John Muzzy is Professor of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering, Chairman of the Multidisciplinary Polymer Engineering Program and Co-Director of the Polymer Processing Center at Georgia Tech. He received his B.S.E. in Basic Engineering (1963) and M.S.E. in Polymers (1964) from Princeton University and his Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (1970). He has over 100 publications. He has worked as a development engineer with Jet-Heet, Inc. and E.I. duPont de Nemours & Co.  He has been a faculty intern with A. T. & T., Milliken, Inc., and Lockheed Martin Co. He was cofounder of Applied Fiber Systems, Ltd., now a Division of Hexcel, Inc., which has commercialized composites prepregging technology developed at Georgia Tech. He founded Georgia Composites, Inc. which makes reinforced composites from recycled plastics. During 2000 he spent three months on sabbatical at Ecole Nationale Superiere d'Arts et Metiers (ENSAM) in Paris.

His current research emphasizes polymer recycling and renewable energy. He is investigating natural fiber reinforced composites with matrices derived from post consumer carpet. Also, he is investigating the catalytic conversion of post-consumer carpet into monomers and liquid fuels. He is part of the team working on the conversion of pine to ethanol for C2 Biofuels, LLC.