Cynthia Ofori-Boateng

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Dr. Cynthia Ofori-Boateng is currently an Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering at the University of Pittsburgh, Johnstown with a BSc., MSc. and Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering. Prior to her current role, she was a Senior Scientist supporting Upstream Process Development Projects at the Center for Breakthrough Medicines at the Discovery Labs and Eurofins Lancaster Laboratories, Inc. with Janssen Pharmaceutical Company of Johnson and Johnson in Pennsylvania, USA. Cynthia has about 15 years of both academic and industrial experience through which she has been able to achieve excellence through publications, research, scholarships, and teaching. Cynthia was part of a team that designed and installed a 10 m3 biogas plant as well as built a fuel analytical testing laboratory for Koforidua Technical University in Ghana. Whilst at the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA/ARS) in Wyndmoor, Pennsylvania, Cynthia helped her team to develop a new technology (Tail Gas Reactive Pyrolysis/TGRP) which was more sustainable than the existing pyrolysis plant. Cynthia led the team to assess and improve the sustainability of the TGRP plant which could produce biofuel to generate electricity at about 65% cheaper selling price compared to conventional electricity production from crude oil.  With the same innovative engineering and entrepreneurial ideas and skills, Cynthia has supervised many groups of students to design pilot and commercial biofuel production plants utilizing waste materials for potential funding, set up and operation. Cynthia’s Bioproducts Sustainability Research Group also performs laboratory experiments on how to improve biofuel production plants by optimizing and modeling processes in Aspen Plus software and performing sustainability assessment via the exergetic life cycle (ExLCA) and exergo-economic analyses tools. Cynthia’s main career focus has been on the Sustainability of Biorefineries and Waste Management Technologies. Cynthia has attended numerous international conferences to present her research findings, and has published numerous research articles, a couple of books and book chapters. Cynthia is a member of the Ghana Institution of Engineers (GhIE), American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) and American Chemical Society (ACS).