This Podcast on Forages for a circular bioeconomy is hosted by SRUC's Vijay Thakur, our very own Professor in New Products from Biomass.

Vijay heads up biorefining & advanced materials research (BAMRC) at SRUC.

In this podcast, the panel discusses the role of Forages in a circular economy with a prime focus on current challenges and future perspectives.

Vijay is joined by special guest, Dr James Gaffey.

James is a Principal Investigator and Co-Director of the Circular Bioeconomy Research Group at Shannon Applied Biotechnology Centre at Munster Technology University. He has been coordinator, lead PI and Co-PI on several EU and nationally-funded circular bioeconomy research projects. He is a member of the Expert Advisory Group to Ireland's National Bioeconomy Forum, and was on the Expert Panel for the Impact Assessment of Circular Biobased Europe Joint Undertaking (CBE JU) successor programme to BBI JU under the Horizon Europe programme. Prior to joining MTU, James worked in the biorefinery industry since 2009 with the Technology Centre for Biorefining and Bioenergy, Sustainable Biopolymers and Cellulac Ltd. 

Also joining the panel from SRUC is:

• Dr David Lawson, an expert in Grassland agronomy and productivity, alternative outputs from grassland through bioprocessing and biomass-based renewable energy production.
• Dr John Newbold, Head of SRUC's Global Climate Emergency Challenge Centre
• Dr Vijai Gupta, an expert in biomass valorisation to value-added bioproducts, also from SRUC
• Professor Bob Rees, Head of Carbon, Crops and Soils at SRUC.

Link to SRUC's BAMRC pages.