Advisory Board | Global CO2 Initiative

Rosina M. Bierbaum

Professor, University of Michigan

Rosina is Professor and Dean Emerita of Natural Resources and Environmental Policy, School of Natural Resources and Environment, University of Michigan and Professor, School of Public Health, University of Michigan.

Rosina is also Professor, School of Public Health, University of Maryland. Chair of the Scientific and Advisory Panel of the Global Environment Facility. Member, US President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology Policy. Board Member: American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Gordon & Berry Moore Foundation, Wildlife Conservation Society, Federation of American Scientists, Environmental and Energy Study Institute, Climate Reality Project, Morgan Stanley Institute for Sustainable Investing, and Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement. Member: National Academy of Sciences; American Philosophical Society, Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, American Association for the Advancement of Science, the Ecological Society of America. Former Acting Director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy. Former member: Congressional Office of Technology Assessment.

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Erin Burns

Executive Director of Policy at Carbon180

Erin is Executive Director, Carbon180, leading the organization in thinking big to scale equitable, just, and accountable carbon removal.

Erin previously worked in the US Senate where she handled energy, environment, labor and agricultural issues, including staffing for the Energy and Natural Resources Committee and the Public Lands Subcommittee.

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Bernard J. David

Chair, Advisory Board of the Global CO₂Initiative

Bernard is a Serial entrepreneur who has founded, co-founded, built, and sold businesses. Committed to a systems approach to sustainability based on science that harnesses market forces to solve large scale climate issues.

Bernard is Founder and Advisory Board Chair, Global CO2 Initiative. Chairman of the Board, Captura Corp. Strategic Advisory Board member, Joint Center for Artificial Photosynthesis. External Advisory Board, Graham Sustainability Institute. Senior Fellow, Wharton School Initiative on Global Environmental Leadership. Former Commissioner, Energy Transition Commission. Member emeritus: Directors Council, Scripps Institution of Oceanography. Former board member: H. John Heinz III Center for Science, Economics and the Environment; National Ecological Observatory Network; Stroud Water Research Center.

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Tom Delay

former Chief Executive, Carbon Trust

Tom was appointed as the first CEO Emeritus of Carbon Trust in 2001 where he grew the company to become a world leader in advising businesses, governments and the public sector on carbon emissions reduction and the development of low carbon technologies, markets and businesses.

Prior to retirement, Tom had extensive experience in the energy sector, with 16 years in commercial and operations roles as General Manager at Pizo Shell, consultant at McKinsey & Company, and Principal at A. T. Kearney.

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David Douglas

Vice President, Applied Invention

David is Senior Vice President, Applied Invention, focusing on the application of technology and sustainability principles to global problems and opportunities. Senior Fellow, Breakthrough Institute.

David is Former Chief Sustainability Officer and Senior Vice President of Cloud Computing, Sun Microsystems. Co-author of Citizen Engineer. Currently writing and conducting research on national energy policy and on the intersection of sustainability and innovation.

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Jae Edmonds

Chief Scientist, Battelle Fellow, Economist, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Joint Global Change Research Institute

Jae is a researcher at the Joint Global Change Research Institute, a collaboration between the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory and the University of Maryland.

Jae is Chief Scientist and Batelle Fellow, Joint Global Change Research Institute, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory and College Park Professor of Public Policy, University of Maryland where he pioneered integrated assessment modeling of climate change, and led the development of the Global Change Assessment Model. Active participant and author in major assessments of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Senior fellow, Center for Global Sustainability. Member of numerous panels, committees and advisory boards.

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Marcius Extavour

Senior Partner, Ode

Marcius combines his passion for communication and outreach with his background in engineering and physics to work on transformative innovation that can benefit humanity.

Marcius focuses on building sustainable solutions, products, and algorithms. Former Chief Climate Solutions Officer at TIMECO2 where he created the TIME Climate 100. Former Chief Scientist and Executive VP at XPRIZE Foundation where he built the energy, climate and carbon removal practice. Member, U.S. National Academies of Science Board on Energy & Environmental Systems. Board member, 1% for the Planet. Member: University of Ottawa's Institute on Governance; Carbontech Leadership Council of New York University's Carbon to Value Program; Neste's Advisory Council on Circular Economy.

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Julio Friedmann

Chief Scientist and Chief Carbon Wrangler at Carbon Direct

Julio is one of the most widely known and authoritative experts in the US on carbon removal (CO2 drawdown from the air and oceans), CO2 conversion and use (carbon-to-value), hydrogen, industrial decarbonization, and carbon capture and sequestration.

Julio is the Chief Scientist, Carbon Direct. Former Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary, Office of Fossil Energy, U.S. Department of Energy where he was responsible for the R&D program in advanced fossil energy systems, carbon capture and storage, CO2 utilization, and clean coal deployment. Former Chief Energy Technologist, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. CEO of Carbon Wrangler, LLC. Distinguished Associate, Energy Futures Initiative with expertise in large-scale carbon management, CO2 removal, hydrogen production and use, CO2 recycling, oil and gas production, and international clean energy engagements.

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Fernando Gomez

Head, Resource Systems and Resilience, and Member of the Executive Committee at WEF

Fernando leads the World Economic Forum team that advances initiatives in plastic pollution, the circular economy and societal resilience towards environmental risks.

Fernando is Head, Resource Systems and Resilience, and Member of the Executive Committee at WEF. He oversees the involvement of industry partners in the Forum's programs and activities - with direct responsibility for the materials industries. He has two decades of experience in structuring and managing partnerships for technical and regional development, and has performed in areas including technology management, innovation, new product development and corporate venturing. Before joining the Forum in 2010, Fernando was for eight years at AkzoNobel, working in the areas of technical development and venture relations.

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Christoph Gürtler

Head of Catalysis & Technology Incubation, Covestro

Christoph is Chair, Covestro Deutschland AG Managerial Employees' Committee and Former VP, Covestro Deutschland AG, product and process development, innovation department.

Christoph is Former Head of Global Industry Academia Cooperations, Covestro Group Innovation department. Former head, technology development and incubation, polyurethane innovation, Bayer AG. Member of numerous scientific advisory boards and organizations, including Dechema and the Nova Institute. Member of VAA Chemistry Managers Executive Board. Member of the board of the ULA United Leaders Association (ULA).

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Stephanie Hanford

Senior Manager, Ceres

Stephanie has focused her 20-year career in sustainability on business strategy, reporting/disclosure and stakeholder engagement, working extensively internationally.

Stephanie is Senior Manager, Ceres, where she manages the clean steel campaign to mobilize investors and policy makers to encourage steelmakers to invest in clean steel technology. Works with Ceres investor members to develop strategies to reduce steel asset risk and coordinates engagement with the banking industry and others. Stephanie is former: Founder and Owner, Connectivity Consulting; Senior Manager, Brazilian Business Council for Sustainable Development (Rio de Janeiro); Project Manager, World Business Council for Sustainable Development (Geneva); Office Manager, Center for International Environmental Law (Geneva). Fellow, Institute for Governance and Sustainable Development (Washington, DC); Board member Jocotoco Conversation Foundation. Stephanie is Senior Manager, Ceres, where she manages the clean steel campaign to mobilize investors and policy makers to encourage steelmakers to invest in clean steel technology. Works with Ceres investor members to develop strategies to reduce steel asset risk and coordinates engagement with the banking industry and others.

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Jennifer A. Haverkamp

Director, U-M Graham Sustainability Institute

Jennifer led the U-M's Graham Institute and holds appointments in the law school and public policy schools. Her extensive experience in international climate change law and policy stems from a long career in government and with NGO's.

Jennifer is Retired Director, Graham Sustainability Institute and Professor, Michigan Law, University of Michigan, with interests including international environmental law, climate change, international trade and sustainability, global environmental policy and negotiations, and international water diplomacy. Jennifer is the former visiting professor of practice and distinguished practitioner in residence at Cornell Law School, as well as executive in residence at the David R. Atkinson Center for a Sustainable Future, Cornell University. Former: Ambassador, special representative for environment and water resources, US Department of State, where she led US climate negotiators for the Montreal Protocol. Former Assistant US trade Representative for environment and natural resources, as a Special Assistant, US Environmental Protection Agency Office of Enforcement and Compliance, and as an attorney in the Environment and Natural Resources Division, US Justice Department. Serves on various boards, panels and committees including The College of Wooster, Board of Trustees.

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Christopher Hewitt

Innovation Network Manager for BASF.

Chris was responsible for engaging customers, colleagues, and external collaborators to find innovative solutions for customer needs at BASF. He is passionate about creating sustainable value through working as the interface between chemical technology and business initiatives.

Chris is the former Senior Manager, Public Funding, BASF, leading engagement with public funding agencies, and internal and external stakeholders in North America to support technology development and translation. Former positions at BASF include Innovation Network Manager, Science Relations Manager, NA. Former positions at Sigma Aldrich include: Director Marketing - Chemistry, Director, Business Development, and VP Marketing / R&D Alrich Chemical.

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John P. Holdren

Teresa & John Heinz Professor of Environmental Policy, Harvard University

John served as President Obama's Science Advisor, Co-Chair of the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology, and Director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy.

John is Research Professor, Kennedy School of Government and Co-Director, Science, Technology, and Public Policy Program, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard University. John is former Teresa and John Heinz Professor of Environmental Policy, Kennedy School and Professor of Environmental Science and Policy, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Harvard University. Affiliated Professor, John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Science, Harvard University. President Emeritus and Senior Advisor to the President, Woodwell Climate Research Center. Former Science Advisor to the US President, Barack Obama, and Director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy. Member of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences, the U.S. National Academy of Engineering, the American Philosophical Society, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Academy of Political and Social Science, and the Council on Foreign Relations, Royal Society of London, and the Indian National Academy of Engineering. Former President of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Other honors include: one of the first MacArthur Prize Fellowships, Volvo International Environment Prize, Tyler Prize for Environment, Heinz Prize for Public Policy, Gwangha Medal of the Republic of Korea, Moynihan Prize of the American Academy of Political and Social Sciences, Order of the Rising Sun, Arthur Bueche Award of the National Academy of Engineering and seven honorary doctorates.

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David A. King

FRS HonFREng, Emeritus Professor in Physical Chemistry, University of Cambridge

David is Emeritus Professor, Cambridge University, former Chief Scientific Advisor to the UK Government under Tony Blair and Gordon Brown. David served under David Cameron and Theresa May in the Foreign & Commonwealth Office as the UK's Climate Envoy.

David served as an Affiliate Partner at SYSTEMIQ Ltd, Senior advisor to the President of Rwanda. Foreign Fellow of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences. Granted knighthood and Officier of the Legion d'Honneur. 23 Honorary degrees from universities. Led the launch of Mission Innovation, a collaborative program between 22 countries to develop post-fossil-fuel era technologies. Recent work is directed toward alerting governments and institutions to the dangers of the escalating climate crisis and the urgent need for a committed program of climate repair.

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Louise Kjellerup Roper

CEO, Volans

Louise is responsible for Volans' mission, programmes, and commercial strategy, ensuring Volans has the biggest possible positive impact.

Louise is Chief Executive Officer, Volans, where she is responsible for Volans' mission, programs and strategy, and ensuring Volans has the largest positive impact possible, through what it does and with whom it works. Has worked at the frontier of innovation, launching, running, and advising cradle-to-cradle and circular economy brands across Europe. Mentor through Aspire. Chair of the University of Exeter Business School's Board of International Advisors. Lectures at Cranfield University's Centre for Design, Innovation and Sustainability. Advisory board member: Sustainable Finance Centre; UKRI Interdisciplinary Centre for Circular Chemical Economy; Good Growth Company.

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Michelle M. Krynock

Senior Life Cycle Analyst, Department of Energy’s National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL)

Michelle does life cycle analysis at NETL and works directly with decision makers to provide them with environmental information and help them understand their policy and technology area of interests in the context of life cycle thinking.

Michelle is Senior Life Cycle Analyst, National Energy Technology Laboratory, US Department of Energy where she manages Life Cycle Assessment projects in technology areas that include carbon conversion and carbon storage. Uses Life Cycle Assessment methodologies to evaluate energy-related issues, including the environmental impact of energy conversion, infrastructure construction, fuel extraction and transportation, and final energy product transport and delivery. Former lead for the Carnegie Mellon University chapter of Engineers Without Borders.

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Fred Mason

Caterpillar (retired)

Fred is Emeritus founding Managing Director of Caterpillar Luxembourg, S.a.r.L. and former Director of Product Source Planning for Caterpillar Inc.

Fred was Director, Strategy and Planning, Caterpillar Overseas, S.A., with responsibility for Europe, Africa, Middle East, and the Commonwealth of Independent States. Member, Board of Trustees, Juniata College and former Chair, Board of Trustees Business Affairs Committee and member, Executive Committee. Member Lindt N.A., Sensory Panel. Former: Board Treasurer, H. John Heinz III Center for Science, Economics and the Environment; board member Great Bay Stewards, Liaison Delegate, World Business Council for Sustainable Development.

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Laura R. Nereng

Program Director, Pride Technologies

Laura has several decades of experience, serving in various roles, including Program Director, Engineering, Product Development, Marketing, Sales and New Business Development.

Laura is Chief Executive Officer and Co-founder, KinectXions Materials, Inc., for which the mission is to decarbonize the materials industry. Former: Director, Business Development, 3M New Growth Ventures; Director, 3M New Growth Strategies; Sustainability and Business Development Leader, 3M Energy & Electronics Business Group; Program Manager, Clean Tech, 3M Industrial & Transportation Business Group; Business Development Manager, 3M Corporate Research; Business Development Manager & Strategic Planner, 3M Optical Systems Division; Design for Six Sigma Marketing Black Belt, 3M Optical Systems Division; Product Manager, 3M Touch Systems; Market and Product Development Manager, 3M Telecom Systems Division; Senior Account Representative, 3M Telecom Systems Division; Senior Market and Product Development Administrator, 3M Telecom Systems Division.

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Eric W. Orts

Guardsmark Professor, University of Pennsylvania, The Wharton School

Eric’s primary research and teaching interests are corporate governance, professional ethics, environmental management, securities regulation, democratic theory, constitutional law, theories of the firm, and business theory.

Eric is Professor of Legal Studies & Business Ethics, and Professor of Management, Wharton, University of Pennsylvania. Former: Faculty Director, Initiative for Global Environmental Leadership. Visiting appointments: Columbia Law School; Harvard University, INSEAD, NYU School of Law; University of Leuven, University of Michigan Law School; UCLA School of Law, Bren School of Environmental Science and Management; University of Sydney Law School and Tsinghua University. Former Associate Attorney, Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison. Former Chemical Bank Fellow in Corporate Social Responsibility. Founding board member, Alliance for Research in Corporate Sustainability. Consulting member, American Law Institute.

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David B. Sandalow

Inaugural Fellow, Center on Global Energy Policy; Senior Research Scholar; Co-Director, Energy and Environment Concentration, Columbia University

David founded and directs the Center on Global Energy Policy's U.S.-China Program.

David is an Inaugural Fellow, Center on Global Energy Policy, and Co-Director of the Energy and Environment Concentration, School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University, where he chairs the Innovation for Cool Earth Forum Innovation Roadmap Project leading development of roadmaps for sustainable data centers, artificial intelligence for climate change mitigation, low-carbon ammonia, biomass carbon removal and storage, industrial decarbonization, direct air capture and carbon dioxide utilization. Founded and directs the Center for Global Energy Policy US-China Program. Board member of the National Committee on U.S.-China Relations. Senior positions at the White House, State Department and US Department of Energy have included: Senior Director, National Security Council; Assistant Secretary of State for Oceans, Environment & Science; Under Secretary of Energy (Acting) and Assistant Secretary for Policy & International Affairs. Former Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution. Member: Zayed Sustainability Prize Selection Committee; Electric Drive Transport Association; and the Council on Foreign Relations. Director of Enagás, SA. Distinguished Fellow, Oxford Institute for Energy Studies. Distinguished Senior Fellow, Atlantic Council.

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Alastair Sanderson

Platform Leader for Carbon Rainbow at Unilever

Alastair is Emeritus Platform Leader for Carbon Rainbow at Unilever. Previously, Senior Development Manager, Laundry Liquids and Home Care, Unilever and Product Development Manager, Unilever Netherlands.

Alastair developed the "carbon rainbow framework" to describe a materials sourcing strategy to improve products' sustainability and drive net zero by de-fossilizing the raw material value chain. Integrated the provenance of carbon feedstocks within the Home Care Clean Future strategy and the wider Unilever Climate Transition Action Plan. Former: Technology Development Manager, Unilever; Chief Operating Officer, Chemical Business Association. Led Flue2Chem, a cross-industry collaboration to design and validate a UK value chain to convert industrial carbon emissions into sustainable materials for consumer products. Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry.

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Josh Schaidle

Director, Chemical Catalysis for Bioenergy (ChemCatBio) Consortium

Josh is Director of the Chemical Catalysis for Bioenergy (ChemCatBio) Consortium, National Laboratory of the Rockies and Chief of Staff, Bioenergy Science and Technology Directorate.

Josh is the National Laboratory of the Rockies Program Manager for the Office of Fossil Energy and Carbon Management working to build and empower diverse, multidisciplinary teams to accelerate technology development to address climate change. Former: Lead, Catalytic Carbon Transformation Platform. Mentor, Scholarship Selection Committee and Professional Contact, Greenhouse Scholars. Member, Food Bank of the Rockies.

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Simone H. Stewart

Senior Industrial Policy Specialist, Climate & Energy Policy, National Wildlife Federation

Simone focuses on carbon management strategies covering the intersections of emerging technologies and environmental justice across areas such as policy, industry, NGO, and public education, and collaboration with government agencies.

Simone is Senior Industrial Policy Specialist, Climate & Energy Policy, National Wildlife Federation with a portfolio focused on industrial decarbonization, including emerging technologies such as carbon capture, transport and storage, hydrogen, sustainable aviation fuels, and critical minerals supply chains. Prior research focused on investigating the fluid mechanics of fluxes over rough surfaces, with applications in large-scale direct air capture and clean energy architecture. Former: graduate assistant for the Blum Center on Poverty, Inequality, and Democracy where she led a variety of programming, created detailed information campaigns centered around justice and community enfranchisement, and helped develop a comprehensive People's Guide to the Green New Deal rooted in the tenants of environmental and economic justice.

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Gerald Stokes

Battelle (retired)

Gerald is a founding team member of the Global CO2Initiative. Associated with Stony Brook University since 2014, he was most recently the Chair of Technology and Society at SUNY Korea from 2019-21.

Gerald is an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Technology and Society of Stony Brook University. Current research interests include the national energy policies, novel approaches to the mitigation of carbon dioxide emissions, and stabilization of the global burden of atmospheric greenhouse gases. Former professor and chair of the Department of Technology and Society at State University of New York, Korea. Former Associate Lab Director, Brookhaven and Pacific Northwest Laboratories, where he managed two major programs: the Department of Energy’s Atmospheric Radiation Measurement Program, and the Bonneville Power Administration’s End Use Load and Conservation Assessment Program; Former President and CEO Battelle Japan. Founding Director of the Joint Global Change Research Institute. Member, Scientific Advisory Board of NOVIM; Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

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Scott Stone

President, Glencoe Strategies LLC

Scott is an environmental lawyer with expertise in climate change and clean technology law and policy issues. Scott is also the founder of Lookfar Conservation and the Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the National Park Trust.

Scott is Founder and President, Glencoe Strategies, a law firm with expertise in energy and environmental issues, representing clients in federal and state regulatory matters, advocates before Congress and state legislatures, and develops and executes policy and political strategies, engages with foreign governments and multilateral organizations, and advises on global regulatory trends. Founder, Lookfar Conservation, a nonprofit organization that advises charitable foundations and helps small, local conservation groups in Latin America and Sub-Saharan Africa with biodiversity conservation, ecological restoration, and regenerative agriculture projects. Board Chair, National Parks Trust. Former: Co-founder and Partner, S2C Pacific; Counsel, Hunton & Williams, LLP; Director, Global Environmental Initiatives, Sierra Nevada Corporation; Policy Analyst, Institute for Governance & Sustainable Development.

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Peter Styring

Professor, University of Sheffield

Peter is Professor of Chemical Engineering and Chemistry, Head of Department in Chemistry, University of Sheffield, with expertise in catalysis and functional materials, and continuous flow processing that allows reactions to be rapidly taken from discovery scale to production scale.

Peter is an expert in carbon capture and utilization with increasing expertise in applicable policy. Works with government through consultation on future strategies for carbon capture and utilization for the UK and Europe. Chair, CO2Chem Network, a global network of 900 academics, industry executives, and policy makers with interests in carbon capture and utilization giving members access to a vast database of knowledge and access to potential collaborators. Former Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council, Senior Media Fellow. Fellow: Institution of Chemical Engineers and Royal Society of Chemistry.

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Ellen D. Williams

Distinguished University Professor Emeritus, University of Maryland

Ellen’s professional interests are in clean energy innovation and mitigation of climate change. Ellen is Emerita Distinguished Professor, Department of Physics, and the Institute for Physical Science and Technology, University of Maryland.

Ellen is Founding Director, University of Maryland Materials Research Science and Engineering Center. Vice-Chair of JASON, an independent group of scientists offering advice to the US government on key science and technology issues. Worked extensively in providing technical advice to the US Departments of Energy and US Department of Defense including a study on the capability of the US government and the Comprehensive nuclear Test-Ban Organization to detect nuclear testing. Former: Director, University of Maryland, Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center; Director of the Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy, Department of Energy, created to nurture high risk high payoff research that has the potential to make a large impact in technology, jobs, energy and sustainability; Former: Senior Advisor US Department of Energy; Chief Scientist, Group Technology, BP. Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science; Member, Royal Society; Distinguished Alumna, California Institute of Technology; Member, National Academy of Science; Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences; Fellow, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Fellow, American Vacuum Society; Fellow, American Physical Society.

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