Thomas Foust

Dr. Thomas Foust is the Director of the National Renewable Energy Laboratory’s National Bioenergy Center (NBC), a world leading organization of approximately 250 engineering and scientific staff performing cutting-edge work to develop cost effective, environmentally sustainable technology for producing transportation fuels and products from renewable and waste carbon. He is also a Professor of MechanicalEngineering at Colorado State University, a position he has held since 2017. Dr. Foust is a comprehensive expert in the clean energy area with a specialty in sustainable and low carbon energy technologies with over 25 years of  management experience. His areas of expertise in bioenergy include feedstock production, biomass conversion technologies to fuels and products and advantaged uses of biofuels and bio products. Additionally, he has worked extensively in environmental and societal sustainability issues associated with clean energy. He has over 120 publications in the sustainable energy field covering numerous aspects of  techno economic analysis and environmental sustainability. Dr. Foust has a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Idaho, a M.S. in MechanicalEngineering from the Johns Hopkins University, and a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from thePennsylvania State University. He is a licensed Professional Engineer.