Yoel Rene Cortes-Pena



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Education

  • Ph.D., Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, May 2023
  • M.S., Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, May 2019
  • B.S., Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, 2016

    • I am currently a Ph.D. student in the Guest Group laboratory at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC). As part of the Center for Advanced Bioenergy and Bioproducts Innovation (CABBI), I create and leverage tools to design, simulate, and perform techno-economic analysis and life cycle assessment of biorefineries. Using automated biorefinery models, I perform rigorous uncertainty and sensitivity analyses to navigate trade-offs and charter development roadmaps for emerging and conceptual technologies. I’m the lead developer of BioSTEAM and core contributor to Caleb Bell’s chemicals library.