Dr. John Paul Maye is technical director at Hopsteiner, with more than 23 years of experience in the hop industry. Dr. Maye received his Ph.D. in organic chemistry at Purdue University in 1994, and started work as a hop chemist in 1993. He has published several peer-reviewed papers on hops and has received many hop-related patents. He was a recipient of the ASBC’s Eric Kneen Memorial Award for his work on preparing stable HPLC calibration standards for isomerized and reduced alpha acids. He is also a founding member and secretary of the International Hop Standards Committee.