John Birmingham is a process engineer at Origin Materials, a California-based startup company focused on commercializing new and existing chemical building blocks. Origin has developed a new furan-based chemical platform that converts diverse biofeedstocks into value-added chemicals like paraxylene. John has managed projects on design and optimization of pilot-scale reactor systems, as well as heterogeneous catalyst development. Before joining Origin, he received B.S. and M.S. degrees in chemical engineering from University of Delaware and California Institute of...Read more
