Jason Hill

Jason Hill is a Resident Fellow of the Institute on the Environment at the University of Minnesota, where he also serves as a Program Director for Sustainable Bioenergy Systems. His research interests include the technological, environmental, economic, and social aspects of sustainable bioenergy production from current and next‐generation feedstocks. His work on the life‐cycle impacts of transportation biofuels has been published in the journals Science and the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. He is currently focusing on how the expanding global biofuels industry impacts climate change, land use, biodiversity, and human health. Dr. Hill has testified before U.S. Senate committees on the use of diverse prairie biomass for biofuel production and on how land‐use change impacts the net greenhouse gas emissions from ethanol and biodiesel. Dr. Hill received his AB in Biology from Harvard College and his PhD in Plant Biological Sciences from the University of Minnesota.