Background
Ostgard was born on November 14, 1957 in Grand Forks, North Dakota, United States; the son of Joseph and Alice (Thacker) Ostgard.
Springfield, Illinois, United States
Southern Illinois University
Szeged, Hungary
Józef Attila Science University
Evanston, Illinois, United States
Northwestern University
Ostgard was born on November 14, 1957 in Grand Forks, North Dakota, United States; the son of Joseph and Alice (Thacker) Ostgard.
Ostgard received a Bachelor of Science degree in Chemistry and a Bachelor of Science degree in Education from Southern Illinois University in 1980. Ten years later he was given a Doctor of Philosophy degree in Organic Chemistry from the same university. Also in 1987, Daniel was given a Doctor of Philosophy degree at József Attila Science University.
Ostgard began his career as a teacher of science at North Chicago Community High School in 1980. A year later he took the same position at American School of Barcelona and held it for two years. Then in 1990, Daniel became a postdoctoral researcher at Northwestern University.
Also in 1991, he was appointed a project leader of the catalyst group at Degussa corporation, where he developed precious metal powder and fixed bed catalysts for industrial applications initially in New Jersey and later on in Kentucky. In 1998, Ostgard transferred to Degussa AG (nowadays Evonik Industries) as a group leader, where he took over the global R&D group for the activated base metal catalysts and these responsibilities eventually were expanded to include precious metal powder catalysts.
He then worked 10 years in the area of technical business development for new catalyst technologies in North America, South America and Asia. Since 2015 Daniel has worked at Evonik Catalysts India Pvt. Ltd as the senior global applied technology manager for hydrogenation and isomerization catalysts used in the fats and oils industries.
Ostgard is a member of Catalysis Society of North America, American Chemical Society, Organic Reactions Catalysis Society, International Congress Catalysis, Philadelphia Catalysis Society, Sigma Xi and Phi Kappa Phi.
On January 11, 1988 Daniel Ostgard married Angela Zambo.