Jeremy S Guest

Jeremy S Guest is a Civil and Environmental Engineering Professor and David C. Crawford Faculty Scholar at the University of Illinois. He holds additional roles as Levenick Professor and Director of the Levenick Center for a Climate-Smart Circular Bioeconomy, and serves as Associate Director for Research at the Institute for Sustainability, Energy, and Environment. He is also an Affiliate of the Center for Social & Behavioral Science.

His research focuses on sustainable biofuels, resource recovery from wastewater, and circular economy systems. Key areas include biorefinery design, life cycle assessment, and innovative sanitation technologies. Guest’s work emphasizes integrating environmental sustainability with economic feasibility, particularly in contexts like decentralized water reuse systems and non-sewered sanitation solutions.

• Recipient of the AEESP Teaching Award (2019), NSF CAREER Award (2014), and Paul L. Busch Award (2016).
• Leads the Levenick Center, advancing climate-smart bioeconomy strategies.
• Research collaborations span global sustainability challenges, including U.S. Army installation water reuse and regional bioenergy crop optimization.

His articles highlight advancements in hydrothermal valorization of organic wastes, techno-economic analyses of biofuel production, and microbial community dynamics in wastewater systems.