics and identify potential solutions and opportunities in relevant fields.
For registration and a more detailed description, please follow this link. We look forward to seeing you at Tsai CITY!
