Frederick C. Michel Jr.

Dr. Michel's group conducts research in three  areas: (1) Composting, focused on the recycling of food scraps, yard trimmings and manure, understanding and mitigating the impacts of contaminants such as herbicides, plastics and pathogens and understanding the effects of composts on the microbial ecology of soils and plant growing media, (2) Pretreatments to improve bioethanol production from corn and cellulosic feed stocks and biogas production during anaerobic digestion, (3) Bioprocessing for the extraction and purification of natural rubber and inulin from the roots of Taraxacum kok Sagyhz (TK), the Russian dandelion. He serves as the editor of Compost Science and Utilization journal, is a board member of the Organics Recycling Association of Ohio, serves on the USCC Persistent Herbicide Task Force, is the President of the Wayne County Sustainable Energy Network and is the Chair of the OSU Wooster Sustainability Committee. He teaches the Ohio Compost Operator Education Course, Solar Energy Systems and FABE courses related to biomass conversion. He has published more than seventy peer reviewed scientific papers and in 2011 received the Rufus Chaney award for Research Excellence from the USCC. 

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