Michael Urynowicz, Ph.D
Co-Founder, Chief Production Officer, and CTO
Dr. Urynowicz is a world recognized expert in secondary biogenic natural gas, in situ chemical oxidation and remediation. Michael is a tenured professor at the University of Wyoming, where he has been the Director of the Center for Biogenic Natural Gas Research for the past 12 years. Previously, he was also the Founder, Managing Director and Principal Engineer at Envirox LLC, an environmental company specializing in the remediation of complex hazardous waste sites. During his career, Dr. Urynowicz has been involved in a wide range of research related to secondary biogenic coalbed natural gas, in situ chemical oxidation and the remediation of contaminated sites. Michael has published dozens of technical papers and reports and has given invited lectures across the United States and abroad over his 20+ year career in academia.
Michael is the technical co-founder of Cowboy Clean Fuels after 10+ years of research and laboratory experiments, which received $3+ million in grant funding. Michael is the author on all of the patents in which Cowboy has an exclusive license to commercialize.
Michael’s academic degrees include a B.S. in Chemical Engineering from Michigan State University, M.S. in Civil/Environmental Engineering from the University of Wisconsin, M.S. in Environmental Science & Engineering from the Colorado School of Mines, and a Ph.D. in Environmental Science & Engineering from the Colorado School of Mines.