Matthew Scholz
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Mail code: 8204Campus: Tempe
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Matt Scholz is a Research Professor in the Global Futures Lab and Senior Project Manager for the Sustainable Phosphorus Alliance. He also serves as a co-managing director of the NSF-funded STEPS Science and Technology Center for phosphorus sustainability, where he co-manages stakeholder engagement for the Center.
Previously, he worked as a Senior Project Manager for Walton Sustainability Solutions Service and as a Senior Research Scientist for The Sustainability Consortium. He completed a postdoc in the Department of Chemistry at Colorado School of Mines and a PhD at the University of Arizona, where his research focused on algal biofuels. He has worked in maize molecular genetics and holds an MS in environmental engineering from the University of Arizona.
Supply-chain sustainability; multistakeholder engagement; nutrient pollution
- Baker, J., Schunk, N., Scholz, M., Merck, A., Muenich, R., Westerhoff, P., Elser, J., Duckworth, O., Gatiboni, L., Islam, M., Marshall, A., Sozzani, R., and Mayer, B. (2024). Global-to-Local Dependencies in Phosphorus Mass Flows and Markets: Pathways to Improving System Resiliency in Response to Exogenous Shocks. Environmental Science & Technology Letters Article ASAP. DOI: 10.1021/acs.estlett.4c00208
- Dooley, K., Thakker, V., Bakshi, B., Scholz, M., Hafsa, F., Basile, G., and Buch, R. (2022), “A multi-disciplinary assessment of innovations to improve grocery bag circularity,” Computer Aided Chemical Engineering, 49: 625-630, https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-323-85159-6.50104-4.
- Scholz, M. (2020). Nutrients and Climate Change: (1) – Aquatic Methane Emissions. European Sustainable Phosphorus Platform SCOPE Newsletter 135:1-14.
- Scholz, M., Rauh, E., Muenich, R. (2018). A compendium of regulated concentrated animal feeding operation (CAFO) manure land application regulations. Sustainable Phosphorus Alliance white paper, 121 pp.
- Muenich, R., Rauh, E., Scholz, M. (2019). A compendium of manure land application regulations. Sustainable Phosphorus Alliance white paper, 253 pp.
- Scholz, M. (2017). Creating a circular economy for phosphorus fertilizers. Fertilizer Focus, Sept/Oct: 36-41.
- The Sustainability Consortium (2016). Product Sustainability Toolkits (3 chapters contributed). Tempe, AZ: M.J. Scholz.
- The Sustainability Consortium (2015). Product Sustainability Toolkits (19 revised chapters contributed). Tempe, AZ: M.J. Scholz.
- The Sustainability Consortium (2014). Product Sustainability Toolkits (9 chapters contributed). Tempe, AZ: M.J. Scholz.
- Scholz, M. J., Weiss, T. L., Jinkerson, R. E., Jing, J., Roth, R., Goodenough, U., … Gerken, H. G. (2014). Ultrastructure and composition of the Nannochloropsis gaditana cell wall. Eukaryotic Cell, 13(11), 1450–1464.
- Work, V. H., Bentley, F. K., Scholz, M. J., D’Adamo, S., Gu, H., Vogler, B. W., … Posewitz, M. C. (2013). Biocommodities from photosynthetic microorganisms. Environmental Progress & Sustainable Energy, 32(4), 989–1001. doi:10.1002/ep.11849
- Scholz MJ, Hoshino T, Johnston D, Riley MR, and Cuello J. (2011). Flocculation of wall-deficient cells of Chlamydomonas reinhardtii mutant cw15 by calcium and methanol. Biomass & Bioenergy, 35(12): 4835-4840.
- Scholz, M. J., Riley, M. R., & Cuello, J. L. (2013). Acid hydrolysis and fermentation of microalgal starches to ethanol by the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Biomass and Bioenergy, 48(0), 59–65. doi:10.1016/j.biombioe.2012.10.026
- Doyle SE, Scholz MJ, Greer KA, Darnell DK, Antin PB, Klewer SE, and Runyan RB. Latrophilin-2 is a novel component of the epithelial-mesenchymal transition within the atrioventricular canal of the embryonic chicken heart. Dev. Dynamics, 235(12):3213-21.
- Scholz MJ, Mathine DM, Hoda T, Crawford R, and Runyan RB. A spectroscopic CMOS photodetector for use with a cell-based biosensor. Biophotonics/Optical Interconnects and VLSI Photonics/WBM Microcavities, 2004 Digest of the LEOS Summer Topical Meetings, pp. 35-36.