John is a distinguished research fellow at the Corporation where he is helping to design and create commercial technologies inspired from nature consistent with the principles of green chemistry. With over 300 patents, he has invented solutions for dozens of multinational corporations. His inventions have also served as the basis for several new companies. Examples include: (ALS therapy), (hair color restoration), (asphalt warm mix rejuvenators), (lowlight indoor photovoltaic devices for IoT and BIPV).
He is one of the cofounders of the field of green chemistry, coauthoring the defining and articulating the 12 principles of green chemistry with Paul Anastas. John has over 100 publications providing foundational work in the fields of noncovalent derivatization, polymer photochemistry, metal oxide semiconductors and synthetic organic chemistry. John has received prestigious awards as an academic ( 鈥� President G. W. Bush & NSF, 2004), industrial chemist ( 鈥� Society of 91成人短视频 Industry, 2014), inventor ( 鈥� Lemelson Foundation & AAAS) and for governmental chemicals policy ( 鈥� Vice President A. Gore & EPA, 1997). He received the American Institute of Chemistry鈥檚 Northeast Division鈥檚 for 2002 and the Council of Science Society President鈥檚 2008 . Warner was named by ICI Services as one of the people impacting the global chemical industries. In 2011 he was elected a and named one of 鈥�25 鈥� by Utne Reader. He serves as at Monash University in Australia. He serves as the for the Center for Sustainable and Circular Technologies at the University of Bath. In 2017 the German Ministry of Economic Affairs and The Technical University of Berlin announced the naming of 鈥淭he 鈥� in his honor.
John received his BS in Chemistry from , and his PhD in Chemistry from University. After working at the Corporation for nearly a decade, he then served as tenured full professor at UMASS and (Chemistry and Plastics Engineering). In 2007 he founded the , with Jim Babcock (a research organization developing green chemistry technologies), and with Amy Cannon (a non-profit dedicated to sustainability and green chemistry education). He now advises several international organizations and in 2020 working with the Zymergen Corporation.