Description: This talk will focus on strategies for transforming agricultural and forest biomass into value-added fuels, bioproducts, and functional materials while advancing sustainable resource management and environmental protection. By integrating biomass conversion, resource recovery, and sustainability assessment, the talk will highlight opportunities to build more resilient and circular systems across the resource–energy–environment nexus.

BIo: Dr. Ming-Hsun Cheng is currently an Assistant Professor of Energy and Environment. Ming-Hsun joined UI in 2022, starting his position at Idaho Falls campus leveraging the partnership with Idaho National laboratory. He earned his PhD in Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering from Iowa State University in 2017 and was doing research as a postdoc research associate at the Center for Advanced Bioproduct and Bioenergy Innovation at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign before joining the University of Idaho. His research group focuses on Integrated Biorefinery Systems for bioproduct innovations.