Prof. Jeremy Luterbacher

Jeremy Luterbacher received a master’s degree in Chemical Engineering from EPFL in 2007. During his master, he spent one year as a visiting scientist at the MIT working on hydrothermal biomass gasification in Pr. Jeff Tester’s lab. Jeremy then moved to Cornell University to pursue doctoral studies in Pr. Larry Walker’s lab, working on biomass pretreatment and enzymatic hydrolysis of biomass. He was awarded the Austin Hooey Graduate Research Excellence Recognition by the Cornell Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering.

After receiving his PhD, Jeremy joined the University of Wisconsin-Madison as a Swiss National Science Foundation Postdoctoral Scholar. He worked there for two years on solvent-aided chemical biomass depolymerization and aqueous phase catalytic reforming under the supervision of Pr. Jim Dumesic. In 2014, Jeremy returned to EPFL as a Tenure-Track Assistant Professor and head of the Laboratory of Sustainable and Catalytic Processing.