Hi,

I'm Graham Walker

I am a senior in Biosystems Engineering, Clemson University class of 2020 with a B.S. bioprocessing emphasis. My major was not like any other, our lectures became our passions as we discovered worldwide issues with little to no solutions. It has made us think, discover, research, and act to advance our world forward in facing limits to growth. The world of microbiology and its uses in sustainable design became our commitment: creating bioreactors to produce ethanol biofuel or fungi to make biopharmaceuticals became our backbone. Sustainable processes will form a healthy world. The necessity of sustainability incites passion within me to share what we have studied. This passion combined with my rapturous attitude awarded me a position as an eco tour guide in my hometown Charleston, South Carolina. This position allowed me to share the science and mindset I had learned and present it to a wide range of people varying socially, politically, and ethnically empowering them with information about our world, so they can make educated decisions.

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Moving forward from my undergraduate experience, my work is focused on understanding the fundamentals of various biological systems in order to sustainably and feasibly meet the needs of marginalized communities around the world. My areas of focus include biofuel production, microbial kinetics, wastewater anaerobic digestion, regenerative agriculture and their unique qualities that help meet the needs of communities facing desertification, low crop yield, and energy scarcity. The primary targets of my interests are in rural areas where agriculture is a primary way of livelihood. Implementing new processes must take sustainability into foundational consideration – having impacts that span beyond direct mechanisms and processes and consider input and output ramifications. These processes tend to take issues such as climate change and marginalization into account and strive to design implementations that directly effect these issues through cost, energy usage type, carbon offset, waste generation/utilization, cultural adaptation, input resourcing, and so much more. Every part of my work and research aims to address the sustainability of each respective process and how it can be best implemented for the intended recipient in contrast to how the current need is being met. The most forward way to set sustainability design is through a closed loop process where all co and waste products are utilized and maximized as high value products. Currently I am researching field parameters of algal growth in order to better design field and large scale bioreactors for biodiesel, bioethanol, and other forms of energy production through biomass utilization. These processes indirectly influence the availability of energy to low resource capacity and marginalized areas in both coastal and inland conditions. This small microcosm provides a copious number of solutions to issues in various areas of the world, but it is the micro ideas that will move our world forward as we tailor ideas to needs across the growing issues we have caused in our environment; our lives.

This site shows my first personal statement in fellowship writing and will include an updated version soon as well as a CV pdf. You can find my resume, personal involvements, and some achievements throughout the tabs. Please email me if you have any questions! 

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Warmly, Graham