Paul Anastas
Teresa and H. John Heinz III Professor in the Practice of Chemistry for the Environment; Director of the Center for Green Chemistry and Green Engineering; Director of Sustainability Curriculum, MBA for Executives Program at Yale School of Management
Biography
PAUL T. ANASTAS IS THE TERESA AND H. JOHN HEINZ III PROFESSOR IN THE PRACTICE OF CHEMISTRY FOR THE ENVIRONMENT. He has appointments in the School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, Department of Chemistry, and Department of Chemical Engineering. In addition, Prof. Anastas serves as the Director of the Center for Green Chemistry and Green Engineering at Yale. Anastas took public service leave from Yale to serve as the Assistant Administrator for the US Environmental Protection Agency and the Agency Science Advisor from 2009-2012. From 2004 -2006, Paul Anastas served as Director of the ACS Green Chemistry Institute in Washington, D.C. He was previously the Assistant Director for the Environment in the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy where he worked from 1999-2004. Trained as a synthetic organic chemist, Dr. Anastas received his Ph.D. from Brandeis University and worked as an industrial consultant. He is credited with establishing the field of green chemistry during his time working for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency as the Chief of the Industrial Chemistry Branch and as the Director of the U.S. Green Chemistry Program. Dr. Anastas has published widely on topics of science through sustainability including eleven books, such as Benign by Design, Designing Safer Polymers, Green Engineering, and his seminal work with co-author John Warner, Green Chemistry: Theory and Practice.
Yale School of Management
Paul T. Anastas is credited with establishing the field of green chemistry in 1991 during his time working for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency as the Chief of the Industrial Chemistry Branch and as the founding Director of the U.S. Green Chemistry Program. Dr. Anastas has published widely on topics of science through sustainability.
Education
- PhD , Brandeis University
- MA , Brandeis University
- BS , University of Massachusetts at Boston
Selected Publications
- Barta, K.; Warner, G.; Beach, E. S.; Anastas, P. T., Depolymerization of organosolv lignin to aromatic compounds over Cu-doped porous metal oxides. Green Chemistry 2014, 16 (1), 191-196. DOI: 10.1039/C3GC41184B
- Bloomfield, A.; Sheehan, S.; Collom, S.; Crabtree, R., Anastas, P.T., A heterogeneous water oxidation catalyst from dicobalt octacarbonyl and 1,2-bis(diphenylphosphino)ethane. New Journal of Chemistry 2014, 38 (4), 1540-1545. DOI: 10.1039/C3NJ01298K
- Kostal, J.; Voutchkova-Kostal, A.; Anastas, P.; Zimmerman, J. B., Identifying and designing chemicals with minimal acute aquatic toxicity. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2014,
- Warner, G.; Hansen, T. S.; Riisager, A.; Beach, E. S.; Barta, K.; Anastas, P. T., Depolymerization of organosolv lignin using doped porous metal oxides in supercritical methanol. Bioresource Technology 2014, 161:78-83. DOI: 10.1016/j.biortech.2014.02.092
- Beach, E. S.; Cui, Z.; Anastas, P. T.; Zhan, M.; Wool, R. P., Properties of Thermosets Derived from Chemically Modified Triglycerides and Bio-Based Comonomers. Applied Sciences 2013, 3 (4), 684-693.
- Beach, E. S.; Weeks, B. R.; Stern, R.; Anastas, P. T., Plastics additives and green chemistry. Pure and Applied Chemistry 2013, 85 (8), 1611-1624. DOI: 10.1351/PAC-CON-12-08-08
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