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Committee Member Biographies

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 for sustainability science at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory. Until the end of 2021, Carter served as the executive vice chancellor and provost (EVCP) and distinguished professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). Carter earned a B.S. in chemistry from the University of California, Berkeley (graduating Phi Beta Kappa), and a Ph.D. in chemistry from the California Institute of Technology, followed by a brief postdoctoral fellowship 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 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 to 2019, she was Princeton’s dean of engineering and applied science before returning to co-lead UCLA as its EVCP. Carter develops and applies quantum mechanical simulation techniques to enable the discovery and design of molecules and materials for sustainable energy, fuels, and chemicals, supported by grants from the U.S. Department of Defense and DOE. She has received numerous honors, including election to the National Academy of Sciences, the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, the National Academy of Inventors, and the National Academy of Engineering.

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 the University of California, Los Angeles. His 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. He received the Hellman Fellowship in 2021, a National Science Foundation CAREER award in 2014, and the Chancellor’s Fellowship in 2018. Atsumi received his Ph.D. in biological chemistry in 2002, his M.S. in biological chemistry in 1998, and his B.S. in 1996, all from Kyoto University.

MAKINI BYRON is the director of External Technologies at Linde, a leading industrial gas and engineering company. In her current role, Byron identifies technologies at startups, universities, and research institutes that can

benefit her company and gains access through partnerships, collaborations, or investments. She has over 12 years of experience within the energy and chemicals sectors, with a focus on emerging technologies for decarbonization. Byron has managed or participated in several U.S. Department of Energy–funded projects for the commercial engineering design and demonstration of post-combustion and oxy-combustion carbon capture technologies. Her technology development experience includes several CO₂ utilization technologies, from biological conversion of CO₂ to valuable end products, mineralization of CO₂ to cementitious material, and the application of supercritical CO₂ for lubrication and cooling. She has an M.S. in chemical engineering and a certificate in science, technology, and energy policy from Princeton University. Byron is a registered project management professional and a member of the Project Management Institute and the American Institute of Chemical Engineers.

STEPHEN COMELLO is the senior vice president of Strategic Initiatives at the Energy Futures Initiative Foundation and the deputy director of its Energy Futures Finance Forum. He is also a senior research fellow (nonresident) at the Steyer-Taylor Center for Energy Policy and Finance at Stanford University. Previously, he spent close to a decade as the research director of the Energy Business Innovations focus area and as a lecturer in management at the Stanford Graduate School of Business. Through the lenses of techno-economics, public policy, project finance, and business model innovation, his work examines the scale-up opportunities for low-carbon energy and environmental solutions. Comello has been a lead author on various academic publications and government reports exploring topics such as carbon capture and utilization in the industrial sector; at-scale deployment of carbon capture, use, and storage in the United States; policy for carbon capture in California; the market and policy prospects for clean hydrogen industrial hubs in the United States; financial regulation and clean energy capital flows; and corporate decarbonization strategies. He holds a Ph.D. in civil and environmental engineering from Stanford University, and an M.S. and a B.S. in mechanical and industrial engineering from the University of Toronto.

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. He 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 the National Science Foundation (NSF), the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the U.S. Geological Survey, and the U.S. 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. Fan has helped various chemical, environmental, and energy companies overcome their technical challenges. He has published many refereed papers in different chemical and environmental engineering, energy, and chemistry journals. He is one of the highly cited researchers according to Web of Science. His recent NSF and DOE projects cover the areas of carbon capture, utilization, and storage; catalyzed solar-energy-driven biomass conversion; rare-Earth oxide extraction; reduction of rare-Earth oxides to rare-Earth metals; carbon fuel cells; and the production of chemicals, materials, and fuels from fossil resources.

MATTHEW FRY joined the Great Plains Institute in August 2021 as the state and regional policy manager, supporting the Carbon Management program. Fry has over 20 years of experience in natural resource management, regulation, and policy in both the public and private sectors. He served as a senior policy advisor to Wyoming Governor Matt Mead, where he focused on natural resource, energy, and carbon capture, utilization, and storage (CCUS) policy. Additionally, he developed and managed the Wyoming Pipeline Corridor Initiative, which is 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. Fry earned a B.S. in biology and chemistry from Davis & Elkins College, and a master’s degree in natural resource law from the University of Denver Sturm College of Law.

HAROUN MAHGEREFTEH is a professor of chemical engineering at the University College London and a fellow of the Institution of Chemical Engineers. His research spans all aspects of carbon capture, utilization, and

storage (CCUS), particularly CO₂ pipeline safety and operational issues. In CCUS, he is the coordinator of several national and multinational collaborative projects, including the European Commission FP7 and H2020 projects, CO₂PipeHaz, CO₂QUEST, and C4U (total funding $32 million). 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 located in Dalian, China. He is one of the two lead authors of the Zero Emission Platform report titled “A Trans-European CO₂ Transportation Infrastructure for CCUS: Opportunities & Challenges.” The report is aimed at facilitating the development of a pipeline and ship infrastructure for transporting several million tonnes CO₂ per year captured from major regional industrial emitters for permanent offshore geological storage; considered as a key enabler for meeting net-zero-emissions target by 2030. His PipeTech computer program is routinely used by several major international corporations and legislative organizations for safety analysis of thousands of kilometers of pressurized pipelines across the globe.

EMANUELE MASSETTI is a technical assistance advisor at the Climate Unit of the Fiscal Affairs Department of the International Monetary Fund and an associate professor in the School of Public Policy of the Georgia Institute of Technology (on leave until December 2022), where he leads the Laboratory for Integrated Economics Engineering Environment Assessment and Policy. Previously he was a postdoctoral fellow at the Yale School of the Environment and a senior researcher at the Euro-Mediterranean Center on Climate Change. He contributed as the lead author to the Fifth Assessment Report of Working Group III of the International Panel on Climate Change. His research is on the economics of climate change, both mitigation and adaptation. He is the co-author of the Integrated Assessment Model WITCH and has authored or co-authored over 30 publications on climate change mitigation, adaptation, and impacts published in international peer-reviewed journals, including Review of Environmental Economics & Policy, Energy Economics, The Energy Journal, Environmental and Resource Economics, and Climatic Change. He holds a Ph.D. in economics from the Catholic University of Milan, Italy.

AH-HYUNG (ALISSA) PARK is the Lenfest Earth Institute Professor of Climate Change in the Departments of Earth and Environmental Engineering and Chemical Engineering at Columbia University. She is also the director of the Lenfest Center for Sustainable Energy. Her research focuses on sustainable energy and materials conversion pathways with emphasis on integrated carbon capture, utilization, and storage (CCUS) technologies addressing climate change. 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. Park has received a number of professional awards and honors including the U.S. C3E Research Award (2018), the PSRI Lectureship Award at the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) (2018), the American Chemical Society (ACS) Energy and Fuels Division Emerging Researcher Award (2018), the ACS Women Chemist Committee Rising Star Award (2017), and the National Science Foundation CAREER Award (2009). Park has also led a number of global and national discussions on CCUS, including the Mission Innovation Workshop on CCUS in 2017 and the National Petroleum Council CCUS Report in 2019. She is an elected fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, AIChE, ACS, and the Royal Society of Chemistry.

JOSEPH B. POWELL is a fellow and former director of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) and served as Shell’s first chief scientist–chemical engineering from 2006 until retiring at the end of 2020, culminating a 36-year industry career where he led research and development (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. Powell is the co-inventor on over 125 patent applications (60 granted), has received AIChE, American Chemical Society, and 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 U.S. Department of Energy’s 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 of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine’s Board on Chemical Sciences and Technology. Other roles include guest editor of Catalysis Today on natural gas utilization, editorial board for Annual Review of Chemical and Biological Engineering, and cross-cutting technologies area

lead and author for Mission Innovation Carbon Capture Utilization and Storage (2017). He currently advises in energy and chemicals and process development (ChemePD LLC). He received a Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin–Madison (1984) and a B.S. from the University of Virginia (1978), both in chemical engineering.

ANDREA RAMÍREZ RAMÍREZ is a professor of low carbon systems and technologies at the 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. 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 into 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, Ramírez co-coordinated the European project Environmental Due Diligence of Novel CO₂ Capture and Utilization Technologies, led the research line Techno-economic and Environmental Analysis of the Dutch R&D program Catalysis for Sustainable Chemicals from Biomass, and coordinated the program line Transport and Chain Integration of the Dutch R&D program for CO₂ Capture, Transport, and Storage. Ramírez holds a bachelor’s degree in chemical engineering, a master’s degree in human ecology, and a Ph.D. in industrial energy efficiency. She has authored or co-authored over 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 and an Arthur F. Thurnau Professor at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. He leads the Global CO₂ Initiative at the University of Michigan that 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 decarbonization solutions and continued access to required carbon-based products to help address the climate crisis. 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), the 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 a fellow of the Combustion Institute (2018). He 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.