Catherine “Catie” E. Brewer completed a B.S. in Chemistry at Indiana U. of Pennsylvania, a Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering and Biorenewable Resources & Technology at Iowa State University, and a postdoc at Rice University. She is the director of NMSU’s Brewery Engineering program (NMSBrew) and the John Kaichiro Nakayama and Tome Miyaguchi Nakayama Endowed Professor for interdisciplinary research and education. Dr. Brewer was recently promoted to co-editor-in-chief of Renewable & Sustainable Energy Reviews. Her research interests include biomass utilization, biochar, pyrolysis, soil remediation, renewable fuels, water treatment, resilience engineering, and sustainable agriculture.