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Committee Member Biographical Information

EMILY A. CARTER (Chair) is the Gerhard R. Andlinger Professor in Energy and the Environment and a professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering and applied and computational mathematics at Princeton University. She is also a senior strategic advisor and the associate laboratory director for applied materials and sustainability sciences at the Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory. Until the end of 2021, Dr. Carter served as the executive vice chancellor and provost (EVCP) and the Distinguished Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). Dr. Carter earned a BS in chemistry from the University of California, Berkeley (graduating Phi Beta Kappa) and a PhD in chemistry from the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), followed by a brief postdoctorate at the University of Colorado Boulder, before spending 16 years on UCLA’s chemistry and biochemistry faculty. She moved to Princeton University in 2004, where she spent 15 years as a jointly appointed faculty in mechanical and aerospace engineering and applied and computational mathematics. From 2010 to 2016, she was Princeton’s founding director of the Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment and from 2016–2019 she was Princeton’s dean of engineering and applied science before returning to UCLA as its EVCP. Dr. Carter has pioneered the development and application of quantum mechanics–based simulation techniques to enable the discovery and design of molecules, materials, and processes for sustainable energy, fuels, and chemicals, supported by grants from the Department of Defense, the National Science Foundation (NSF), and DOE. She has received numerous honors, including election to the National Academy of Sciences, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the National Academy of Inventors, the National Academy of Engineering, the European Academy of Sciences, and as a Foreign Member of the Royal Society of London.

SHOTA ATSUMI is a professor in the Department of Chemistry at the University of California, Davis. He was a postdoctoral researcher with Dr. John W. Little at the University of Arizona and with Dr. James C. Liao at UCLA. Dr. Atsumi’s current research focuses on the use of synthetic biology and metabolic engineering approaches to engineer microorganisms to convert CO₂ to valuable chemicals. The primary research goals of his group are to develop a platform for valuable chemical production from carbon dioxide using photosynthetic microorganisms and to develop novel biosynthetic pathways to produce chemical compounds that microbes naturally produce in trace amounts or not at all. Dr. Atsumi received the Hellman Fellowship in 2021, the NSF CAREER award in 2014, and the Chancellor’s Fellowship in 2018. He received his PhD in biological chemistry in 2002, his MS in biological chemistry in 1998, and his BS in 1996, all from Kyoto University.

MAKINI BYRON is a director of Clean Energy at Linde, a leading industrial gas and engineering company. Ms. Byron has a diverse background in research and development (R&D) and business development within clean energy and innovation. In her current role, Ms. Byron focuses on supporting the company’s growth ambitions in hydrogen and carbon solutions through new clean energy business opportunities and strategic partnerships. Ms. Byron has managed or participated in several DOE-funded projects for the commercial engineering design and demonstration of post-combustion and oxy-combustion carbon capture technologies as well as several CO₂ utilization technologies. She has an MS in chemical engineering and a certificate in science, technology, and energy policy from Princeton University. Ms. Byron is a registered project management professional and a member of the Project Management Institute and the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE).

JINGGUANG CHEN is the Thayer Lindsley Professor of Chemical Engineering at Columbia University, with a joint appointment at Brookhaven National Laboratory. Dr. Chen’s research interests include the thermocatalytic and electrocatalytic conversion of carbon dioxide, utilizing both experimental and theoretical approaches. He is currently the president of the North American Catalysis Society and the director of the Synchrotron Catalysis Consortium. Dr. Chen received the George Olah Award from the American Chemical Society (ACS) and the R.H. Wilhelm Award from AIChE, and he has been elected to the National Academy of Engineering. He received his PhD from the University of Pittsburgh and carried out his Alexander von Humboldt postdoctoral research at KFA-Julich in Germany.

STEPHEN COMELLO is the senior vice president of strategic initiatives at the Energy Futures Initiative (EFI) Foundation and the co-managing director of its Energy Futures Finance Forum. Previously, he served as a faculty member at the Stanford Graduate School of Business for more than a decade, co-founding and co-leading the Rapid Decarbonization Initiative. With a 23-year career dedicated to scaling emerging energy and environmental technologies, Dr. Comello specializes in policy and business model innovations. His expertise spans technoeconomic analysis, policy and project finance, corporate strategy in energy transition, and open innovation. At Stanford, he held leadership roles in various research initiatives and industrial affiliate programs. He has authored numerous publications in energy policy, industrial organization, development economics, innovation management, and carbon accounting. Dr. Comello holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees in mechanical and industrial engineering from the University of Toronto and a PhD in civil and environmental engineering from Stanford University. Originally from Canada, he now resides in Washington, DC.

MAOHONG FAN is a School of Energy Resources professor in chemical and petroleum engineering at the University of Wyoming and an adjunct professor in environmental engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech). Dr. Fan has led and worked on many projects in chemical production, clean energy generation, and environmental protection. The projects have been supported by various domestic and international funding agencies such as NSF, DOE, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the U.S. Geological Survey, and the Department of Agriculture in the United States; the New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization in Japan; the United Nations Development Programme; and industrial companies such as Siemens and Caterpillar. Dr. Fan has helped various chemical, environmental, and energy companies overcome their technical challenges. He has published many refereed papers in chemical and environmental engineering, energy, and chemistry journals. He is one of the most highly cited researchers according to Web of Science. Dr. Fan’s recent NSF and DOE projects cover the areas of carbon capture, utilization, and storage (CCUS); catalyzed solar energy–driven biomass conversion; rare earth oxide extraction and reduction of rare earth oxides to rare earth metals; carbon fuel cells; and production of chemicals, materials, and fuels from fossil resources.

BENNY FREEMAN is the William J. (Bill) Murray Jr. Endowed Chair of Engineering in the McKetta Department of Chemical Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin. Dr. Freeman’s research is in polymer science and engineering and, more specifically, in mass transport of small molecules in solid polymers. His research group focuses on structure and property correlation development for desalination and gas separation membrane materials, new materials for hydrogen separation, natural gas purification, carbon capture, and new materials

for improving fouling resistance in liquid separation membranes. Dr. Freeman leads the Center for Materials for Water and Energy Systems, a DOE Energy Frontier Research Center, and he serves as challenge area leader for membranes in the National Alliance for Water Innovation, a 5-year, DOE-sponsored Energy–Water Desalination Hub to address critical technical barriers needed to radically reduce the cost and energy of water purification. He is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), AIChE, ACS, and the Polymeric Materials: Science and Engineering (PMSE) and Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research (IECR) Divisions of ACS. He has served as the chair of the PMSE Division of ACS; chair of the Gordon Research Conference on Membranes: Materials and Processes; president of the North American Membrane Society; chair of the Membranes Area of the Separations Division of AIChE; and chair of the Separations Division of AIChE. His research has served as the basis for several start-up companies, including Energy-X and NALA Systems. Dr. Freeman is a member of the National Academy of Engineering. He completed graduate training in chemical engineering at the University of California, Berkeley, earning a PhD in 1988. In 1988 and 1989, he was a postdoctoral fellow at the Ecole Supérieure de Physique et de Chimie Industrielles de la Ville de Paris, Laboratoire Physico-Chimie Structurale et Macromoléculaire, in Paris. Dr. Freeman was a member of the chemical engineering faculty at North Carolina State University from 1989–2002, and he has been a professor of chemical engineering at The University of Texas at Austin since 2002.

MATTHEW FRY joined the Great Plains Institute in August 2021 as the state and regional policy manager, supporting the Carbon Management program. Mr. Fry has more than 20 years of experience in natural resource management, regulation, and policy in both the public and private sectors. Mr. Fry served as a senior policy advisor to Wyoming Governor Matt Mead, where he focused on natural resource, energy, and CCUS policy. Additionally, he developed and managed the Wyoming Pipeline Corridor Initiative, a project that authorized a statewide network of pipeline corridors in Wyoming that aimed to establish corridors on public lands dedicated for future use of pipelines associated with CCUS, enhanced oil recovery, and delivery of associated petroleum products. Mr. Fry earned a BS in biology and chemistry from Davis & Elkins College and a master’s in natural resource law from the University of Denver Sturm College of Law.

SARAH M. JORDAAN is an associate professor of industrial ecology and life cycle assessment (LCA) at the Department of Civil Engineering and the Trottier Institute for Sustainability in Engineering and Design at McGill University. Prior to joining McGill, Dr. Jordaan held positions at Johns Hopkins University, Harvard University, the Electric Power Research Institute, Shell, the University of Calgary, and the Laboratory on International Law and Regulation at the University of California, San Diego. Her research focuses on improving LCA, techno-economic analysis, and technology innovation in support of a sustainable, low-carbon energy future. Her articles examine CCUS technologies in early R&D stages and also large-scale deployment in Paris-compliant scenarios and have been published in Nature Climate Change, Nature Catalysis, and Energy & Environmental Science. Dr. Jordaan won the 2022 Educational Leadership Award from the American Center for Life Cycle Assessment, where she has been a member since 2008. She is co-chairing a subgroup on a task commissioned by the Secretary of Energy for the National Petroleum Council to reduce emissions across natural gas supply chains in line with the Global Methane Pledge. Her postdoctoral fellowship at Harvard University was focused on energy technology innovation with the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at the Kennedy School of Government and on climate impacts of energy with the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences. Dr. Jordaan earned her doctorate in environmental design from the University of Calgary in 2010 and her BS in physics with a computer science minor from Memorial University in 2003.

HAROUN MAHGEREFTEH is a professor of chemical engineering at University College London and a fellow of the Institution of Chemical Engineers. Dr. Mahgerefteh’s research spans all aspects of CCUS, particularly CO₂ pipeline safety and operational issues. He is the coordinator of several national and multinational collaborative projects, including the European Commission FP7 and H2020 projects, CO2PipeHaz, CO2QUEST, and C4U. Project highlights include the development of best-practice guidelines for injection of CO₂ into highly depleted gas fields and the construction of the world’s longest fully instrumented CO₂ pipeline rupture test facility, producing

first-of-its-kind fundamentally important field data for the development and validation of source term and dispersion models for the accurate determination of minimum safety distances. He is also a key partner in the three Horizon Europe projects, CaLBy2030, ENCASE, and EMPHATICAL, working on technology readiness level 7 development of calcium looping capture technologies for the iron, steel, and cement industries; e-methanol production using CO₂; and renewable hydrogen and multi-modal transport of CO₂. Dr. Mahgerefteh is one of the two lead authors of the Zero Emission Platform report titled A Trans-European CO₂Transportation Infrastructure for CCUS: Opportunities & Challenges. The report is aimed at facilitating the development of a pipeline and shipping infrastructure for transporting several Mt/yr of CO₂ captured from major regional industrial emitters for permanent offshore geological storage—considered a key enabler for meeting the net-zero emission target by 2030. The author of more than 190 publications, Dr. Mahgerefteh’s professional engagements include membership on the UK Carbon Capture and Storage Research Council. He is the recipient of several prizes, including the Institution of Chemical Engineers’ Global Process Safety award for his CO2QUEST project.

AH-HYUNG (ALISSA) PARK is the Ronald and Valerie Sugar Dean of the UCLA Samueli School of Engineering. Previously, Dr. Park was the Lenfest Earth Institute Professor of Climate Change in the Departments of Earth and Environmental Engineering and Chemical Engineering at Columbia University. She was also the director of the Lenfest Center for Sustainable Energy. Her research focuses on sustainable energy and materials conversion pathways with an emphasis on integrated CCUS technologies addressing climate change. Dr. Park’s group is also working on direct air capture of CO₂ and negative emission technologies, including bioenergy with carbon capture and storage and sustainable construction materials with low carbon intensity. Dr. Park has received a number of professional awards and honors including the Shell Thomas Baron Award in Fluid-Particle Systems and PSRI Lectureship Award from AIChE PTF, the U.S. C3E Research Award, PSRI Lectureship Award at AIChE, ACS Energy and Fuels Division—Mid-Career and Emerging Researcher Award, ACS WCC Rising Star Award, and NSF CAREER Award. Dr. Park has also led global and national discussions on CCUS, including the Mission Innovation Workshop on CCUS in 2017 and the National Petroleum Council CCUS Report in 2019. Dr. Park received her PhD in chemical engineering from The Ohio State University and her BS from The University of British Columbia. She is an elected fellow of AIChE, ACS, the Royal Society of Chemistry, and AAAS.

JOSEPH B. POWELL is a fellow and the former director of AIChE and served as Shell’s first chief scientist in chemical engineering from 2006 until retiring at the end of 2020, culminating a 36-year industry career in which he led R&D programs in new chemical processes, biofuels, and enhanced oil recovery and advised on R&D for the energy transition to a net-zero carbon economy. Dr. Powell is the co-inventor on more than 125 patent applications (60 granted); has received AIChE/ACS/R&D Magazine awards for Innovation, Service, and Practice; and is the co-author of Sustainable Development in the Process Industries: Cases and Impact (2010). He chaired the DOE Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Technical Advisory Committee and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering (2021) after serving two terms on the National Academies’ Board on Chemical Sciences and Technology. Other roles include guest editor for Catalysis Today Natural Gas Utilization, editorial board for Annual Review of Chemical and Biological Engineering, and crosscutting technologies area lead and author for Mission Innovation Carbon Capture Utilization and Storage (2017). Dr. Powell currently advises on energy and chemicals and process development (ChemePD, LLC). He received a PhD from the University of Wisconsin–Madison (1984) and a BS from the University of Virginia (1978), both in chemical engineering.

CLAUDIA A. RAMÍREZ RAMÍREZ is a professor of low-carbon systems and technologies at Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands. Her research focuses on the evaluation of novel low-carbon technologies and the design of methodologies and tools to assess their potential contribution to sustainable industrial systems. Dr. Ramírez currently coordinates the research line on system integration and fair governance of the Dutch project RELEASE, aiming to develop reversible large-scale energy storage based on electrochemical conversion of CO₂ to molecules. In 2018, she was awarded one of the largest scientific grants for individuals in the Netherlands to investigate the system impacts of using alternative raw materials such as CO₂, biomass, and waste in petrochemical industrial clusters. In the past 10 years, Dr. Ramírez co-coordinated the European project

“Environmental Due Diligence of Novel CO₂ Capture and Utilization Technologies (EDDICCUT)”; led the research line Technoeconomic and Environmental Analysis of the Dutch R&D program “Catalysis for Sustainable Chemicals from Biomass (CATCHBIO)”; and coordinated the program line Transport and Chain Integration of the Dutch R&D program for CO₂ capture, “Transport and Storage (CATO).” Dr. Ramírez holds a bachelor’s degree in chemical engineering, a master’s in human ecology, and a PhD in industrial energy efficiency. She has authored or co-authored more than 115 publications and is the editor-in-chief of the International Journal of Greenhouse Gas Control.

VOLKER SICK is the DTE Energy Professor of Advanced Energy Research, the faculty director at the Center for Entrepreneurship, and an Arthur F. Thurnau Professor at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Dr. Sick leads the Global CO₂ Initiative at the University of Michigan, which aims to reduce atmospheric CO₂ levels by transforming CO₂ into commercially successful products using technology assessment, technology development, and commercialization. His research focuses on accelerating deployments of CO₂-utilization technologies that will innovate existing infrastructure and manufacturing processes, thereby finding sustainable solutions and continued access to required carbon-based products to help address the climate crisis. Dr. Sick is the author of numerous publications in both peer-reviewed and popular periodicals. His most recent awards and honors include the Royal Society of Chemistry Spiers Memorial Lecture Award (2021), DTE Energy Professor of Advanced Energy Research (2019), and the President’s Award for Distinguished Service in International Education (2018). He is a fellow of SAE International (2007) and the Combustion Institute (2018). Dr. Sick received his doctorate in chemistry and habilitation in physical chemistry from the University of Heidelberg, Germany. He joined the University of Michigan as a professor of mechanical engineering in 1997.

SIMONE H. STEWART currently works as the senior industrial policy specialist on the Climate and Energy Policy team at the National Wildlife Federation, with a portfolio focused on CCUS; carbon dioxide removal technologies; as well as other strategies to aid in a just green transition for difficult to decarbonize sectors such as energy and industry. Dr. Stewart’s work covers the intersections of emerging technologies and environmental justice across areas such as policy, industry, nongovernmental organizations, and public education, and collaboration with government agencies. Dr. Stewart joined the National Wildlife Federation in 2021 after receiving her PhD in mechanical engineering from the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB), where she was an NSF Graduate Research Fellow. At UCSB, her research focused on investigating the fluid mechanics of fluxes over rough surfaces, with applications in large-scale direct air carbon capture and clean energy architecture. During that time, Dr. Stewart also worked as the graduate assistant for the UCSB 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 tenets of environmental and economic justice. Prior to graduate school, she received dual bachelor’s degrees in physics and Spanish language, literature, and history from William Jewell College.

JASON PATRICK TREMBLY is the Russ Professor of Mechanical Engineering and a graduate faculty member in the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at Ohio University. He is also the director of Ohio University’s Institute for Sustainable Energy and the Environment. Prior to joining Ohio University as an assistant professor, Dr. Trembly was a leading young researcher at internationally recognized energy research centers. From 2007 to 2011, he was a research chemical engineer and team leader for syngas and CO₂ conversion at RTI International’s Energy Technology Division. There, he was responsible for ideation and development of processes and catalysts for conversion of syngas and CO₂ to chemicals and fuels. He is also a former ORISE Fellow at DOE’s National Energy Technology Laboratory, where he completed his graduate research focused on solid oxide fuel cell development. Dr. Trembly’s research group utilizes process simulation with materials R&D to develop intensified process designs to address energy and environmental issues. His main research interests include solid oxide fuel cells and electrolyzers, electrochemical capture of nutrients from waste streams, produced water remediation, and sustainable building materials. He received his PhD in chemical engineering from Ohio University in 2007.

JENNY Y. YANG is a professor of chemistry at the University of California, Irvine (UCI) and a joint appointee at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL). Dr. Yang worked as a senior scientist at PNNL and at the Joint Center for Artificial Photosynthesis at Caltech prior to starting her faculty position. She has been working in the area of CO₂ capture and/or utilization for more than 10 years, with a focus on electrochemical methods. Dr. Yang is on the Executive Advisory Board of the Solutions That Scale Institute at UCI and is the director of the DOE-funded Energy Frontier Research Center Closing the Carbon Cycle. She has received the Chancellor’s Fellowship at UCI, the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers, a Sloan Foundation Fellowship, the Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award, and an Inorganic Chemistry Lectureship. Dr. Yang received her PhD in chemistry from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and her BS from the University of California, Berkeley. She is an elected fellow of AAAS.

JOSHUA S. YUAN joined the faculty at Washington University in St. Louis in 2022 and serves as the chair of DOE, Environmental, and Chemical Engineering. Previously, Dr. Yuan was a faculty member at Texas A&M University since 2008 and was appointed the chair for Synthetic Biology and Renewable Products in 2018. He was a Sungrant Fellow at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, and the National Renewable Energy Laboratory before joining Texas A&M. He has served in various leadership and management positions at Texas A&M University, the University of Tennessee, and the University of California, San Francisco, from 2001. Dr. Yuan also worked at BASF from 2000 to 2001. He has been awarded three U.S. patents and has two pending. He has written more than 100 peer-reviewed journal articles, published in Nature Communications, Green Chemistry, Chem, Advanced Sciences, ChemSusChem, and the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, among others. He has won numerous awards and honors, including the Regional Solid Waste Planning Award and the Environmental Educator Award in 2018; the Excellence in Innovation Award from the Texas A&M University System in 2017; and the Gamma Sigma Delta Outstanding Graduate Student Award in 2007. Dr. Yuan earned his PhD from the University of Tennessee in 2007.