The MIT Energy Club is composed of current MIT students/post doctoral fellows/faculty/staff, alumni, and various affiliates with a broad range of interests and experience.
If you are looking to contact members of the MIT Energy Club regarding job postings or other collaborative efforts, please contact the appropriate executive committee member.
MIT students, postdocs, faculty, and staff :: MIT Alumni :: MIT Affiliates| Member | Status | Areas of Interest | Experience/Expertise |
| Matt Abel | PhD Candidate, Chemical Engineering | Reservoir simulation, LNG, field development planning | Three years as reservoir engineer and portfolio manager for Royal Dutch Shell working primarily in the Gulf of Mexico on both shelf and deep water fields. |
| Kristine Acevedo | Sloan Admin Asst | Renewable energy | Part of WGR, Working Group on Recycling. |
| Anna Agarwal | PhD Candidate, Civil and Environmental Engineering | Green buildings | |
| Abdulaziz Al-Falih | Course 10 Undergrad Sophomore | Clean combustion, efficient engines, carbon capture | |
| Brentan Alexander | Pursuing master of science, mechanical engineering, spring 2008 | Interest in coal gasification, sequestration technologies for CO2, clean coal | Experience with analyzing coal plants |
| Ezequiel Alvarez-Saavedra | PhD candidate, Biology | Renewable energy. Bio-solar | |
| Laura Anderson | MIT Sloan MBA, 2008 | Oil, gas, coal extraction | Natural resource project management experience, but for forestry |
| Morgan Andreae | MIT PhD Student, Sloan Auto Lab | Renewable energy, distributed generation, transportation | Performance and fuel economy engineer at Ford Motor Company, worked on hybrid electric SUV (Escape); PhD thesis work focuses on new combustion process for internal combustion engines. |
| Nelly Andrieu | M.Eng. in Logistics | Wind energy, Impact of subsidy policies, Distribution network | Understanding of the subvention systems aiming to promote green energies in Spain. |
| Blandine Antoine | 1rst year PhD at ESD (engineering systems division) | Agro-energies (biofuels, biomass) and land-use, Energy and Development, Nuclear Energy | Energy related experience: 7-month Energy World Tour (see www.promethee-energie.org); interned at the French Nuclear Safety Authority (topic: radioactive waste management); designed safety devices for nuclear power plants (GE). |
| Waqar Ali | MIT Sloan MBA Student | Energy for developing countries. Want to focus on investment or operations side of energy ventures. | Worked six years as consultant for Price Waterhouse Cooper. Focused on process improvement and due diligence in the financial services and energy companies. |
| Jose Antonio Almazan | M.S. System Design and Management; Product Development Engineer | Renewable energy, Energy in the Automotive Sector. | Ford Motor Company |
| Hussain Al-Mohsen | MIT PhD Student, ME | Carbon sequesteration, energy policy and economics | Gas turbine engineer and mechanical engineer for the Saudi Arabian Oil Company for 3+ years. |
| Desiree Amadeo | Pursuing Bachelor's Degree in Chemical Engineering | Renewable Energy, Green Buildings, Energy Conservation (product design and development) | Member of Biodiesel@MIT, led Merrimack Biodiesel Crew for 2 years, participant in National Biodiesel Conference. |
| Pedro Anaya | MIT Sloan MBA Class of 2009 | Renewable energy (windpower, solar, etc) and power markets dynamics | End of Engineering career project on power market dynamics; Worked for a Spanish Power company (Iberdrola) for 6 months in the R&D Department; Several Energy projects while working as a consultant in McKinsey: one to improve the efficiency of coal-fired power plants, and another to develop a renewable energy strategy. |
| John Angelos | Ph.D. Candidate Chemical Engineering & MBA Candidate Sloan School of Management | Energy issues related to transportation, Efficiency improvements, Nuclear power, Energy economics | Ph.D. research focuses on homogenous-charge, compression-ignition (HCCI) combustion for internal combustion engines. |
| Anjuli Appapillai | MIT PhD student, mechanical engineering | renewable energy, photovoltaics, energy storage | completed Master's on lithium battery electrode materials in 2006, currently studying PV cells for PhD. |
| Lars Appelquist | MS Student at UNEP Risoe Centre, University of Cophenhagen, MIT Visiting Student | Climate science and policy, enegy policy, carbon capture and sequestration | Writing masters thesis in cooperation with UNEP's enegy programme. Took MIT's Apps. of Tech. in Energy and Environment course. Experience in international environmental policy from being an Associate Youth Advisor for UNEP. |
| Alexandre Aquien | RA with Kazimi/Moniz at CANES | Nuclear power, particularly nuclear fuel cycle | |
| Nathan Ashcraft | PhD Candidate, Chemical Engineering | Fuel Cells, Solar Cells, Enhanced Oil Recovery, Carbon Capture & Sequestration | PhD thesis research is on the development & testing of new membrane materials for hydrogen & methanol fuel cells; took Energy Ventures (15.396) Fall '07 |
| Bill Aulet | Senior lecturer at MIT Sloan School of Management and Entrepreneur in Residence at MIT Entrepreneurship Center, Sloan Fellow 1994 | Innovation and entrepreneurship in energy | Serial entrepreneur, study and teach innovation and entrepreneurship, conceived and teach new energy ventures class at MIT fall 2007, consulted for large energy companies on innovation |
| Ghassan Awwad | MIT Leaders for Manufacturing. MBA and MS in Civil & Environmental Engineering | Alternative energy, renewable energy, climate change | No prior experience, currently taking a graduate class in Applications of Technology in Energy and the Environment. |
| Abisoye Babajide | MIT Sloan MBA Student, Formerly Shell Production Engineer | Oil exploration and production, looking to learn more about down stream business (refining). | Shell Exploration and Production Company: 4 years in the exploration and prodcution Industry, 1.5 years as chemical engineer, 1 year as well completion engineer, 1.5 years production engineer |
| Yu Albert Bai | Ph.D candidate, Course 3 | Photovoltaics, Thermoelectric, Fuel cells. | Thermoelectric project under MIT Generator program. |
| Anurag Bajpayee | S.M. Mechanical Engineering (Expected graduation: June 08) | Solar Thermoelectrics, Photovoltaic Solar Cells, Fuel Cells for Remote and Space Constrained Applications | Worked on “PEM Fuel Cells for Space Constrained Applications” at the Thermal Management and Energy Conversion Lab at the University of Missouri-Columbia, Currently helping with a project on solar-thermoelectric power generation |
| Tavish Baker | Online Marketing Manager - MIT Professional Education Programs (PEP) | Energy in general | None |
| Patricia Sulick Bamber | MIT Sloan MBA 2008 | Green Building, Energy conservation | None |
| Anup Bandivadekar | MIT PhD Student, Engineering Systems | Transportation, oil and natural gas, carbon sequestration, policies for climate change mitigation, clean energy for rural development. | Publication: Policy options to reduce fuel consumption of U.S. light duty vehicles. Current research: Before a transition to a hydrogen economy: economic, technical, environmental, and societal factors |
| Sara Barnowski | MIT Undergraduate Student, Civil & Environmental Engineering | Alternative energy | Currently on the Biodiesel@MIT Team. |
| Jorge Barrera | MIT ASP Fellow, 06-07' / MIT Alum, Mechanical Engineering BS '99 / Currently Transportation Specialist, I2 Technologies | Solar and micro generation | Hybrid vehicle systems, solar power, AC/DC generation/conversion |
| Brian Baum | Materials Science and Engineering (Undergraduate) | Nuclear energy, renewable, increased efficiency through materials | Looking for UROP |
| Tim Beaulieu | Industrial Hygiene Technologist, MIT EHS | Human powered energy sources; Want to see fitness centers put electricity back into grid | EHS Office related energy initiatives, some bicycle modification experience. |
| Gregg Beckham | MIT PhD Student, chemical engineering | General interest in sustainable energy | Industrial experience with utility optimization in refineries and chemical manufacturing plants. |
| Jonathan Behr | MIT PhD Student, biological Engineering | Biomass fuels | None |
| Brian Belmont | MIT PhD student, Biological Engineering | Renewables, biofuels | Member of Stanford University Solar Car Project (2002-2005) |
| Raphael Berger | MIT MS Student in nuclear science and Eng/TPP | Nuclear power, energy markets, finance and economics | Research on emissions trading programs in the U.S. Research on investments in nuclear power generation. |
| Peter Bermel | MIT Ph.D. 2007, Physics; MIT Postdoc, Physics and Co-founder, Star-Solar | Solar Energy | I'm a co-founder of StarSolar, which aspires to improve the efficiencies of thin-film silicon solar cells. My background is in the theory and simulation of solar cell light trapping and device performance. We're currently starting an experimental collaboration to fabricate a prototype device. |
| Gian-Paolo Beretta | Visiting Professor (Mechanical Engineering Department); MIT, PhD 1981, Mechanical Engineering; Full Professor of Thermal Sciences, Universitŕ di Brescia, Italy | Thermodynamics. Foundations and Applications. General/Global Energy Scenarios/Perspectives | E.P. Gyftopoulos and G.P. Beretta, Thermodynamics. Foundations and Applications, Dover, 2005; G.P. Beretta, World Energy Consumption and Resources: an Outlook for the Rest of the Century, International Journal of Environmental Technology and Management, Vol. 7, 99-112 (2007). |
| Irene Berry | MIT Masters Student, ME/TPP, Sloan Auto Lab | transportation energy use, advanced technology vehicles | Controls Team leader of Hybrid Electric Vehicle Team at Virginia Tech; internships with Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Washington Internships for Students of Engineering, and the HEV controls group of Ford Motor Company |
| Vincent Berube | MIT PhD Student, Physics | Renewable sources of energy (esp. solar). Hydrogen economy for auto industry. | Worked for a year on intertial confinement in the plasma and fusion center at MIT. Currently study new storage materials for hydrogen using first principles. Effect of size and geometry on storage capacity and heat transfer. Study of potential substitutes to hydrogen as energy carriers. |
| Dan Berwick | MIT Sloan MBA '09, Harvard KSG '10 | Wind, efficiency, storage, energy and environmental public policy. | I came to MIT from the Texas House of Representatives, where I advised my rep on energy and environmental policy, focusing on the Texas Renewable Portfolio Standard, enhanced oil recovery as a tool for carbon capture and sequestration, and energy efficiency. |
| Vatsal Bhardwaj | MIT Sloan MBA Student '08 | Low cost alternative energy technologies in emerging countries | |
| Ishan Bhaumik | MBA Sloan Class of '08 | Renewable Generation, Distributed Generation, Energy Storage, energy in emerging markets | 3+ yrs experience in I-banking working on California utility/infrastructure finance, interned in IT firm and researched Energy management systems,. Currently working with Materials Science & Engineering team on new battery technologies for renewable energy applications. |
| Sim Blaustein | Sloan MBA Student, 2008 | Alternative energy broadly, biofuels specifically | No prior experience in energy, but lots of startup and VC experience. Looking for interesting $1K and $100K projects. |
| Olaf Bleck | MIT Alum, MIT Research Staff, Media Lab | Solar/wind and EV technology | Former solar-electric car builder and racer |
| Ryan Boas | PhD candidate, MIT Engineering Systems Division | Solar energy | No direct experience in the solar industry. Six+ years experience developing semiconductor processing equipment at Applied Materials. |
| Kristian Bodek | MIT Masters Student, ME/TPP, Sloan Auto Lab | Future transportation technologies and fuels, enegy infrastructure development in emerging economies | Industrial experience: Worked in indusrial ecology research for a boutique brand strategy and design firm specializing in environmentally friendly projects; Undergrad project looking at Kyoto Protocol's Clean Development Mechanism |
| Steven Boles | MIT PhD Student, Mat. Sci. | Solid-state lighting, photovoltaics | Several years of industry experience in solid-state lighting R&D. |
| Biswajit Bose | Ph.D. student, EECS | Energy conservation | Current projects: Oil exploration (research project with Shell), energy conservation (on campus at Edgerton House) |
| Chris Boyce | Undergraduate, Chemical Engineering | Interested in fuel cells and nuclear energy | Research in a chemical engineering lab developing a new material for fuel cells. |
| Scott Bradley | MIT PhD Student, EE (Devices/Materials) | Alternative energy sources: solar, wind; fuel storage technologies: fuel cells. | Works specifically on organic optics and electronics, so has experience in alternative solar cell materials and device structures. Also background in solid state physics and power electronics. |
| David Bradwell | PhD Candidate, Materials Science and Engineering | Energy storage, wind power | Researching an innovative battery technology for large-scale energy storage. Completed an M.Eng. in Materials Science and Engineering at MIT in 2006. |
| Matthew Branham | MIT MS Student, Mechanical Engineering | Renewables, efficient supply side production, manufacturing and industrial efficiency | Nuclear materials storage work at Livermore National Lab in summer '06. Background in energp policy and issues from Stanford course, "Energy Resources". |
| Kevin Brokish | MIT MS Student, Electrical Engineering (LEES) | Renewable Energy and Distributed Generation | Interned at Spirae, Inc. (distributed generation research). |
| Anna Bromberg | MIT MCP 2009, Environmental Policy and Planning | Renewable energy and sustainability | Work experience in remediation of MTBE (a gasoline additive) - contaminated sites |
| Carrie Brown | MIT PhD Student, Building Technology; BS MIT '04, course 4. MS UC Berkeley, Building Science. | Sustainable systems, distributed generation, energy efficient buildings | MIT Portugal project. Previous research includes demand response, UFAD systems, energy modeling and optimization. |
| Marie-Anne Brudieu | MIT Masters Student in Nuclear Science and Technology | Nuclear energy (4th generation, nuclear cycle), energy policy | Currently working on the Pebble Bed Modular Reactor. |
| Peter Bryn | MIT MS Student, Civil and Environmental Engineering (Transportation) | Nuclear power, hydrogen generation | Studied fuel cells independently, done some work with alternative propulsion, and researched air emissions mitigation technologies quite a bit (mostly for ships). Currently not involved in any energy related projects |
| Justin Buck | PhD Candidate, Biological Engineering (Course 20) | BioEnergy, particularly cellular energetics of photoactive proteins and metabolic enegineering of pathways involving high-energy, industrially relevent compounds. | (2005) 7 months, Process Engineer, Washington Group International, Oil and Gas Group, specializing in sour natural gas processing facilities. Currently working with Proteorhodopsin and metabolic engineering of bacterial repiration in the DeLong Lab at MIT. |
| Hussam Busfar | MIT PhD Student, Geophysics | Hydrocarbon Exploration and Nuclear energy | Worked for 2.5 years in Saudi Aramco oil company in the field of hydrocarbon exploration which included acquiring, processing, and interpreting seismic data and prospect generation. |
| Craig Cafarelli | Sloan MBA student, class of '09 | Interested in both conventional and alternative energy. | 12 years of experience working for Schlumberger in various roles, including Field Engineer, Line Management and Sales. I worked in the wireline evaluation segment. |
| Dan Cahan | Sloan MBA student, 2009 | Alternative energy, distributed generation, biofuels, oil extraction | Prior research in hydrogen fuel cells |
| Ted Carstensen | MIT Sloan MBA | Renewable energy and alternative fuels | Limited experience with solar |
| Murat Celik | MIT PhD Student, Aero/Astro | Nuclear energy, nuclear proliferation, nuclear energy related policy issues | |
| Antoine Cerfon | PhD student in the Nuclear Science and Engineering Department, Fusion division | Nuclear fusion, solar, geothermal | Currently working on the plasma theory of an alternative concept for fusion: the levitated dipole; worked for a year for AREVA, the French company specialized in nuclear power; member of a team which took part to Shell-EcoMarathon, a competition on vehicle fuel-efficiency. |
| Kaushal Challa | MIT Sloan MBA Student | Green technologies, green buildings | Sloan Energy Tech Trek '07, currently doing Sustainability Lab |
| Cy Chan | PhD candidate in Computer Science | Applications of computer science to energy conservation and renewable energy development and usage | Avid green energy and transportation blog reader. |
| Gabe Chan | Courses 12, 14, 17 Undergrad -- Junior | Integrated energy supply/demand portfolio approach to climate change |
Summer intern at the DoE in the Climate Change Technology Program |
| Liang-Yi Chang | PhD student, Department of Materials Science and Engineering | Photovoltaics |
None. |
| Lynette Cheah | MIT PhD Student, ME | Life cycle energy assessment of automobiles | Current project: Measuring the impact of vehicle mass reduction on fleet fuel consumption. |
| Shreerang Chhatre | PhD Candidate, Chemical Engineering Practice (PhD/MBA program) | Energy for developing countries | Research on electrolytes for solid oxide fuel cells. |
| Michael Chiu | MIT Sloan Fellows ‘08 (MBA) student, Mechanical Engineering: M.S. (’94), Ph.D. (’97) | Renewable/green/alternative/sustainable energy; energy policy and economics; building energy systems, energy infrastructure. | Past experience in solar arrays and building systems; currently investigating policy and infrastructure |
| Mira Chokshi | MIT ME Student, Civil & Environmental | Renewable, sustainable resources | General interest in energy |
| Carey Clouse | MIT MS Student, Architecture | Building energy use and products | LEED certified designer, experience working on gree design architectural projects. |
| Alexandre Coelho | MSc. Sloan Fellows | Renewables | Founder and CEO of Aether and of the Sea Earth Science Institute. |
| Brian Coffey | SB Physics, 2009 | Interested in addressing the problem from the demand side (while recognizing that working at both ends is vital) by bringing forth radical gains in vehicle and building efficiency. As a physics student, I'm fascinated with and excited by current research into commercially viable nuclear fusion. | I have become involved with the "Vehicle Design Summit," wherein a student-led group seeks to design, build, and deploy a plug-in series hybrid that sees a twenty-fold reduction in lifecycle costs below those of the Toyota Prius, as well as substantially improves fuel efficiency to something on the order of 200 mpge. |
| Joel Conkling | MIT Sloan MBA Student | Renewable energy,eEntrepreneurship | |
| Beth Conlin | MIT Staff Member, LFEE Education Program | Assisting students in finding energy related content and opportunities | Facilitate networking among MIT graduate fellowships, undergraduate research opportunities, research on energy related academic and research programs, IAP Seminar on City of Cambridge Climate Program, K-12 program in energy (http://lfee.mit.edu/education). |
| JP Connolly | MIT SM Student, TPP '08 | Energy system modeling, choice modeling and forecasting, technology assessment, policy | Current RA: energy system modeling and planning in Portugal. Work Experience: Consulting in Transportation Demand Forecasting, including network modeling, choice modeling, GIS, socioeconomic forecasting. Clients were regional transportation planners (highway and transit). As an undergrad also completed a number of energy-related course projects, and an undergrad thesis which examined the efficiency of residential electricity use. |
| Felicia Cox | MIT ME Student, EECS; MIT Alum, BS EECS | Renewable energy: solar, wind, ocean/tidal, geothermal, island energy. | Interested in alternative energy for island nations (from Barbados). Have been employed in the bldg. services sector in Barbados. |
| Nick Cravalho | MIT SDM (System Design and Management) Student '07 | Solar power and energy entrpreneurship | No prior work experience. Wrote paper on thin-film solar for Clay Christensen's HBS class and put together marketing strategy for a 3rd generation solar company for an entrepreneurial marketing class. |
| Jerome Crest | Msc Aero Astro | Renewable energies, oil industry, green buildings | None. |
| Steve Cruickshank | Liaison Officer with MIT Industrial Liaison Program (ILP) | Sustainable energy, WW Energy market & trends, building & transportation | None. |
| Lauren Culver | MS Student, Technology and Policy | Renewable Energy, Energy Systems, Energy Resource Assesment | Working in LFEE on the Sustainable Energy Systems portion of the Portugal Project. Prior experience in fabrication of organic photovoltaics. |
| Edward Cunningham | PhD candidate, Political Science; Research fellow, Industrial Performance Center | China Power Sector, Political Economy, Technology and Fuel Choice, Coal, Petroleum, Role of State Investment, Energy Security | Dissertation examines fuel, technology, and investment choices of Chinese power firms and the Chinese central and local state. |
| Mike Currie | MIT PhD Student, EECS | Photovoltaics, low energy indigenous building materials, sustainable home design | Designed and currently building sustainable home, research in biological PV. |
| Jeff Dahmus | MIT MS Engineering 2001, MIT PhD Mechanical Engineering 2007; Post-doctoral researcher, MIT Energy Initiative, Materials Systems Laboratory. | Energy in transportation, industrial energy use, energy efficiency, recycling | Vehicle lightweighting, electronics recycling. |
| David Danielson | MIT PhD Student, Mat. Sci. | Photovoltaics, renewable energy materials, energy in context | Founder, MIT Energy Club. Co-founder, MIT Energy Conference. Taught IAP course on "The Materials Science of Renewable Energy". Various consulting on energy technologiesl. Summer internship w/ Evergreen Solar, research and publications in photovoltaics, currently performing PhD research in light trapping in Si photovoltaics, photovoltaics/battery expert (Phone: 617-512-2646). |
| Sunita Darbe | MIT UG, Undeclared | Economical alternative energy sources for developing nations | No current experience. Looking to get involved in field. |
| Shreya Dave | Undergrad, Mechanical Engineering | Currently working as intern for the Prometheus Institute for Sustainable Development. Worked on World Silicon Report, published by the Prometheus Institute. Current Project: Concentrating Solar - A Market Review. | |
| Monica Davis | MIT LFM Student, Sloan MBA, MS Engineering Systems | General conservation, solar, wind, renewable energy. Efficient vehicle technology | |
| Phillip Dawson | MIT UG, ME | Nuclear | Policy classes with Prof. Oye, Lester, and Deutch. |
| Nicola De Blasi | Visiting Scientist, LFEE, company Eni | Oil and gas | I am a doctor in chemical engineering, work for an oil company, joined Eni about 10 years ago in the engineering company of the group, then economic feasibility studies and investment evaluation and now I work for the CTO of Eni |
| Mark de Figueiredo | MIT Research Assistant, LFEE | Carbon capture and sequesteration | Current RA in LFEE working on carbon capture and sequesteration |
| Stacey DeFino | MIT Sloan MBA Student | Oil, gas, alternative transportation fuels | I spent 5 years of working on energy policy for a Texas Congressman – particularly focusing on ways to stimulate the use of biodiesel and how to aid development of the Barnett Shale. |
| Christian Deilmann | Pursuing master of science, mechanical engineering, 2008 / MIT, Technical University of Munich (Germany) | Alternative energy sources, conversion of energy, energy carriers and entrepreneurship in energy | Theoretical knowledge in most fields of energy systems (5 years energy technology at TUM). Experience in: Bioenergy, Energetic use of waste, Fuell cells (work experience at Smart fuel cell AG, Biocellus), modelling and forecasting hydrogen demand in refineries (Linde AG). Master thesis needs to be determined. |
| Guillaume DE ROO | MIT MSc Student in TPP | Nuclear energy, energy markets | Research on energy markets modeling |
| Varun Dhanuka | MBA '09 @ Sloan | Alternate Energy Generation (Solar, Bioenergy, Hydroenergy) and Biofuels | Worked as a technology licensor (designing refineries and petrcchemical plants) for 3 years at ABB Lummus. |
| Luciano Di Fiori | MBA at MIT Sloan 2009 | Oil and Gas, renewable energy | Worked as planning analyst for a Latin-American oil company. |
| Bob DiMatteo | MIT MBA Sloan Fellow; MIT Alum: MS, TPP; MS, EECS; Technical Director and Program Manager, MPTV, Draper Lab | MTPV (Micron-gap ThermoPhotovoltaics), renewable energy, new energy technology, finance, and business development | MTPV Development, New Energy Tech finance mechanisms, MTPV startup |
| Matthew Dirckx | PhD Candidate in MechE 2009 | Engineering for renewable energy & sustainability | |
| Kathy Donnelly | MIT TPP Student | Managing energy demand, renewable energy | Current RA with Dave Marks and Steve Connors on 2020 Energy Stability in the UK; 8 years of industry transportation experience |
| Pearl Donohoo | ESD-TPP | Renewable energy | 2 internships at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory |
| Brian Dracup | MIT Sloan MBA | Renewable Energy | No direct experience, background is in Materials Engineering (BS, MS, and many years of work experience) |
| Ingrid Dudek | Program Officer, Lemelson-MIT Program; MS, International Affairs, Georgia Tech | Sustainable technologies / CleanTech | Administering sustainable invention prize. |
| Catherine Dunn | MIT HST Staff | Interested in learning about energy research at MIT | Generally interested in energy problem |
| Paula Echeverri | Ph. D. Candidate, Mechanical Engineering | Alternative energy, energy innovation, energy and development | Research in ocean internal waves, organizer of energy panel for the conference on Science, Technology and Innovation in Colombia |
| Jesse Edgerton | MIT PhD Student, Economics | Tax incentives for energy investments, energy project finance | My research is on taxes and business investment. |
| Jenny Edwards | Department of Urban Studies and Planning, MCP (Masters of City Planning) | Energy policy and planning, energy markets, climate change, energy and development | Worked on electricity markets and policy research for US DOE, with a focus on residential / commercial distributed generation, customer adoption and national forecast modeling, and GIS as a tool for neighborhood-scale energy planning. |
| Michael Ellis | Harvard MBA Student | Alternative energy (startups, operations, and venture capital), greenhouse gas/emissions trading | Consulting to alternative energy companies (solar, fuel cell), researching GHG-trading scheme for local company. |
| Daniel Enderton | MIT PhD Student, Climate Physics | Climate science and policy, energy in context, bringing low/zero carbon technologies to market | Science of climate change, midwest energy use and trends, particularly in Minnesota. |
| Ariel Esposito | MIT Undergrad, Environmental Engineering | Energy transport systems, renewable energy | Previous MIT Energy Club Education Chair, energy classes website development, creation of ndergraduate section of MIT Energy Club. |
| Chris Evans | MIT MSc Student, Technology and Policy Program | Renewable energy, transportation, distributed generation, climate change, energy access | Eco-efficiency analyst for the Pembina Institute, a Canadian non-governmental organisation focused on energy issues. Research on experimental waste-to-energy gasification. Oil and gas sector experience in the Albertan tar sands with Suncor Energy. |
| Samuel Evans | Bachelors candidate in Materials Science and Engineering | Interest in photovoltaics and any alternative energy | None. |
| Stephan Feilhauer | Master Candidate Technology and Policy Program | Alternative energy, carbon trading, energy finance | Research assistant on carbon trading, investment banking background |
| Marco Ferrara | PhD Candidate, Course 22 | Nuclear Fusion. Energy in General | Research Experience in Plasma Control (4 years). General Interest in Energy Policy and Economics. |
| Randall Field | MIT Energy Initiative, Exec Dir, Conversion Research Program | Gasification, Carbon Capture, CO2 Policy, Geothermal, Solar Thermal | Process Simulation and Analysis. |
| Curt Fischer | MIT PhD Student, Chemical Engineering | Biofuels and renewables-derived chemicals | Biocatalyst development for fuels and chemicals, Biodiesel@MIT. |
| Meredith Fisher | MIT Sloan MBA 2009 | Biofuels, microbially-mediated fuel development and processes, fuel cells, methane, algae, wastewater treatment, combined facilities. | PhD Environmental Microbiology (Harvard), former MassEnergy intern. |
| Cash Fitzpatrick | MIT MEng student, Environmental Engineering | Renewables, Sustainable Energy Practices. | Energy Ventures class (15.396), other various coursework in LEED & PVs. |
| Francisco Flores-Macias | Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Political Science | Oil and gas industries, resource nationalism, state ownership of oil | Ph.D. research focuses on the causes of performance differences among state-owned oil companies. |
| David C. Forney | PhD candidate, mechanical engineering, geophysics | Carbon sequestion, photosynthetic biofuels, organic substrate biofuels, residential alternative energy e.g. solar turbine, evaluation/efficiency of organic carbon sequestration mechanisms. | Natural mechanisms for organic carbon sequestration in soils and sediments, published. HCCI engine research at Lawrence Livermore. Formula SAE vehicle design competition for three years. |
| Patrícia Fortes | MIT visiting student under the MIT-Portugal Program; PhD student (Environmental Engineering) in New University of Lisbon | Energy policy and economics, long term energy planning, renewable energy, energy emissions and climate change | Researcher in the Portuguese Project: E2POL - Integrated Environmental and Energy Policies - Approaches to manage electricity production and consumption. |
| Travis Franck | Ph.D. in Technology, Management and Policy, ESD; RA with the Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change | Transformation of the energy economy; Technology development and adoption; carbon-friendly technologies and policies | Economic modeling of climate/energy policies; Work at the OECD. |
| Steve Fredette | BS Chemistry 2006, current occupation: Sales Engineer | Energy entrepreneurship and innovation | Currently exploring business plans to simplify the process of using solar energy. |
| Susan Fredholm | MIT MS Student, Technology and Policy Program | All | Spent summer at MIT working on a micro solid oxide fuel cell (SOFC) project. Yearlong undergrad project on reforming ethanol into hydrogen for SOFC power. Currently performing graduate research work on electronics recycling. |
| Nikhil Garg | MIT Sloan MBA Student '08 | Alternative/renewable energy sources | Studied energy science and technology during undergrad at Stanford |
| Nicholas Gayeski | MIT MS Student in Building Technology | Energy conservation through bldg. technologies, esp. solar and thermal. Future of energy for transportation and electricity generation | Experience researching environmental policy issues at the Environmental Law Institut, through not specific to the energy sector. Potential project researching the bi-directional transmission and reflection distribution functions of window systems in short wave infrared range to develop a better understanding of how to control solar gains. |
| Talia Gershon | MIT Undergraduate, Materials Science and Engineering | Photovoltaics | Worked at NREL in summer '06 as an intern in the organic PV group researching the effect of phthalocyanine additions to solution-processed OPV devices. |
| Saba Ghole | MIT MS Student, ArchS A+U | Industrial ecology, photovoltaics | None |
| Hudson Gilmer | Sloan Fellow, 15 yrs Telecom Service Dev. & Project Mgmt. | Distributed generation, energy services, economics of deregulation, solar | Demand response programs, backup power systems, development of protocols for distributed energy network management. |
| Hope Ginsburg | Artist, Visual Arts Program, MIT School of Architecture | Sustainable manufacturing | Green product research and development. Writing a thesis on creating a dynamic between environmental work in industry and a studio art practice. |
| C. Franklin Goldsmith | MIT PhD Student, Chemical Engineering | Combustion, fuel development, fuel cells, energy economics and policy. | Former research scientist in fuel cells (especially in portable fuel cells) at Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems in Freiburg, Germany. Currently working on detailed combustion models for improved engine efficiency. |
| Daniel Goldsmith | Research Associate, MIT Sloan School of Management | Energy and security, energy and systems dynamics | Currently working as Research Associate at Sloan School, with a research focus on systems dynamics and security studies. Interested in pursuing energy projects through the MIT Political Science department. Attended MIT Energy Club RETScreen Training. |
| Leonardo Gomez | PhD candidate, Electrical Engineering | Interested in learning more about the PV industry and other energy production technologies | Solid state physics background some of which relevant to photovoltaics. |
| Sorino Gramo | MIT MS Student, System Design and Management (SDM) | Solar thermal and photovoltaics | On the team of MIT students who are building a solar thermal power system. The system uses parabolic concentrating mirrors to generate heat which is then converted to cooling and electricity. Our business plan to commercialize this idea won third place in the Ignite Clean Energy competition held spring 2006. |
| Vanessa Green | M.Eng. in Civil and Environmental Engineering | Energy efficiency and infrastructure, alternative energy generation (wind, solar, etc.), sustainable use of global energy resources, market based instruments | Former consultant at Monitor Group, project work included research and anaylsis in energy utilities and oil & gas sectors. Currently taking courses on sustainable resource management / pollution control, energy strategy and ventures. |
| Lisa Griffiths | MIT Sloan MBA 2009 | Alternative/Green Energy, biodiesel, alternative energy in international development | Los Angeles biodiesel cooperative enthusiast, former biodiesel user (02 VW 50-99.9%B). |
| Joshua Grochow | MIT UG Math | Looking to learn | Looking for opportunities to apply math/CS skills to the energy problem |
| Geoffrey Groesbeck | TPP, 2006 | Renewable energy, esp. PE/VC-backed bio opportunities; cross-border collaborations; green tech adaption in emerging economies | Editor in Chief, World Trade Executive, Inc. |
| Tiffany Groode | PhD in Mechanical Engineering, graduating in Jan 2008 | Renewable fuels, biofuels, biomass, renewable power generation | Environmental impacts and scale of production of ethanol in the United States |
| Dan Guarda | MIT UG Student, ME | Solar energy | None |
| Mark Gustafson | Sloan Fellow, Class of 2008 | General interest in the entire energy sector - particularly interest in geothermal and residential power and conservation technologies | 20 years in aerospace propulsion and power systems |
| Brittany Guyer | MIT UG in ME | Energy efficient technologies for homes and commercial buildings. | None |
| George Haldeman | Aero/Astro '88, NucE '01. Staff member at Lincoln Laboratory. | Interested in small, portable electric power systems with extended capacity and thermoelectric waste heat recovery. | Not much practical energy experience. Currently working on a small TE generator system for DOD applications. |
| Gary Hall | MIT Sloan MBA Student, '08 | Renewables, particularly wind and solar. Fusion in long term. | |
| Michael Hamilton | S.M. Technology and Policy Program | Carbon Capture and Sequestration; American and Chinese Energy Policy; Sustainable Energy Systems | Energy Policy and US Energy History with Prof. Marilyn Brown at Georgia Tech; Fuel cell research background with direct alcohol fuel cells fabrication and testing with Prof. Michael Ellis at Virginia Tech, and solid oxide fuel cell transient modeling with Prof. Comas Haynes at Georgia Tech |
| Michael Hanowsky | ESD PhD | Transportation, Emissions Regulation, and Equity | None. |
| Eerik Hantsoo | MIT S.M. Student, Mechanical Engineering | Photovoltaics and the manufacturing of photovoltaics. | Experience: leader of the Stanford University Solar Car Project (2003-2005), staff engineer at Nanosolar, Inc. (2005-2006), lab member in Ely Sachs' PV group (2006-present) |
| Alicia Jillian J. Hardy | MIT PhD Student, ME | Interest in both renewable and non-renewable energy resources. Interested in improving the efficient usage of petroleum oil (in the transportation sector) and coal (particularly in developing countries). | Recently performed project in 2.63 (Applications of Technology - Lester/Deutch) that dealt with carbon capture in IGCC plants via dual membrane (water gas) shift reactor. Current work under Prof. John Heywood in Sloan Auto Lab involves partially reforming gasoline on board a vehicle so as to allow for engine performance criteria to be met with a less refined fuel, and also to bring a form of internal combustion engine known as "HCCI" into practicality. HCCI stands for Homogeneous Charge Compression Ignition and could drastically improve fuel economy in automobiles. |
| Soren Harrison | MIT Visiting Graduate Student at Plasma Science and Fusion Center (PSFC). Small business owner. | Nuclear fusion, solar photovoltaics, distributed power generation and enabling technlogies. | Experience at national nuclear fusion facility & doctoral candidate in Nuclear Fusion. Developing solar consumer product line. Forming solar/educational non-profit. |
| Katy Hartman | MIT Undergrad '08, Material Science and Engineering | Alternative energy (mainly solar), fuel cells | Summer internship at Evergreen Solar |
| Cankutan Hasar | MIT Undergraduate, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science | Alternative Energy and Efficient Energy Distribution | Participated in solar-energy related development projects. Research in distribution of energy. |
| Alexander Hayman | MIT Undergraduate Student, EECS | Electric vehicles, solar power, wind power, batteries, ultra/super capacitors | Leader of the MIT Solar Electric Vehicle Team. |
| Tim Heidel | MIT PhD Student, EECS | Photovoltaics | Experience with organic semiconductor photovoltaics research |
| Andy Hider | MIT Sloan MBA 2009 | Alternative and Renewable Energy Sources | None. |
| Ashleigh Hildebrand | M.S. Candidate in Technology and Policy Program in ESD and Chemical Engineering (Course 10) | Energy technology policy, especially carbon capture and sequestration | M.Phil in Environmental Policy (thesis on oil refineries and the clear air act), interned for Halliburton (R&D) and ConocoPhillips (refinery); Current work: evaluating opportunities for retrofitting of existing coal-fired power plants for carbon capture and sequestration. |
| Jim Hileman | Research Engineer, Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics | Alternative Fuels for Aviation | FAA and ACRP sponsored research to examine the use of alternative fuels in commercial aviation. Co-chief engineer for the Silent Aircraft Initiative. |
| Sam Hill | MIT Alum, MS Media Arts and Sciences | AMR, environmental sensors/electronic waste | Projects include research on solar cells, waste recycling, and lower power sensors for robotics |
| Teresa Hill | PhD, Assistant Director for Programs and Communications, LFEE (MIT) | ||
| Bryan Ho | PhD Xandidate, Mat Sci | My research is in thermoelectrics, but I have a broader interest in the economics/policy aspect of energy infrastructure. | My current work is on thermoelectric materials. I've worked in the past briefly on a fuel cell project and a photovoltaic materials project. During college, I was part of the Harvard Resource Efficiency Program, which was a student led program to increase the student and staff's efficiency in the use of water/heat/electricity/recycling. |
| Mike Hogan | Masters Candidate, Environmental Policy & Planning | Sustainable energy policy | 20+ years in the energy industry including GE Power Systems, J. Makowski Inc., Intergen Energy, Maxenergy, and Direct Energy |
| Alexander Hsu | Course 10 - Chemical Engineering undergraduate, Minor in Course 15 | Alternative energy development. | Worked on projects for Citizens Energy in biofuels, solar, and biomass energy generation. |
| Jamie Huang | MIT Undergrad 2011, Undecided | Alternative energy. | None. |
| Kevin J. Huang | Ph.D. candidate, Materials Science and Engineering | Renewable technologies for primary and distributed/mobile power generation, national energy policy | Founder, UIUC Energy Club; working for Paula Hammond (ChE) on the use of polyelectrolyte multilayers in various energy applications (fuel cells, batteries, capacitors, photovoltaics) |
| Steve Hudelson | MS (possibly PhD) candidate, ME; RA in Buonassisi PV group | Renewable energy, esp. PV; energy conservation (insulation, fenestration, envelope tightness, etc.) | 3 summer internships at Owens Corning, a leader in fiberglass insulation and other energy efficiency technologies; working for Buonassisi Group with stated mission "to accelerate the adoption of renewable energy technologies, and photovoltaics in particular, via breakthroughs in efficiency, cost reduction, de-bottlenecking, and increased materials utilization." |
| Duane Hudgins | MIT PhD Student, Mechanical Engineering | Sustainable energy overall, including but not limited to, solar power, biofuels, wind power, geothermal, fuel cells, and tidal power. | As an undergraduate, was the team leader for a senior project which designed and built a ducted wind turbine electric generator. For graduate work at MIT, studying certain gas combustion processes. The purpose of this study is to provide information necessary for the building of coal power plants that release zero emissions into the atmosphere. |
| Llewelyn Hughes | PhD Student, Political Science | Energy security, the politics of upstream development | 1.5 years experience in the electricity and gas sectors in Tokyo doing regulatory work in house and as a consultant. |
| Diana Huidobro | MIT Sloan School of Management- MBA candidate 2009 | Areas of energy interest: alternative energy: biofuels, solar, green architecture, demand response and grid management. | I worked for one year in research project about the sugarcane ethanol industry in Brazil covering technology, value chain, industry, investors, entrepreneurs, etc. I also worked with the Harvard Green Campus Initiative designing and executing social marketing campaigns to foster the efficient use of resources, recycling, sustainability, etc. |
| Catherine Humblet | MIT Sloan MBA '06 | Renewables | |
| Lindsay Hunting | MIT UG Student, undeclared | Interested in experimenting with new materials to come up with any kind of more efficient and clean energy sources that can replace fossil fuel use. No previous experience yet. | |
| Fergus Hurley | MIT PhD Student, EECS | Renewable energy and new electrical energy technologies | Current thesis topic is undecided but did undergraduate thesis on domestic wind turbines. Interested in finding out about projects available for graduate students in the energy field. |
| Tyler Hutchison | MIT UG Student, undeclared | Renewable technologies, energy efficient buildings | Generally interested in energy. |
| Behnam Jafarpour | MIT PhD Student, Environmental Systems, Civil & Enviro Engineering | Hydrocarbon reservoir characterization and recovery optimization | Use of data assimilation in updating/characterizing reservoir models, Shell Sponsored project under Prof. Dennis McLaughlin. |
| Sam Jasinksi | MIT Undergraduate Student, Mechanical Engineering | Hydrogen, solar, electric vehicles | None. |
| Jennifer Jeng | Sloan MBA '09 candidate | Renewable energy and hybrid automobile market in California | None. |
| Vikas Jhingran | Mechanical Engineering/PhD in Ocean Engineering (expected Dec 2007) | Oil and Gas, Renewable energy ideas for the future. | Past Experience - 7+ years of experience in the Oil and Gas sector (Houston). Experience primarily in the design (including new designs) and analysis of offshore drilling and production units including jack-ups, deep water semi-submersibles and drill-ships. Research - Current research is on Vortex-Induced Vibrations with applications to risers (pipes used to transport oil and gas in the ocean) and floating vessels (deep water semi-submersibles, Spars and TLPs) |
| Alissa Jones | MS Student, mechanical engineering | Renewable energy, clean energy technologies | Energy and materials reduction in manufacturing, distributed solar installations. |
| Christopher Jones | MIT Assistant Dean for Graduate Students (MIT MS Nuc Eng/TPP) | Energy policy in developing regions; nuclear proliferation, environmental effects of energy technologies | MIT Thesis: "Non Proliferation Issues in the Nuclear Future". NESCAUM: Helped to develop NE-MARKAL (energy market analysis tool for policy makers). |
| Huzeifa Ismail | PhD Candidate, Dept of Chemistry | Fundamental Chemistry and Kinetics of Combustion & Atmospheric Molecules Alternative Fuels, Transportation Fuels, Solar, & Biomass Engines | Internship at Combustion Research Facility at Sandia National Labs; Fundamental understanding of combustion and atmospheric processes; Developing large models of fuel burning. Experimental Physical Chemist. |
| Rhonda Jordan | MIT PhD Student, ESD | Sustainable Energy Technologies for Developing Countries | General interest in Energy; Assessment of current energy technologies in Angola, Africa and Salvador, Brazil |
| Natalija Jovanovic | MIT PhD Student, EECS - Power Systems | Thermophotovoltaics | PhD research is in design, analysis, fabrication, and evaluation of selective emitters for TPV applications. |
| Justin Jow | MIT Sloan MBA 2009 | Alternative/renewable energy | Previously evaluated energy related projects as a private equity investment professional. |
| Ibrahim Kanan | MIT ME UG | Various energy technologies | Performed design project on floating wind turbines |
| Charvark Karpe | MIT Masters Student, EE; Minor, ME | All | Worked on ConocoPhillips gas-to-liquids process. Studied internal combustion engines with John Heywood and studying electrical machines with James Kirtley. Financial and economic knowledge, useful in making reasonable claims about energy. |
| Valerie Karplus | Technology and Policy / Civil and Environmental Engineering (Graduate, MS) | Electric Vehicles, Political Economy of Energy Markets, Energy Policy in Emerging Markets (especially China) | Working on economics of hybrid electric vehicles with the MIT Joint Program. Spent two years in China, working on energy, environment, and development topics. |
| Jason Kelly | MIT PhD Student, Bioengineering | Biofuels | None |
| Edward Kern | Former MIT Researcher, LFEE | Photovoltaic systems | Have PV systems engineering company, Irradiance (www.irradiance.com) |
| Kurt Keville | MIT research staff | Renewable energy, E85 gasohol, LENR, CANR | Put on Business of Wind Power Symposium (2003) and Cold Fusion and Clean Alternative Energy Colloqium (2005) with MIT E-club; wind energy business plan submission to Ignite Clean Energy Competition (2005) |
| Elizabeth Kim | MIT Undergrad, Courses 2 & 10, '10 | Interested in learning what new technologies are being developed to help the energy crisis and what I as an individual can do to support it | None. |
| Troy Kim | MBA, Sloan | Solar | Internship at Intel Capital as solar investment analyst, 5 years in thin film engineering |
| Boris Kozinsky | PhD student, Dept of Physics and Materials Science and Engineering | Areas of Interest - Energy storage materials, auto traffic optimization, efficiency of buildings. | Currect projects - methods of first-principles calculations of materials properties, applications to energy storage systems. |
| David Krippendorf | MIT Sloan MBA 2008 | Alternative/Clean Energy | Classwork and internship in alternative energy |
| Sriram Krishnan | Ph.D. Mechanical Engineering, 2007 (Associate, McKinsey and Company, beginning October 2007) | Global energy markets, Infrastructure development and deployment | GM Hydrogen car case contest participant, Active member in Students for Global Sustainability |
| Asbjorg Kristinsdottir | MIT Leaders for Manufacturing, class of 2008. MBA & MSc Civil Engineering. | Renewable energy. | National Power Company in Iceland (2002-2006): Project Management for 690 MW Karahnjukar Hydroelectric Project. Environmental Assessment for geothermal power plants. |
| Matthew Kromer | MIT MS Student, TPP | Mobility, personal transit, automobiles; broader interests in sustainability and resource efficiency | Expertise in mobility, personal transit, and automobiles. Built an electric vehicle as undergrad. Currently working with Prof. John Heywood in Sloan Automotive Lab on an assessment of future vehicle technologies. |
| Jonathan Krones | MIT UG 2007, Mat. Sci. | Decentralized, off-grid renewable power | Had a UROP with Prof. Kirchain and Jeremy Gregory in the Materials Systems Laboratory researching the environmental and economic issues in secondary metals recycling, specifically in the electronics industry. |
| Mikhael Krotov | MSc candidate in Aero/Astro | Renewable energy, wave energy extraction | Thesis on ocean dynamics. |
| David Kuhn | MIT MS Naval Construction and Engineering (ME) | Wind, fuel cells | Experience operating nuclear power plants, in class projects examining fuel cells. |
| Mythri Kumar | Chemical Engineering Undergrad (3rd year); Minor: Management Science | Renewable sources of energy, oil/petroleum industry | Had an internship in the Hovensa oil refinery this past summer and hope to use my Chem Eng background to perform an International Development project in the Energy area. |
| Jenny Kwan | MIT Sloan MBA 2009 | Oil, gas, biofuels, alternative energy, sustainable use of energy (e.g. sustainable mobility) | Royal Dutch Shell for 5 years including: Gas new business development and project governance; and Chemicals supply chain and logisitics. |
| Matthew Landreman | MIT PhD Student, Physics | Policy, cost/benefit analysis of various energy technologies | Currently performing research on nuclear fusion. |
| Annika Larsson | MIT Undergraduate, Materials Science & Engineering | Renewable and alternative energy | Interned at Applied Materials in the Clean Energy Group. Researched thin film silicon PV. |
| Jake Latcham | MIT Undergrad, Mechanical Engineering | Renewables, Heat Engines, Energy Efficiency, Unconventional Oil | Internship with Shell E&P team developing gas heaters for in-situ heavy oil upgrading |
| Yun Seog Lee | Ph.D student MechE; Advisor: Prof. Tonio Buonassisi | PV energy, low cost production of solar cell | Current project: Thin-film solar cell technology |
| Andrew Lerch | Nuclear Engineering | Nuclear fission | Work at the MIT nuclear reactor |
| Steven Leschuk | MIT Sloan Class of 2009 (MBA) | Renewable Energy and Carbon Trading | None (yet) |
| Minwah Leung | MIT UG 2007, Nuclear Engineering | Nuclear fission, sustainable energy, energy efficiency, limiting CO2 emissions | Course work in nuclear engineering. |
| Taariq Lewis | Sloan School of Management, MBA | Carbon trading, sugar ethanol and energy commodities trading, carbon sequestering | Sugar ethanol refinery and production in Trinidad & Tobago. |
| Burt LaFountain | MIT Sloan MBA 2009, MIT Alum (SM 1999) | Renewable/Alternative Energy; Clean Technology; Corporate Energy Strategy | |
| G.J. La'O | MIT PhD Student, Mat. Sci. | High temperature fuel cells, flexi-fuel fuel cells, renewable energy | Currently working on solid oxide fuel cells, oxygen reduction reactions |
| Catharina Lavers | MIT Sloan MBA ‘09 | Developing cost-effective renewable/alternative energy and sustainability strategies as part of corporate models. | |
| Yann Le Tallec | MIT PhD Student, Operations Research | All, including energy trading, new technology for energy generation, efficiency, socio-eco-political aspects, developing countries | Very little experience. Helped out friends at blueEnergy, a young company developing wind turbines for Nicaragua. Expertise is rather theoretical in applied math, CS, econ. |
| Christine Lee | Undergraduate, Materials Science and Engineering, Class of '09 | Photovoltaics, renewable energy | Interned at thin-film CIGS solar cell startup, extern working with diesel particulate filters. |
| David Levy | MIT Sloan MBA Student '08 | Wind power - distribution and production, PV solar, Geothermal, and Solar Thermal | Involved with organization of Energ 2.0: MIT Energy Conference in 2007, interned at Heliovolt Corporation, member of MIT Thin Film Research Team, Intern Reporter with Infrastructure Journal on renewable energy. |
| Romain Lévy | M.S., Technology and Policy Program, 2008; M.Eng., Logistics and Supply Chain Management (MLOG), 2008 | Energy Policy, Nuclear | |
| Chunlin Li (Mike Lee) | Master of Engineering in Logistics (MLOG) Student 2008 | Renewable Energy, solar energy | Started up my own company on solar energy field, experience on product sourcing, new product introduce, high volume production, and lean Six Sigma. |
| Dai-Yin David Li | PhD student in Materials Science and Engineering | Solar cells | Photoelectrochemical etching |
| Justine Li | Sloan Fellows 08 | Biofuel, solar | Participated in solar energy project |
| Cynthia Lin | S.B. candidate, Mechanical Engineering | Energy policy, sustainable energy, alternative energy technologies, technologies and policies for emerging economies (specifically China) | Prior internship at GE Gasification; thesis topic on Solar Thermal; course work in engineering, energy, Chinese politics; attended conference in Japan on Forestry and Global Sustainability |
| Scott Litzelman | MIT PhD Student, Materials Science | Fuel cells, interplay of short-term (development) and long-term (grand challenge) energy research | Current thesis research in improving the ionic conductivity of solid electrolytes and degradation processes in fuel cell cathodes. |
| Daniel Livengood | MIT PhD candidate, Engineering Systems Division | Electricity/energy demand response, smart meters, smart grids | |
| John Lock | MIT PhD '05, Chemical Engineering; MIT Postdoc | Technology innovation for reduced energy consumption | Starting a company for OLED materials and technology relevant to solid state lighting |
| Nathan Lovell | PhD Student, Mat. Sci. | Renewable energy technologies and impacts on the current distribution infrastructure of localized non-dispatchable energy production; public/political obstacles to change; efficiency-improving technologies and their deployment | MIT Sustainable Energy class; present research is in polymer materials that can be (re)processed without heat. |
| Don MacKenzie | S.M., Technology & Policy, '09 | Transportation, Sustainability | 3 years policy analysis & advocacy with the Union of Concerned Scientists, Washington DC. 1.5 years of biofuels/catalysis research. 1 year fuel cell research |
| Anna Mahr | MIT Professional Programs Manager, Professional Education Programs (PEP) | Energy in general | No energy expertise, but looking into the possibility of PEP offering some energy courses in 2008. Hence I am interested in learning about the area, the questions, the research and the players. |
| Rahul Malik | MIT PhD Student, Materials Science | Photovoltaics, fuel cells, hydrogen production and storage, energy policy | Summer internship at National Resources Canada (NRCAN) working on hydrogen storage in intermetallics; Summer internship at National Resource Council of Canada (NRC) Aerospace Institute working on thin film high temperature barrier coatings on turbine blades; Summer internship at the Palo Alto Research Center (PARC) working on silicon based solar cells. |
| Dani Maniscalco | MIT TPP Student | African energy and oil sector reform and sustainable social and economic development | |
| Shanelle Manuelito | MIT Undergrad, Undecided | Energy Conservation | |
| David Marks | Co-Director, LFEE; Professor, Civil Engineering | ||
| Patrick Martel | Sloan Fellow '07 | Renewable Energy | Nine years in an electric utility in Europe |
| Jeff McAulay | MIT MS Student, TPP, Sloan Auto Lab | Transportation, biofuels, adoption of new technology, policy incentives | Industry: Worked in automotive liquid fuel reforming on an integrated fuel processor/fuel cell system. Undergraduate: Microbial fuel cell optimization using glucose metabolism to generate electric current |
| Andrew Mcinnes | Sloan MBA Student | Alternatives and renewables energy entreprenurship | Broadly interested in global energy problem. |
| Timothy McIntosh | course 10 senior (U) | Sustainable usage of natural energy resources as a means of enhancing 3rd world economies, accurately assessing the environmental impacts of tapping into these resources. | Interned in the Reservoir Engineering Dept of BP (Trinidad and Tobago), responsibilities included use of computer models (MBAL/PROSPER) to predict lifespan of gas wells/ assessment of appropriate technologies for increasing the lifespan of near depleted wells (compression), liaison with offshore teams |
| David McClain | MIT PhD Student, Chemical Engineering | Renewable energy and biofuels | None |
| Meghan McGuinness | MIT TPP MS Student | National policy, renewables | Analysis of economic impacts of power sector regulation at Resources for the Future. |
| Amy McKnight | MBA Sloan '09 (Also MS '01) | Renewable Energy, Clean Technology | Several years of experience in management consulting and corporate finance. MS Oceanography (Marine Geophysics). |
| Saahil Mehra | B.S. Candidate,Materials Science and Engineering | Main interests are in solar devices and applications | Will be working for a solar device start-up this summer |
| Maria Alejandra Menchaca-Brandan | PhD student, Mechanical Engineering. | Energy-efficient buildings, natural ventilation, environmental education/awareness in developing countries, sustainability. | Currently part of the MIT Buiding Technology group, focusing on natural ventilation. |
| Andreas Mershin | MIT Postdoc, Center for Biomedical Engineering; MS Physics, Imperial College; PhD & MS Physics, Texas A&M | Solar (especially bio-solar), wind, wave, policy. | Spinach power project, ZnO-nanowire-based biophotovoltaics, nanostructures for solar cells |
| Sherife Abdel Messih | Junior/ Mechanical Engineering | Renewable Energy, Carbon Trading | None. |
| Matt Meyers | Sloan MBA '09 | Wind, solar and energy storage | Structured equity and debt offerings as an I-banking Analyst in Banc of America Securities' Energy and Power group, tracked and analyzed the energy markets as an Investment Consultant for Ballentine, Finn & Co. |
| Caetano Miranda | MIT Post Doc, Materials Science and Engineering | Renewable energy, photovoltaics and hydrogen storage materials | Currently works on atomistic properties of materials. Currently studying materials for hydrogen storage and amorphous systems for photovoltaic applications. |
| Go Mizoguchi | Sloan MBA 2008 | Power Generation(Especially Gas, Coal and Wind) | Worked for 4 years for a trading and investment company, Mitsui & Co., and Tokyo Electric Power Company(TEPCO), the largest utility in Japan, in their power generation facility. During that time I imported GE's gas turbines to TEPCO as well as exported their old equipment overseas. Also, I was a Mitsui's project manager for TEPCO's new gas-fired power plant construction project. At MIT, I participated in $100K with an idea focusing on energy demand side management. |
| Vrajesh Modi | MechE, Sloan, Class of 2011 | Alternative/Renewable Energy | None. |
| Rory Monaghan | PhD Candidate, Mechanical Engineering | Development and implementation of energy technology to address climate change | Current research: modeling coal gasification for IGCC plants for optimizing gasifier design. Work experience: worked in CO2 capture and storage at Sustainable Energy Ireland, the government body responsible for promoting sustainable energy. Masters research: analysis of hybrid wind-H2 systems for remote off-grid power applications. |
| Ernie Moniz | Co-Director, LFEE; Professor, ESD/Physics | Energy Policy, Nuclear Power, Renewables | Former U.S. Undersecretary of Energy |
| Brian Morrissey | MIT Sloan, MBA 2008 | Renewable Energy, Energy Policy | Strategic marketing for GE Energy, including compiling competitive intelligence for heavy duty gas turbines |
| Molly Mowery | MIT Masters Student, DUSP | Land use, renewable energy, promotion of "green" development, and energy conservation | Worked as a planning consulting firm for several years where she analyzed ways in which zoning codes could provide more sustainable communities. |
| Harish Mukundan | PhD candidate in Mechanical Engineering (expected 2008), SM in Ocean Systems Management (2007), SM in Mechanical Engineering (2005), SM in Ocean Engineering (2005) | Exploration & Production (Research & Development), Logistics & Energy Transportation, Renewable Energy & Energy Management. | Present research on Vortex-Induced Vibration of Marine Pipelines, Risers and Ocean Structures. Previously worked did research on maritime sector in India. |
| Carlijn Mulder | MIT MS Student, Applied Physics | Broad interest in energy related topics, solar energy and energy policy in particular. | Currently working as a Research Assistant with MIT Prof. Marc Baldo. Worked for 5 months on silicon solar cells at the Energy Research Center of the Netherlands, and for 4 months for the Dutch Government on energy policy. Hope to pursue PhD on organic solar cells or on technologies that increase the amount of energy extracted from the solar spectrum. |
| Amir Nejadmalayeri | Postdoctoral Fellow - Research Laboratory of Electronics (EECS) | renewable energy resources. | no energy related experience. |
| Bonna Newman | Grad Student, Physics / Research Assistant | Solid state energy applications (ie solar, storage, and transmission). Nuclear, other renewables, and efficient carbon based usage. | Developing curriculum for Course 8 undergraduate Physics of Energy course. |
| Rossella Nicolin | MIT MS Student, Civil Engineering | Energy efficient buildings, sustainable design, photovoltaics, environmental impact of construction materials | Experience in green building design through academic work and internships. |
| Zhai Ning | Master of Science in Computation for Design and Optimization. | Energy Trading. | BP employee, Thesis on storage and refinery optimization. |
| Mark Norsworthy | Undergraduate Junior, Course 22 - Nuclear Science and Engineering | Nuclear energy, sustainable energy, energy policy. | |
| Dan O’Brien | MIT Sloan MBA (London Business School Exchange) | Renewable Energy and Low Carbon Finance | No prior experience |
| Austin Oehlerking | MIT Undergraduate Student, Mechanical Engineering with Concentration in Energy Conversion | Offshore wind, Geothermal, solar thermal, solar | Mainly from classes, looking for a UROP in energy. |
| Elsa Olivetti | MIT PhD Student, Materials Science | Alternative energy technologies, campus energy use and conservation strategies | Dissertation on cathode materials for Li-polymer rechargeable batteries. Documenting and developing fact-sheets on campus fume hood energy use, campus energy use investigations with Steven Peters. |
| Adebowale Onifade | MS Candidate, Engineering Management, Tufts University | Renewable Energy: Solar, Ethanol, Biomass, Wave and Tidal Energy | Solar Energy for Rural Nigeria (SERN) (2004): International undergraduate research work organized by Mondialogo, UNESCO and DaimlerChrysler. Independent Power Generation for Southwest Nigeria (IPGSN): The team is also seeking collaborations with state governments in Nigeria, other technical teams in America pursuing similar projects, international organizations, manufacturing & research companies, as well as investors. The project is intended for the entire developing Africa and just intends to pilot with Southwest Nigeria. |
| Matthew Orosz | PhD. Candidate Civil and Environmental Engineering | Concentrating Solar Thermal, Organic Rankine Cycle, Distributed Power for Developing Countries | Development of a small scale Solar ORC for the non-profit Solar Turbine Group, with field trials in Lesotho. Looking for UROPs and other interested collaborators. www.solarturbinegroup.org. |
| Nicolas Osouf | MIT Masters Student, Nuclear Science & Engineering and Technology & Policy Program | Climate change, nuclear science, energy economics and policy | Research on the economics and policy of climate change, thesis on the interaction between climate policies and the development of advanced nuclear technologies. |
| Geoffrey Oxberry | PhD '11, Chemical Engineering | Combustion chemistry modeling, atmospheric chemistry modeling | Optimal model reduction strategies for computationally efficient simulations of chemistry in spatially-varying environments; simulations of combustion in HCCI engines, laminar/turbulent flames, and atmospheric chemistry. |
| Scott Paap | MIT PhD Student, Chemical Engineering | Renewable energy technology and policy issues | Internship with Sumitomo-3M focused on micro-fuel cells |
| Kate Parrot | MIT MS Student, TPP | Renewables, energy efficiency, green buildings | Community energy efficiency (built a web-based tool that helps a community determine best bets for energy solutions that benefit the local economy and environment (http://www.energyfinder.org). Also some experience with energy savings projects in manufacturing and utilities. |
| Sara Passone | MIT Postdoc, Chemical Engineering Dept | Risk management in oil industry, carbon capture and sequesteration, energy supply related issues | Reseach: Devised a new integrated decision approach to manage technical and economical uncertainties and risks in oil reservoir projects. Pursued a new way of quantifying the value of information and data to better design optimal decisions |
| Brian Pate | MIT Postdoc, Materials Science | Primarily photovoltaics, also renewable energy in general | PhD in Inorganic Chemistry, synthesized and studied properties of porphyrins and porphyrazines (relatives of phtalocyanine), used in PV applications. Interested in performing future research in renewable energy area. |
| Giovanbattista Patalano | MIT PhD Student, Nuclear Engineering | Nuclear energy, solar, wind | PhD research on probabalistic risk analysis, worked at nuclear waste encapsulation plant and temporary repositories as project engineer. |
| Farzan Parsinejad | MIT Postdoctoral Research Associate | Renewable energy, fuel cells, batteries, reformed fuels, biofuels | Worked two years as an HVAC engineer. Received Ph.D. in combustion modeling and fundamental studies of reformed fuels and jet fuels. Current project: Modeling the transport of oil in an engine ring pack in order to develop the fundamental understanding of the complex interactions in the combined lubricant/additive, engine, and aftertreatment system. |
| Elan Pavlov | Postdoc media lab | Energy and carbon markets | Markets in general. |
| Matthew Pearlson | Renewable energy, alternative fuels, environmentally benign systems | Worked in Prof. Gang Chen's (ME) research group summer 2005. | |
| Keith Peltzman | Sloan MBA 2007 | Solar, wind, other renewables | Experience/engagement project analyizing feasibility of flexible film PV for DuPont. Developed entry strategies and potential partnerships. |
| John Pendray | MIT MS, TPP | Small scale biomass/energy conversions. | |
| Jaqueline Perez | MIT Undergraduate Student, Civil and Environmental Engineering | Renewables, Wind | Interned with the Massachusetts Executive Office of Environmental Affairs. |
| Lakshman Pernenkil | PhD MIT Chemical Engineering, MBA MIT Sloan School of Management 2008 | Oil (Enhanced Oil Recovery), BioFuels | Enhanced Oil Recovery project in Energy Ventures. |
| Andy Peterson | MIT PhD Student, Chemical Engineering | Biomass | Biomass to fuels: Conversion of biomass residuals to fuels (methane, hydrogen, petroleum substitutes) using hydrothermal chemical conversion (supercritical and subcritical water). Links to Changing World Technologies, Inc. and the Paul Scherrer Institute (Swiss National Lab). |
| Robert Petroski | PhD candidate, Nuclear Engineering | Nuclear power, energy development in Asia | Fast reactor design, advanced fuel cycle research |
| Vladimir Petrovic | MIT PhD Student, Chemistry | Energy Storage, Renewable Energy Sources, Sustainability | Involved in a project on energy storage devices based on carbon nanotubes, funded by the Deshponde Center |
| Kyriakos Pierrakakis | Masters in Technology Policy Class of 2009, Engineering Systems Division | Carbon sequestration, oil, coal and nuclear energy markets, along with energy & security. | Research pursued in the industrial organization of a carbon sequestration industry. |
| Pierre-Eloi Piganeau | Visiting MIT Graduate Student, ESD / Eleve Ingerieur a l'Ecole des Mines de Paris (France) | Transportation, process improvement, energy and climate change mitigation policies | CO2 emisson regulations for automobiles / study on Biofuels |
| Robert Pilawa | MIT PhD Student, EE | Power Electronics, Renewable Energy, highly efficient dc/dc power converters. | Experience with development of wind energy generators, efficient automotive power converters, high efficiency power electronics. Member of MIT Solar Car Team. |
| Edward Ponzi | Sloan Fellow | Waste energy conversion | Editor at IHS Energy covering all ex-soviet area in trade and technology worked for JKX Expro/Shell in oil and gas raised EBRD funding in Ukraine serve on non-profit for forestry management in Ukraine, energy and conservation usage |
| Clayton Poppe | MIT Leaders For Manufacturing program. MBA, SM Engineering Systems | Renewable energy, energy conservation, thermodynamic cycles | None |
| Tarek Rached | MIT MS Student, Technology and Policy | Working on the MIT-Portugal Project in the area of Sustainable Energy Systems, specifically going to be examining Urban Metabolism in Portugal. | |
| Radu Radatu | MIT MS Student, ME | Energy for developing countries, distributed electricity generation, sustainable energy | Experience with human powered devices, electricity generation |
| Patricio D. Ramirez-Munoz | MIT PhD Student, Chemical Engineering | Renewable energy, hydrogen/nuclear, energy in South America | Current research: dynamic simulation of nuclear hydrogen production systems. Simulating the dynamic interaction and energy transfer between nuclear reactor and hydrogen production plant. |
| Guruprakash Rangavittal | M Eng in Logistics and Supply Chain Management (ESD) | Energy Pricing and Trading & Sustainable Energy initiatives | Business Process Consulting experience for the Oil & Gas Sector. |
| Faaiza Rashid | MIT Masters Student, Technology and Policy Program | Energy infrastructure planning | Researcher for MIT Laboratory for Energy and the Environment, MIT Portugal Project. Researcher for the Energy Research Council, Lehigh University. |
| Sivananda Reddy | Masters from MIT, LEES; Currently working in intellectual property | Energy policy, renewable energy, emerging technologies addressing the energy problem. | Master's research with Prof. James Kurtley (LEES, MIT) on a novel hybrid generator technology for wind turbines. Further work with Steve Connors (LFEE, MIT) and researchers at RERL, UMass Amherst, in applying wind profiles to the novel hybrid generator. |
| Virginia Rich | MIT Graduate Student | Microbially generated energy discovery and bioengineering, "radical design efficiency", solar and other renewables | Currently not working on energy issues, but rather trying to understand pelagic marine microbial communities across space and time and their ties to biogeochemical cycling (responses to global change, etc.). May pursue a postdoc in microbially-mediated energy generation. |
| Dale Robinson | MIT UG, Chemical Engineering '10 | Carbon sequestration, energy policy, renewable energy | None. |
| Jason Roeder | MIT Sloan MBA Student '08, Vice President for the New England Energy Innovation Collaborative, MIT Sloan Energy and Environment Club |
Low-carbon energy sources, distribution and demand management. New business models. | Former energy/environment/transportation/housing policy advisor for Governor Mitt Romney (MA) and Associate Consultant at Bain and Company. Currently a VP in the Sloan Energy & Environment Club and the New England Energy Innovation Collaborative (NEEIC). MS Environmental Engineering and BS Chemistry, Stanford University. |
| Brad Rogers | SM Engineering Systems 2009, MBA Sloan 2009 | Renewable energy, distributed generation, developing countries | Owned design of steam reformer subsystem of a steam-reforming hydrogen generator which removes hydrogen from steam and natural gas, compresses it, and dispenses it to hydrogen fuel cells on forklifts. |
| Yang Ruan | MIT UG, EE | Lobbying for energy initiatives and policy making, spreading awareness and opening doors for people who want to make a difference. Power management in circuits. | Running/helping to run energy lectures as a member of the MIT Lecture Series Committee. |
| Christina Ruhfel | Development Associate, MIT's Office of Institutional Initiatives | Conservation, sustainability, public education, campus initiatives | Worked four years on a school-based water quality monitoring project with 100 K-12 schools in southeast Michigan. Though not energy- related it gave me experience working with teachers, volunteers, and sponsors. At MIT, I'm involved in assisting with the effort to fund- raise for the MITEI and I also serve on the Working Group Recycling Committee - a volunteer group that hopes to play a meaningful role in the Walk the Talk portion of the MITEI. |
| Sid Rupani | MIT PhD Student. Engineering Systems Division (ESD). | Areas of energy interest: Energy Infrastructure. Developing Countries. India. Energy Policy. Infrastructure Finance. Megacities. Transportation. | Energy-related experience / expertise / current projects: No prior experience in energy. |
| Michael Sable | PhD, International Development, MIT; MPP, Harvard | Project Finance, CleanTech, Industrial Biotechnology, Alternative energy infrastructure development in developing countries, small scale infrastructure finance | Laboratory for Energy and Environment Martin Fellow for Sustainability; Consultant, Appropriate Infrastructure Development Group |
| Gregory Sachs | MIT Sloan $ MS in ESD (SDM) / Program Manager and Founder of US Merchant Marine Academy Alternative Power Program | Development of distributed generation sustainable energy systems, including storage, distribution & transportation technologies | Renewable energy & EE Professor; Lead Engineer for Solar-Hydrogen Home & vehicle refueling project; Chief Technical Advisor, EmPowerCES LLC (solar installations & energy consulting); Nuclear Engineer (4yrs); Ongoing Proj: hydrogen/FC powered boat, USMMA biofuel generation, curriculum development. |
| Hemant Sahoo | MIT PhD Student, Chemical Engineering | Energy policy, economics of energy industry, sustainability | Current work is on sustainable chemistry, worked in petrochemical refinery previously. |
| Mohamad Hadi Y. Salam | S.M. in Mechanical Engineering | Energy & the Environment - Transportation - Automotive - Air - Marine - Oil & Gas | 8 week internship in LNG train Construction, Ras Laffan, Qatar. 1st International Petroleum Technology Conference, Nov '06 ,Doha, Qatar./ Internal Combustion Engines - Gas Turbines / Modification of a Stock Nissan Engine to run on E100 Ethanol, Testing & Optimization of Engine |
| Nathaniel Salazar | Electrical Engineering and Computer Science class 2011 | Wind energy, photovoltaics, energy storage | Did a wind energy research project |
| Chandrika Samarth | Sloan Fellow, Class of 2007 | Sustainability, Alternative energy sources for transportation. | Supply Chain Systems. |
| Chandrika Samarth | Sloan Fellow, Class of 2007 | Sustainability, Alternative energy sources for transportation. | Supply Chain Systems. |
| RJ Scaringe | ME PhD | automotive development/powertrain, stationary power systems, sustainable product design, building construction | > Development of ultra efficient diesel systems; advanced automotive powertrain developement |
| Katherine Schadel | Ph.D. Candidate, MIT Chemical Engineering | Photovoltaics | Developing computational models of polymer solar cell fabrication for thesis |
| Gary Schmirer | Sloan MBA '09; Currently a research associate at Cornerstone Research, an economic and financial consulting firm | Interested in alternative energy in solar, wind, and biofuels. | |
| Ilissa Schild | MBA, Class of 2009 | Interested in alternative energy technologies and practical solutions for both short term and long term sustainability. Would like to figure out a way to incorporate energy-related subjects into my future career plans. | Worked at GE Global Research for 4.5 years working on a variety of energy-related projects. Specifically I worked on a project researching hydrogen storage options for transportation, and another project developing IGCC (Integrated Gasification Combined Cycle, aka "Clean Coal") plant improvements. |
| AJ Schrauth | PhD Student, ME | General Curiosity, Fuel Cells, and Efficiency. | Current thesis work on fuel cell electrode design. |
| James Schwartz | MBA '08 @ Sloan | Renewable generation (wind, solar, geothermal, wave, tidal), alternative transportation fuels (bio-ethanol, bio-diesel), energy efficiency | 2001-2006: Manager of Wind System Sales and Business Development for Second Wind Inc. Second Wind designs and manufactures software systems and electronic components for utility-scale wind energy projects throughout the world. |
| Cecilia Scott | MIT Undergrad, Course 2A - Energy | Fuel cells, fusion, biodiesel, geothermal power. | Has worked in a biofuels lab and done research on fuel cell and clean coal technologies. |
| Indrajit Sen | MBA Class of 2009 | Sustainability / Energy efficiency / Clean, efficient public transportation. | None. |
| Thierry Senechal | MIT Sloan Fellow | Energy use and environmental policy. Market-based instruments. Renewable energy. | Worked several years on Gulf war natural resources damages and remediation programs. Involved in arbitration work in energy sector. |
| Jim Serdy | Research staff in Prof. Ely Sachs' PV lab | Solar PV. | > Helped develop Three Dimensional Printing project. I also worked with Ely to build a pilot production ribbon growth furnace at Arthur D. Little in '85-'86 following his invention of the ESR process. For about 10 years prior, I was DBA (self employed) proprietor of a one man company Solar Energy R & D. During that period I designed and installed large area building integrated solar thermal and photovoltaic systems in the New England area. |
| Gabriel Shapiro | MIT Sloan MBA Student, 2008 | Utility scale renewable energy projects, electricity transmission, alternative fuel/electric vehicles, hydrogen storage. | Former Director of Boston Chapter of Clean Power Now, a grassroots advocacy group for renewable energy projects which is primarily focused on supporting the proposed Cape Wind Nantucket Sound wind farm. |
| Shantnu Sharma | Sloan SDM Fellows program | Keeping my options open | Deep interest, but little expertise outside coursework. |
| Sarah Sheldon | MIT UG, 2008; Courses 8 and 22 | Nuclear power/fusion, renewable energy | None |
| Amanda Shing | BS Chemistry | All | None |
| Andrea Schmidt | MIT PhD Student, Physics | Nuclear fusion, solar power, hybrid vehicles, conservation/energy efficient buildings | Currently study magnetic confinement fusion Tokomaks at the Plasma Science and Fusion Center |
| Aaron Schmidt | MIT PhD Student, Mechanical Engineering | Renewable/sustainable energy | Micro/nanoscale energy transport. |
| Christian Schubert | MIT PhD Candidate, Biological Chemistry, Department of Chemistry | Design and implementation of sustainable local, national, and global energy policies; design and development of renewable energy resources; and potential of bio/nanotechnology to solve our global energy crisis | |
| Chris Sequeira | MIT TPP Student | Electricity generation from turbines, esp. wind power. Distributed power generation: village/community level electricity generation in developing countries; sustainable development | Have studied aerodynamics and control systems (applies to wind, gas, and hydroelectric turbines). Performing research in fuel efficiency for air transportation. |
| Gary Shu | Grad Student - MS TPP 2009 | Renewables, Electricity markets, International development | Experience: Electricity market consultant, Researcher in a) semiconductor lab, b) fusion lab, c) air pollution and environmental policy lab. |
| Adam Siegel | Sloan MBA, 2009 | Alternative energy and energy policy, commercializing MIT alternative energy research projects | No current experience |
| Froylan Sifuentes | MIT UG Student | Clean and renewable energy sources, plasma physics | |
| Meredith Silberstein | MIT PhD Student, Mechanical Engineering | Alternative energy sources, sustainability. | Researching mechanical durability of proton exchange membrane fuel cells. |
| Greg Singleton | MIT TPP Student | Energy in Context | Energy Club ERC White Paper Co-Chair |
| Jason Slagle | MIT Sloan SM Student in Engineering and Management / Manager, Advanced Technology Department, GE Aviation | Bringing new energy technologies to market, technology strategy, IP, management | 10 years experience in product development, designing and developing state-of-the-art turbomachinery and propulsion systems. Looking for a leadership position in an energy/aero startup, or alternately a small company interested in significant growth. |
| Ian Slattery | MIT MS Student, Chemical Engineering | Wide energy technology interests, specific interest in solar and nuclear power | Performed undergrad research on energy storage technologies for a solar hybrid electric bus. Also performed small project examining the energy output of various solar panels. |
| Fuxian Song | MIT PhD Student, Geophysics & Seismology | Oil and gas exploration and production especially reservoir characterization | Currently a PhD student in MIT's Earth Resources Lab working on reservoir characterization and seismic imaging. Expertise in acoustic wave propagation and imaging. |
| Debra Sorocco | Environmental, Health, and Safety Program Manager for MIT Division of Student Life | Social marketing and behavioral change for promoting energy conservation; researching methods for achieving carbon neutrality on campus; implementing renewable energy and sustainable resource use strategies in residential applications | Expertise: Master's in Environmental Management degree candidate at Harvard University, with a specialization in Sustainability. Experience: Past work included investigations into laboratory environmental performance improvement: environmentally-preferable purchasing, fume hood energy conservation, pollution prevention. etc. Current projects: Seeking opportunities for improved environmental performance within DSL- Housing, Athletics, CAC, Campus Dining, etc. |
| Miguel E. Sosa | Leaders for Manufacturing (LFM) Program: MBA, Sloan School of Management, MS, Engineering Systems | Renewable Energy, Sequestration technologies for CO2 and other greenhouse gases, Energy-efficient program | None. |
| G. Antonio Sosa-Pascual | MIT Sloan MBA Class of 2008 | Solar energy, biofuels and wind. Also interested in energy efficiency issues and the linkages between real estate and solar energy. | Currently starting a solar energy company that will provide services in tropical areas. Conducted consulting projects for a biofuels venture fund and valuation analysis for real estate private equity firm. At the moment, my industry expertise at MIT Sloan is the intersection between renewable energy and business, taking seminars and courses on energy strategy, technology and ventures. |
| Amine Berrada Sounni | 1st year MS in Mechanical Engineering | Solar PV and thermal, renewable, energy conversion, energy storage, energy technology application, energy policies. | Some experience in design of solar thermal HVAC system. Some experience in PV system design. : Research with Prof. Sachs with emphasis on PV. |
| Wayne Staats | MS, Mechanical Engineering | Hydrogen production and storage | Current RA working on the improvement of hydrogen liquefaction cycles |
| Addison Killean Stark | 1st year TPP Graduate Student (working in LFEE) | Biofuels as transportation fuel | None |
| Jonathan Steckel | MIT PhD Student | Renewable energy R&D, energy in context | Expert in organic and inorganic photovoltaics; currently performing PhD research in advanced PV materials (nanocrystals). |
| Kate Steel | MIT PhD Candidate, Engineering Systems Division | Electricity and energy development in Africa | MEng in development technologies, consulting experience in Kenya, South Africa, and Tanzania. |
| Phillip Stephenson | Degree pursuing (Department, U vs. UG) / Position pursuing Sloan MBA and in Entrepreneurship and Innovation sub-program | Primarily Solar, but also other alternative energy and storage technologies | Currently developing Solar Energy Service Provider Business Plan. |
| Robin Stewart | Ph.D., Computer Science | Renewable energy and political economicss | Web design |
| Mikala Streeter | MIT UG Student, EECS Minor: Applied International Studies | Alternative energy systems | Computer programming languages: Matlab, Scheme, Java |
| Laura Stupin | MIT Staff: D-Lab | Renewable energy for the developing world | None. |
| Masahiro Sugiyama | MIT Graduate Student: MS TPP / PhD EAPS | Climate change and sustainable energy | Expertise in the science of climate change. Interned with the U.S. Climate Change Science Program summer '05 |
| Jin Suntivich | Graduate Student in Materials Science and Engineering | Alternative energy sources and storages; energy entrepreneurship and public policy | Fuel cell, nanotechnology, and biotechnology research; Biotechnology entrepreneurship |
| Derek Supple | MIT TPP Student | Energy policy, system dynamics, energy efficiency, and renewable energy | Program analyst, Illinois Clean Energy Community Foundation; RA on Alt. Fuel Vehicles / Fueling Infrastructure Dynamics. |
| Rajat Suri | PhD/MBA program (w/ chemical engineering) | Interested in energy storage, energy efficiency and consumer energy products | Worked for Exxon Mobil, Ontario Power Generation. Research experience in cellulose ethanol and hybrid vehicle batteries. |
| Micah Sakiestewa Sze | Sloan MBA Student, 2008 | Solar / PV / Wind | Former chemical engineer for General Electric working on an energy-to-light advanced technology program, among other process & product development projects. |
| Kwan Chong Tan | TPP 2009 | Renewable Energies | CTL, Energy Efficient Supply Chains |
| Ming Tang | MIT PhD Student, EECS | General interest in energy field | Research novel thermoelectric materials |
| Ben Thomas | MIT MS Student, ME | Energy efficiency and renewable rnergy | |
| Kathreen Thome | MIT UG Student, Nuclear Eng / EAPS | Nuclear fusion, renewable energy, solar, nuclear proliferation, enviro effects of nuclear Technologies | Looking to learn. |
| Matthew Thomson | Sloan MBA Student | Solar | Some policy work at San Francisco City Hall |
| Ty Thomson | MIT PhD candidate, Biological Engineering | Renewable energy, biological energy and clean technologies | |
| Hildigunnur Thorsteinsson | MIT Technology and Policy Masters Candidate | Renewable Energy, specifically geothermal energy | Researching US geothermal policy and drilling costs. Worked as an engineer for over a year at geothermal solution provider in Iceland that has projects in the US, El Salvador, Hungary, Germany, China etc. |
| Kevin Tibbetts | PhD student in Materials Science and Engineering | Renewable Energy, Thermoelectrics | Current research in Lithium Batteries, Inorganic Nanotubes as energy storage materials |
| Payson Tucker | MIT Sloan MBA, 2009 | Oil & Gas Project Finance, Renewable Energy | 5 years experience as an Upstream Energy Insurance Broker (US and Lloyds Markets) |
| Catherine Tweedie | MIT PhD Student, Materials Sci/Eng | Energy policy, energy solutions for developing countries | Long time energy interest |
| Bryan Urban | MIT MS Student, ME | High-tech. renewable energy start-ups, esp. clean power generation and carbon sequesteration. Very interested in getting in touch with people with interesting business ideas in these areas | Energy analysis and heat transfer modelling; cusiness development/technical Analysis; current project involves developing a design tool for energy efficient buildings. |
| Ron Urwongse | MBA at the Sloan School of Management | Peak oil, making the transition from fossil fuels to renewables | Minimal amount of software development for oil companies, optimizing water injectors. VP in Sloan Energy Environment Club '06-'07. Very interested in peak oil and business opportunities that will arise with it. |
| Nitin Vaish | MBA - Class of 2009 @ MIT Sloan | Renewable resources, green chemicals | 6 years of experience in chemicals and related industries. Worked on numerous projects pertaining plastics industry & gained exposure to eco-imagination initiative at GE. |
| Andrea Vascellari | Here for one semester to take the classes of the MIT MBA program. | I'm interested in production of energy with the use of renewable sources. | I worked 4 years long in a biomass power plant as an apprentice engineer. I worked for project which were handling the construction of new power plants. |
| Vitaly Veksler | MIT Sloan MBA , 2009 | Alternative Energy, Energy Efficiency, Solid-State Lighting, Entrepreneurship in Alternative Energy | Researched Alternative Energy trends and identified investment opportunities at Fidelity Investments and State Street Research & Management during the previous 3 years. Analyzed strategies of major western energy companies in emerging markets for Cambridge Energy Research Associates (CERA). |
| Leanne Veldhuis | MIT Undergrad, Materials Science and Engineering '08 | General interest in energy | Interested in pursuing graduate studies relating to society and technology |
| Leandro Vetcher | MIT Sloan MBA Student '08 | Photosynthesis engineering, biocombustibles | Synthetic biology. |
| Arturs Vrublevskis | Ph.D. candidate in Plasma Physics | Fusion and nuclear | Basic familiarity with fusion from coursework. |
| Rebecca Waber | MIT Masters Student, Media Arts and Sciences (eRationality) | Behavioral aspects of energy usage/conservation, including diffusion of innovation within a population regarding better energy use practices or devices. | Background in psychology. Research group studies how people make decisions and especially how cognitive biases can lead to supoptimal decisions. Current project is looking at "smart" energy meters such as the commercially available "TED", which allows people to track their consumption in real time and therefore make more informed energy decisions. |
| Jeanine Wai | MIT Sloan School of Management, Class of 2009 | Petroleum and Alternatives | Worked at Chevron for 6 years as a process engineer for refining technologies and as a business analyst in marketing and new business development of base oil. |
| Brian Walsh | MIT Sloan MBA Student | CleanTech technologies and Renewables | Former director at U.S. Fuel Cell Council (www.usfcc.org). Expertise in global emerging fuel cell industry. |
| Jialan Wang | Financial economics PhD student, 2009 | Environmental economics, developing economies , behavior change, technological adoption | Campus behavior change initiatives, finance. |
| Lan Wang (Elaine) | Sloan 2009, E&I program | Alternative Fuel Energy | During 4 years management consulting experience, had several projects related with DME, Methanol and ethanol application in China. |
| Simon Watson | Pursuing a PhD in Mechanical Engineering. I am a research assistant and the Sloan Automotive Laboratory | Energy use in transportation. Electricity generation and distribution. | Diesel Engine Emissions and Efficiency. Nuclear power. My current project focuses on diesel engine after treatment. |
| Melissa Webster | MBA '09 at Sloan | Renewables | LEED Accredited Professional (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) |
| Ryan Weinberg | Harvard Business School, Class of 2008 | Interest and experience in Renewable Energies (Biofuel, Wind) | HBS Business & Environment Club |
| Danielle Wen | MIT UG Student, Economics | Energy Growth in China | None |
| Yonggang Wen | PhD Candidate (EECS) | Information about energy issues | None |
| Beth White | MIT Sloan '09 | Alternative/renewable energy, clean technology | None |
| Christopher Whitfield | MIT Undergraduate Student, Materials Science & Engineering | Photovoltaics, supercapacitors, hydrogen, energy management, demand response, fusion | UROP in Professor Angela Belcher's Biomolecular Materials Laboratory, EnerNOC intern for Summer 2007 |
| Craig Wildman | MIT PhD Student, Mechanical Engineering; MIT Alum: Mechanical Engineering, B.S. '03 / M.S. '05 | Transportation energy usage | Current research is on automotive engines. Expertise in automotive engines. Worked at UCSD with the Biofuels Action and Awareness Network (BAAN) to begin a program where one of the shuttle buses would run on 100% biodiesel for a year test project. |
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