Zhiyou Wen 温志友

Dr. Zhiyou Wen is a William K. Deal Agricultural Innovation Professor at Iowa State University. He is the Director of Center for Crops Utilization Research, a multidisciplinary research, development and technology transfer program at Iowa State University with focus on exploring new food, feed and nonfood industrial uses for agricultural materials. His research focuses on green and sustainable food, fuel and biomaterials processing technologies. One area of his research studies the cultivation of microalgae for wastewater treatment and for value-added products. In 2016, Dr. Wen co-funded Gross-Wen Technologies Inc., an Iowa-based company that uses algae to mitigate water pollution and produce high-value products such as fertilizers and bio-based plastics from algal biomass. The company co-owns the intellectual property with Iowa State University Research Foundation on a novel Revolving Algal Biofilm (RAB) system, which is an innovative and extremely effective microalgae cultivation system.