Institution/Organization: University of Tennessee

Email Address:  dcarrie1@utk.edu

Committee(s): Collaborator

Danielle Julie (goes by Julie) received her BSc in Agricultural Engineering in 1984, her M Eng in Chemical Engineering in 1986 and her PhD in Chemical Engineering in 1992, all from McGill University in Montreal, Canada. From 1992 to 1994, she did postdoctoral work at the University of Leiden in The Netherlands and from 1994 to 1996 at the Plant Biotechnology Institute in Saskatoon, Canada. Julie has been faculty since 1996, first at the University of Saskatchewan in Bioresource Engineering (Saskatoon, Canada) until 2000, then from 2000 to 2016 at the University of Arkansas (Fayetteville, Arkansas) in the Department of Biological and Agricultural Engineering. She was promoted to Professor in 2009. While at the Universities of Saskatchewan and Arkansas, her research program was focused on the extraction of carbohydrates and phytochemicals from biomass, (Carrier continued) such as milk thistle, poplar, pine and sweetgum. She was particularly interested by pressurized hot water and by dilute acid extractions, such that these unit operations could be coupled to existing biochemical biorefinery processing technology or pulp mill operations. She has published 99 peer-reviewed papers and has garnered more than $7 million for her research program. She has mentored over 20 graduate students, 4 postdocs and 15 undergraduate honors theses. She has served on over 30 National Science Foundation and United States Department of Agriculture scientific panels. Since April 1, 2016 she is serving as Professor and Head of the Department of Biosystems Engineering and Soil Science at the University of Tennessee (Knoxville, Tennessee), a department with 360 undergraduates, 35 graduate students, and 28 faculty. Since 2016, she is associate editor for ACS Sustainable Chemistry and Engineering and has served from 2019 to 2022 on the American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers (ASABE) Board of Trustees.