Keynote: A More Sustainable Future via Polymer Circularity: Dr. Kathryn Beers, NIST
Dr. Kathryn Beers, NIST
Program Manager, Circular Economy NIST
Kathryn Beers is a Senior Research Scientist at NIST and leads the Circular Economy program. She is engaged across the Institute in activities related to plastics
recycling, new materials design, and environmental impacts of plastic waste. The program also includes elements of future data challenges, interfacing economics and other social sciences with materials research and manufacturing, and going beyond plastics challenges to critical minerals, other inorganic materials, and beyond. She has been recognized with
the President’s Early Career Award in Science and Engineering (PECASE), the Arthur S. Flemming Award for public service, the CMU Alumni Achievement Award and as a Fellow of the American Chemical Society. She is a former Chair of the ACS Polymer Chemistry Division, and serves on the Green Chemistry Institute’s Advisory Board. Kate earned a BS in chemistry from The College of William and Mary and MS and PhD degrees in polymer science and chemistry, respectively, from Carnegie Mellon University.
Dr. Marissa Reigel, Colorado School of Mines