CERAWK201442816-06MAR2014-OV-FONG.JPG - A Glimpse Over the Horizon: Energy Game Changers from MIT
Insights by some of the world’s leading energy technologists on the frontiers of innovation, transformation, systems and tools that will reshape the energy future.
Robert Armstrong – Co-founder with Ernie Moniz of the MIT Energy Initiative, Armstrong served as head of MIT’s Department of Chemical Engineering from 1996 to 2007. His research interests include polymer fluid mechanics, rheology of complex materials, and energy.
Angela Belcher – Brings together the fields of materials chemistry, electrical engineering and molecular biology to engineer viruses that can create batteries and clean energy sources. In 2007, Time magazine named Belcher a climate-change hero, and in 2006 she was named Scientific American’s Research Leader of the Year.
Vladimir Bulovic – Recently named the co-director of MIT’s new Innovation Initiative, Bulovic is also MIT School of Engineering’s Associate Dean for Innovation A practicing entrepreneur, Bulovi? is a founder of QD Vision, Inc., which is manufacturing quantum dot optoelectronic components, and Kateeva, Inc., which is focused on the development of printed organic electronics. He also collaborated in the founding of Ubiquitous Energy, Inc., which is developing nanostructured solar technologies.
Donald Sadoway – Widely recognized as a leading battery and energy storage expert, Sadoway was named one of Time magazine’s 100 most influential people in the world in 2012. He is the co-founder of two companies: Ambri, Inc. (formerly Liquid Metal Battery Corporation), which is developing new battery technology for grid-scale electricity storage, and Boston Electrometallurgical Corp., which is developing molten oxide electrolysis for the production of metals.
Alex Slocum – Slocum’s research focuses on making dominantly mechanical devices achieve higher levels of performance for less cost. His design efforts have yielded over 7 dozen patents, numerous design awards and an important precision alignment standard for the semiconductor industry. One example of his work includes a utility-scale energy storage system based on large underwater concrete spheres and floating wind turbines. He has also created devices related to biotechnology, robotics and computer science.
• Robert Armstrong, Director, MIT Energy Initiative
• Angela Belcher, W.M. Keck Professor of Energy, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• Vladimir Bulovic, Fariborz Maseeh Professor of Emerging Technology and the MIT School of Engineering’s Associate Dean for Innovation, MIT Energy Initiative
• Donald Sadoway, John F. Elliott Professor of Materials Chemistry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• Alexander Slocum, Neil and Jane Pappalardo Professor of Mechanical Engineering, MacVicar Faculty Fellow, MIT Energy Initiative
• Daniel Yergin (Chair), Vice Chairman, IHS, CERAWeek Conference Chairman
- CERAWeek2014 IHS Energy executive conference in Houston, TX, on Thursday, March 6, 2014. Photo by Gary Fong/Genesis Photos
