Mahesh Bule is a postdoctoral research associate based at the Bioprocessing and Bioproducts Engineering Laboratory (BBEL), in the Department of Biological Systems Engineering at Washington State University.

For the NARA project, he works with Dr. Shulin Chen to develop models which provide techno-economic analyses on various conversion processes. The Aspen Plus platform is used to build the models.

Mahesh received his doctorate and a master’s degree in bioprocess technology from the Institute of Chemical Technology (formerly UDCT) in Mumbai, India.