Eyas Mahmoud is a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Delaware and is a student in the Catalysis Center for Energy Innovation. He is advised by Raul Lobo. Eyas is working on developing renewable routes to chemicals such as plasticizers and polyesters. One specific area of interest is the renewable chemical manufacture for the production of p-xylene, a feedstock for polyester and polyethylene terephthalate plastics. Eyas holds a B.S.E. in Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering from the University of Pennsylvania.