Randall Field

As the director of research, Randall Field supervises the research performed by MITEI research scientists and their teams. He is also executive director of MIT’s Future of Fuels: Pathways to Sustainable Transportation study, a comprehensive investigation into the technologies and policies that will shape the role of low- and zero-carbon fuels in a deeply decarbonized global transportation system. He was previously executive director for MITEI’s Future Energy Systems Center. He was executive director of MIT’s fusion study, which released the 2024 report The role of fusion energy in a decarbonized electricity system, examining the global multidecadal dynamics of the energy transition and how fusion energy can contribute. 

Field was previously executive director for MITEI’s Future Energy Systems Center and Mobility Systems Center. He was also executive director for MIT’s Mobility of the Future study, which produced the Insights in the Future Mobility report covering global projections of alternative fuel vehicle fleets and energy consumption, deployment of charging and fueling infrastructure, attitudes towards mobility, and the impacts of innovative technologies and business models on urban mobility. As executive director for the Conversion Research Program at MIT for 10 years, Field worked with a multidisciplinary team of researchers to explore various conversion technologies for production of alternative fuels. Prior to MIT, Field worked for Aspen Technology for 23 years. Field received a SM in chemical engineering practice from MIT and a BS in chemical engineering from Caltech.