2020 SWANApalooza

Armando McDonald
Professor, Renewable Materials Chemistry
University of Idaho


Armando McDonald is a Professor of Renewable Materials in the Department of Forest, Rangeland and Fire Science, University of Idaho (UI) with over 36 years’ experience in bioproducts and biomaterials research and development and has presented and published numerous articles. Armando came to UI in 2001 from New Zealand Forest Research, where he was a Group Leader of the Materials Discovery group. His time at UI is devoted to mainly research and teaching with some extension/service activities. He teaches classes in Biocomposites, Biomass chemistry, and Bioproducts and Bioprocess Development. Dr. McDonald has graduated eight Ph.D. students and 15 M.S. students and hosted 15 International visiting scholars in his Renewable Materials Laboratory. Dr. McDonalds’ group is currently investigating: (i) bioplastics from lignin and other waste streams, (ii) biofuels from pyrolysis of biomass and plastics, (iii) development of nanostructured Fischer-Tropsch catalysts for production of fuels, (iv) biocomposites, (v) algae conversion to fuels, (vi) biomass conversion into chemicals, (vii) torrefaction of biomass and plastic waste, and (viii) natural products chemistry. Furthermore, Dr. McDonald also works with industry from service work to product development projects.

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