Associate Professor
Department of Animal Sciences
The Ohio State University
United States of America
Tel: 1-330-263-3796
Dr. Thaddeus Chukwuemeka Ezeji is a associate professor in Department of animal sciences at The Ohio State University, USA. He received his B.S. in Food Science and Technology at University of Nigeria Nsukka, M.S. in Food Technology at University of Ibadan, and Ph.D. in Microbiology at University of Rostock, Germany. His 6 years postdoctoral and Research Assistant Professor efforts at University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign focused on fermentation technologies, metabolic engineering of solventogenic (butanologenic) Clostridium species, and downstream processing of fermentation products. In 2007, Dr. Ezeji joined the Animal Science Department at The Ohio State University and Ohio State Agricultural and Development Center (OARDC) as an Assistant Professor. Dr. Ezeji’s research laboratory focuses on isolation, identification and characterization of microorganisms of biotechnological importance, pretreatment of lignocellulosic biomass and conversion into biofuels and chemicals, development of superior microbial strains for efficient metabolism of lignocellulosic hydrolysates, and design of advanced fermentation systems. His laboratory at the Ohio State University is also engaged in research activities on anaerobic digestion, probiotic, metabolomics, genetic and metabolic engineering of bacteria for enhanced butanol and butanediol production.
