Editorial: Changing of the guard: Dr. Arthur Ragauskas assumes TAPPI Journal editor-in-chief role, TAPPI Journal January 2026

 


In 2014, after 15 years at the Institute of Paper Science and Technology (IPST) in Atlanta, GA, Ragauskas assumed the Governor’s Chair for Biorefining based in UT’s Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, with a complementary appointment in the UT Institute of Agriculture’s Department of Forestry, Wildlife, and Fisheries. He serves in the Energy and Environmental Sciences Directorate, Biosciences Division, at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL). Ragauskas was also the first Fulbright Chair in Alternative Energy, and his activities at Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden, were focused on the forest biorefinery and new biofuel conversion technologies for lignocellulosics.

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Author: Monica Shaw
Editorial: Changing of the guard: Dr. Arthur Ragauskas assum
TAPPI is pleased to announce that Dr. Arthur J. Ragauskas has assumed the editor-in-chief role for TAPPI Journal. Ragauskas, who is a professor at University of Tennessee (UT) in Knoxville, TN, has been a member of the TAPPI Journal Editorial Board since 2011 and is a TAPPI Fellow, as well as recipient of the TAPPI Gunnar Nicholson Gold Medal Award, among his many accomplishments. As a member of the Editorial Board, Ragauskas has curated eight special issues on a range of topics, including nanocellulose, lignocellulose, lignin valorization, and the forest biorefinery.
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