Dr. Gayle Bentley is a technology manager for the Conversion Program in the Bioenergy Technologies Office at the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE). She oversees a diverse research and development portfolio focused on enabling the industrial production of renewable biofuels and biochemicals. Dr. Bentley is actively engaged in developing government-wide strategies to support the bioeconomy, including initiatives in data, synthetic biology, and plastics strategy. Prior to her role at DOE, Dr. Bentley was a postdoctoral researcher at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory where she engineered microorganisms to produce value-added chemicals. She holds a PhD in Molecular Microbiology and Microbial Pathogenesis from Washington University in St. Louis, and both a bachelor’s degree in microbiology and a master’s degree in public health from The University of Arizona.
