Rate My Professor George Philippidis

George Philippidis is Acting Dean of the Patel College of Global Sustainability and Director of the Sustainable Energy concentration at the University of South Florida. A Fulbright Specialist Scholar and Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, he holds a Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Minnesota and an MBA from the University of Denver. His distinguished career spans academia, industry, and government advisory roles. He began at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory in Denver, pioneering biomass conversion to ethanol as a renewable transportation fuel. Subsequently, he advanced clean technology commercialization at Thermo Fisher Scientific in Boston and created and directed the energy business at the Applied Research Center in Miami. Dr. Philippidis has managed energy and environmental projects across the US and Latin America, partnered in venture capital firms, and founded technology start-ups. He has advised the US State Department, US Department of Agriculture, US Department of Energy, Organization of American States, and Florida Office of Energy, while serving on company advisory boards.