Title: Junior Pilot Plant Specialist
Email: hopejp2@illinois.edu
Hope Park graduated from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Illinois with a Bachelor’s in Chemical Engineering and a minor in Food Science. Upon graduating she interned at the ADM Modeling Center located in Illinois’s Research Park, creating process simulations and financial models for various R&D and prospective optimization projects. She was later hired as an ADM Process Development Scientist with an emphasis on chromatography, before joining IBRL in August 2023 as a member of the Down Stream Processing Team. She looks forward to working with a wider range of processing technologies and increasing her hands-on experience with process machinery, all while gaining exposure to the world of bioprocessing.