Gordon Selling | USDA Agricultural Research Service | USA
Dr. Gordon Selling is a Lead Scientist working for the United States Dept. of Agriculture’s Agricultural Research Service in Peoria, IL since 2003. He received his Ph.D. in Organic Chemistry from the University of Illinois – Urbana/Champaign in 1988. In his current work he performs research on developing new higher value products using corn and soy protein and corn starch. His focus is on electrospinning modified proteins and producing starch graft co-polymers. Prior to working in Peoria, he worked for E.I. DuPont for 15 years. At DuPont he worked in their spandex fiber business. He worked on developing new polymers and additives that produced higher value fibers.
