Dr. Luke M. Haverhals is an analytical chemist/materials scientist turned entrepreneur working to produce circular, high performance materials for a wide variety of applications. Luke is the founder & CEO of Natural Fiber Welding as well as an Assistant Research Professor at Bradley University. Luke has expertise in scalable business + technology solutions for the circular economy. He is experienced with natural materials, nanomaterials, manufacturing technologies and automation. He is a NSF I-Corps @ DoD graduate, a Unreasonable Group Fellow, and part of the 2021 Circulars Accelerator program.