Rate My Professor Hossein Jahromi

Hossein Jahromi is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Biosystems Engineering at Auburn University, a position he has held since October 2023. Prior to this, he served as Assistant Research Professor in the same department from May 2022 to September 2023 and as Postdoctoral Fellow from April 2019 to April 2022. His academic journey includes a Ph.D. in Biological Engineering from Utah State University (2014-2019), an M.S. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Kerman, Iran (2010-2013), and a B.S. in Chemical Engineering from Shiraz University, Iran (2005-2010). Jahromi's expertise encompasses heterogeneous catalysis, hydrotreatment and hydrodeoxygenation, thermochemical conversion processes such as pyrolysis, gasification, and hydrothermal liquefaction, bio-lubricants and tribology, enhanced oil recovery, and life cycle assessment.

Jahromi has been principal investigator and co-investigator on multiple funded projects, including a $650,000 USDA-NIFA grant for eco-friendly biolubricant production from waste cooking oil (2023-2025, PI, 40% credit), a $10,000,000 USDA-NIFA project on reimagining controlled environment agriculture (2023-2027, Co-PI, 5% credit), and a $1,000,000 USDA-NIFA grant for dual-function engineered biochar (2023-2027, Co-PI, 20% credit), among others totaling millions in funding from USDA, NSF, and industry partners. He co-invented commercialized patents, such as 'Red Mud Compositions and Methods Related Thereto' (Application No. 16/376,972, sold for $8.5 million plus royalties) and 'Bio-Lubricant Compositions and Methods Thereof' (US Patent App. No. 17/939,427). His selected publications include 'Biocarbon-catalyzed methane decomposition towards clean hydrogen and enhanced biocarbon production' (International Journal of Hydrogen Energy, 2024), 'Magnesium doped biochar for simultaneous adsorption of phosphate and nitrogen ions from aqueous solution' (Chemosphere, 2024), 'Hydrotreatment of solvent-extracted biocrude from hydrothermal liquefaction of municipal sewage sludge' (Energy Conversion and Management, 2022), 'Synthesis of Novel Biolubricants from Waste Cooking Oil and Cyclic Oxygenates through an Integrated Catalytic Process' (ACS Sustainable Chemistry and Engineering, 2021), and 'Hydrocarbon biolubricants from hydrotreated renewable and waste derived liquid intermediates' (Journal of Cleaner Production, 2023). These contributions advance sustainable biomass conversion, clean energy production, and environmental remediation technologies.