Deepayan Debnath

Deepayan Debnath serves as senior research scientist at the Institute for Sustainability, Energy, and Environment at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, where his role is to conduct problem-oriented policy-relevant research in the broader field of bioenergy and biofuels and their implications for land use change, water and water quality, and greenhouse gas emissions. He has served as a senior research associate with Food and Agricultural Policy Research Institute at the University of...See more

Deepayan Debnath serves as senior research scientist at the Institute for Sustainability, Energy, and Environment at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, where his role is to conduct problem-oriented policy-relevant research in the broader field of bioenergy and biofuels and their implications for land use change, water and water quality, and greenhouse gas emissions. He has served as a senior research associate with Food and Agricultural Policy Research Institute at the University of Missouri-Columbia, where he developed models of agricultural and biofuel markets. He has worked at Organization for Economic Cooperation Development, Paris, France and at the Center for Agricultural and Rural Development at Iowa State University. Dr. Debnath has published extensively in high impact journals including Applied Energy, Energy, and Biomass & Bioenergy. He has also written an op-ed in The Economics Times, the world's second most widely read business newspaper. He received Ph.D. in Agricultural Economics from Oklahoma State University with Leonard F. Miller Distinguished Graduate and Endowed International Agricultural Economics Fellowships. See less