Garret Miyake is a professor of chemistry at Colorado State University. He and his team study photoredox catalysis, synthetic organic chemistries, functional polymer synthesis, photonic crystals, and additive manufacturing. Sustainable photocatalyst technology is one of many inventions developed in his lab.

Miyake earned his Ph.D. in chemistry at Colorado State University and – as a postdoctoral researcher – worked with Nobel Laureate Robert Grubbs at the California Institute of Technology. He is the co-founder and scientific advisor of the sustainable chemical technology company New Iridium and the director of the U.S. National Science Foundation’s Center for Sustainable Photoredox Catalysis (SuPRCat). He has published more than 60 scientific papers in top-tier journals such as Science.