Lucian Lucia

Dr. Lucian A. Lucia currently serves as Professor in the Departments of Forest Biomaterials and Chemistry and as faculty in the programs of Fiber & Polymer Science and Environmental Sciences at North Carolina State University. His laboratory, The Laboratory of Soft Materials & Green Chemistry, probes fundamental materials science topics focused on the chemistry of renewable polymers. He received his Ph.D. in physical organic chemistry from the University of Florida for modeling photoinduced charge separation states of novel Rhenium (I)-based organometallic ensembles as a first order approximation of photosynthesis. He began his professional career as an Assistant Professor at the Georgia Institute of Technology examining the mechanism of singlet oxygen’s chemistry with lignin & cellulose. A large part of his recent work has been focused on the chemical modification of cellulosics for advanced applications. He teaches The Principles of Green Chemistry (PSE/CH 335) and Pulp Processing Analysis (PSE 371) at NCSU. He has co-founded and co-edits an open-access international research journal, BioResources, that is dedicated to original research articles, reviews, and editorials on the fundamental science & engineering and advanced applications of lignocellulosic materials.