Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) is a federally funded research and development center in the hills of Berkeley,California,United States. Established in 1931 by the University of California (UC),the laboratory is sponsored by the United States Department of Energy and administered by the UC system. Ernest Lawrence,who won the Nobel prize for inventing the cyclotron,founded the Lab and served as its Director until his death in 1958. Located in the hills of Berkeley,California,the lab overlooks the campus of the University of California,Berkeley.
Owen Chamberlain was an American physicist who shared with Emilio Segrèthe Nobel Prize in Physics for the discovery of the antiproton,a sub-atomic antiparticle.
Paul McEuen is an American physicist. He received his B.S. in engineering physics at the University of Oklahoma (1985),and his Ph.D. in applied physics at Yale University (1991). After postdoctoral work at MIT (1990–1991),he became an assistant professor at the University of California,Berkeley. He moved to Cornell University in 2001,where he is currently the Goldwin Smith Professor of Physics. He is one of the experts on the electrical property of carbon nanotubes and is a member of the National Academy of Sciences.
ARPA-E,or Advanced Research Projects Agency–Energy is a United States government agency tasked with promoting and funding research and development of advanced energy technologies. It is modeled after the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA).
Netscape Communications Corp. v. Konrad,295 F.3d 1315,was a decision of the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. It affirmed that public use or commercialization of an invention more than one year prior to the filing date will cost the inventor his patent rights. The inventor in this case was Allan M. Konrad,a Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory employee who devised and implemented a method for accessing and searching data objects stored on a remote computer. Netscape moved to invalidate Konrad's patents in U.S. district court immediately after Konrad filed a patent infringement suit against Netscape customers. The district court concluded that Konrad's patents were invalid because they did not meet the public-use and on-sale bar eligibility criteria of 35 U.S.C. § 102b. In particular,the district court found that Konrad (1) placed his invention in the public domain by demonstrating it to others without a confidentiality agreement and (2) tried to sell it to other legal entities,both more than one year before he filed for the patent. The appeals court,upon review,affirmed the district court decision for the same reasons.
Jitendra Malik is an Indian-American academic who is the Arthur J. Chick Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences at the University of California,Berkeley. He is known for his research in computer vision.
Leon Jay "Lee" Schipper was a physicist and energy efficiency expert who authored more than 100 technical papers and a number of books on energy economics and transportation. He was "often a critic of the conventional wisdom." He was remembered by climate scientists as "a giant" who "was brilliant at articulating the connections among technology,economics,culture,policy and politics."
Matthew L. Scullin is an American materials scientist and businessman,best known for his work in sustainability related to methane emissions reduction from the oil &gas and agriculture industries. He was named Forbes 30 Under 30 in 2012 and has published over 50 papers and patents,garnering over 1700 citations and an h-index of 17.
Hui-Hai Liu is a hydrogeologist and reservoir engineer. He specializes in fracture hydrology,coupled hydrological and mechanical processes,physics and properties of subsurface multiphase flow and transport,and their applications in reservoir engineering and nuclear waste management.
Cheryl Martin is an American chemist. She is currently with Harwich Partners,a consulting firm she founded to work with public and private sector entities to identify critical business,technology,finance,regulatory and policy drivers that would accelerate adoption of new technologies into key markets. Until November 2018 she was a member of the Managing Board at the World Economic Forum where she was responsible for a range of industry and innovation initiatives. Prior to joining the Forum,Martin served as Acting Director for the Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy (ARPA-E),a United States Department of Energy initiative. In addition,she was the Deputy Director for Commercialization at the agency where she led ARPA-E's Technology-to-Market program,which helps breakthrough energy technologies succeed in the marketplace.
Sally M. Benson is a professor of energy engineering at Stanford University. In 2014,she was appointed as director of the Precourt Institute for Energy,the university's hub of energy research and education. Benson will continue on as director of Stanford's Global Climate and Energy Project (GCEP),a position she has had since 2007.
Evelyn Ning-Yi Wang is a mechanical engineer at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT),where she is the Ford Professor of Mechanical Engineering,director of the Device Research Laboratory,and chair of the Department of Mechanical Engineering. Topics in her research include heat transfer,ultrahydrophobicity,solar energy and nanostructures.
Asegun Sekou Famake Henry is a Robert N. Noyce Career Development Professor in mechanical engineering at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His research is focused on energy storage,heat transfer,and phonons.
Shanhui Fan is a Chinese-born American electrical engineer and physicist,with a focus on theoretical,computational and numerical aspects of photonics and electromagnetism. He is a professor of electrical engineering,and a professor of applied physics at Stanford University. He is the director of the Edward L. Ginzton Lab and Senior Fellow at the Precourt Institute for Energy.
Jennifer (Jen) Dionne is an American scientist and pioneer of nanophotonics. She is currently senior associate vice provost of research platforms at Stanford University,a Chan Zuckerberg Biohub Investigator,and an associate professor of materials science and engineering and by courtesy,of radiology. She serves as director of the Department of Energy's "Photonics at Thermodynamic Limits" Energy Frontier Research Center (EFRC),which strives to create thermodynamic engines driven by light,and she leads the "Extreme Scale Characterization" efforts of the DOE's Q-NEXT Quantum Science Center. She is also an associate editor of the ACS journal Nano Letters. Dionne's research develops optical methods to observe and control chemical and biological processes as they unfold with nanometer scale resolution,emphasizing critical challenges in global health and sustainability.
Yi Cui is a Chinese-American materials scientist,specializing in nanotechnology,and energy and environment-related research. Cui is the Fortinet Founders Professor of Materials Science and Engineering,and by courtesy,of Chemistry at Stanford University. He currently serves as the director of the Precourt Institute for Energy,succeeding Arun Majumdar and Sally Benson. He has been named the inaugural faculty director of the Sustainability Accelerator within the Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability. He also serves as a co-director of the Bay Area Photovoltaics Consortium,the Battery500 Consortium,and the StorageX initiative. He is a faculty member of Stanford Photon Science of SLAC,principal investigator at the Stanford Institute for Materials &Energy Sciences,and a senior fellow at Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment. He is an elected member of the National Academy of Sciences,and Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS),Materials Research Society (MRS),Electrochemical Society (ECS),and the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC). He has been one of the world's most-cited researchers and most influential scientific minds. He has published over 550 research papers with an H-index of 254. He currently serves as the Executive Editor of Nano Letters from ACS Publications.
Jayathi Y. Murthy is an Indian-American mechanical engineer who is the current President of Oregon State University. Previously,she was the Ronald and Valerie Sugar Dean of the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science at the University of California,Los Angeles where she was also a distinguished professor. Her research interests include macroelectronics,computational fluid dynamics,heat transfer,and phase-change materials. Murthy has served on the Engineering and Computer Science jury for the Infosys Prize since 2018.
Jill M. Hruby is an American mechanical engineer and government official. Since July 26,2021,Hruby has served as Under Secretary of Energy for Nuclear Security and Administrator of the National Nuclear Security Administration,a post subject to Senate confirmation. Jill Hruby made history as the first woman to ever head a U.S. nuclear weapons lab,serving as director of Sandia National Laboratories from 2015-2017.
Stacey Angela Dixon is an American mechanical engineer and intelligence official and Principal Deputy Director of National Intelligence in the Biden Administration since August 4,2021.
The Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability is a school at Stanford University focusing on climate change and sustainability. It opened on September 1,2022,as Stanford's first new school since the School of Humanities and Sciences in 1948. It is considered one of the largest climate change–related schools in the United States.
