Rate My Professor Jude Onwudili

A Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (FRSC), he is also an Associate Member of the Institution of Chemical Engineers, Full Member of the Society of Chemical Industry, and Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. Onwudili's research specializations include hydrothermal processing of biomass and organic wastes, catalysis for fuels and chemicals production, thermochemical conversion via pyrolysis, liquefaction, and gasification of biomass, algae, plastics, and municipal solid wastes, as well as CO2 utilization and emission control. He leads the Sustainable Fuels and Chemicals Research Team at EBRI. Notable publications encompass "Advancing CO2 utilisation via suspension-based carboxylation of single and mixed biomass-derived phenolics to produce high-value hydroxybenzoic acids" (Chemical Engineering Journal, 2025), "Production of syringic acid by direct CO2 insertion into syringol via a Kolbe–Schmitt type reaction" (RSC Sustainability, 2026), and "Assessment of Prosopis juliflora feedstock for bioethanol production potential via hydrolysis and physicochemical analysis" (Industrial Crops and Products, 2025). He holds editorial positions, including Advisory Board Member for the Journal of Applied and Analytical Pyrolysis, ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering, and RSC Sustainable Energy & Fuels, and Associate Editor for Frontiers in Chemistry's Chemical Engineering section.