Dr. Matthew Korey specializes in the development and industrialization of novel, sustainable manufacturing technologies for plastics and their composites. His work focuses on mechanical, chemical, biological, and thermochemical methods of composite recycling and the use of advanced re-processing techniques and repurposing to recycle industrial composites waste.
Dr. Korey also has an R&D portfolio looking at the development and implementation of sustainably derived plastics made from renewable, waste-derived, and greenhouse gas-based plastics. He also has several projects focused on the lifecycle and technoeconomic analysis of plastics manufacturing, separation, and recycling. For his work he was awarded the 2024 Outstanding Young Manufacturing Engineer award at the Society of Manufacturing Engineers.
Matt is currently an Associate R&D Scientist at the Manufacturing Demonstration Facility at Oak Ridge National Laboratory and an Assistant Professor in Mechanical, Aerospace, and Biomedical Engineering at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. He is also co-chair of the Circular Economy Working Group at the Institute of Advanced Composites Manufacturing and Innovation (IACMI) and Founding Chair of TMS PRIDE.