Energy council membership and MITEI administration
Prof. Robert C. Armstrong, Director, MITEI
Robert C. Armstrong, Chevron Professor of Chemical Engineering, has been a
member of the MIT faculty since 1973 and served as head of the Department of
Chemical Engineering from1996 to 2007. His research interests include polymer
fluid mechanics, rheology of complex materials and energy. Armstrong has
received the Warren K. Lewis Award and the Professional Progress Award in
1992, both from the American Institute of Chemical Engineers, and the 2006
Bingham Medal from the Society of Rheology, which is devoted to the study of the science of
deformation and flow of matter.
Robert Stoner, Deputy Director, MITEI
Robert Stoner, a physicist and formerly an associate director at MITEI, also codirects the Tata Center for Technology and Design – an MIT graduate program
that trains future engineering and business leaders to invent technologies that
address unmet needs and challenges in India and elsewhere in the developing
world. Launched by MITEI last year, the Center’s mission is to apply technology
and management expertise to the challenges of the developing work in the areas of energy,
agriculture, water, health and housing. Stoner is the inventor of numerous optical and electronic
devices and has an extensive international business background, having held senior positions at
Intel and Zygo Corporations, and founded technology companies in the U.S. and Europe. He was
also an Adjunct Professor of Engineering at Brown University from 1995 through 2002. Immediately
prior to joining MIT, he served in senior roles at the Clinton Foundation in Africa and India.
Prof. Angela M. Belcher
Angela M. Belcher, the Germeshausen Professor of Materials Science and
Engineering and Biological Engineering and director of MIT's Biomolecular
Materials Laboratory, has been on the MIT faculty since 2002. She is a materials
chemist with expertise in biomaterials, biomolecular materials, organic-inorganic
interfaces and solid state chemistry. Her research focuses on understanding and
using the processes by which nature makes materials to design novel hybrid
organic-inorganic electronic and magnetic materials on new length scales.
Among her awards are the Presidential Early Career Award in Science and Engineering (2000) and
the Du Pont Young Investigators Award (1999). In 2004, she was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship
for her use of genetically engineered viruses to manufacture microelectronic devices. Belcher is
serving as the faculty co-chair of the Energy Initiative's Education Task Force.
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Prof. Vladimir Bulovic
Vladimir Bulović is the Professor of Electrical Engineering, leading the Organic
and Nanostructured Electronics laboratory, co-directing the MIT-ENI Solar
Frontiers Center and the MIT Solar Revolutions Project, and co-heading the MIT
Energy Studies program. In 2008 he was named the Class of 1960 Faculty
Fellow in recognition of his contribution to Energy Education. In 2009 he was named the Margaret
MacVicar Faculty Fellow, MITs highest teaching honor. Bulović’s research interests include studies of
physical properties of organic and organic/inorganic nanocrystal composite thin films and structures,
and development of novel optoelectronic nano-scale devices. He is an inventor of 45 U.S. patents in
areas of organic and nanostructured light emitting diodes, lasers, photovoltaics, photodetectors,
chemical sensors, and programmable memories, founding two start-up companies in these fields.
Prof. Bulović is a recipient of the U.S. Presidential Early Carrier Award for Scientist and Engineers,
the National Science Foundation Career Award, and was named to Technology Review TR100 List.
Prof. John M. Deutch
John M. Deutch is an Institute Professor at MIT, where he has been a faculty
member since 1970. At MIT, he has been chairman of the Department of
Chemistry, dean of science and provost. He has published widely in the area of
physical chemistry as well as on technology, energy, international security and
public policy issues. Deutch served in a number of positions for the U.S.
Department of Energy, including director of energy research, acting assistant
secretary for energy technology and undersecretary of the department. He served as director of the
Central Intelligence Agency from 1995 to 1996 and deputy secretary of defense from 1994 to 1995.
Prof. Leon R. Glicksman
Leon R. Glicksman, Professor of Building Technology and Mechanical
Engineering, has been on the MIT faculty since 1966 and has been the director
of MIT's Building Technology Program for 19 years. His research focuses on
energy-efficient, sustainable building technologies and designs, including natural
ventilation, software design tools and the integration of energy-efficient
measures with indoor air quality considerations. He is an expert on energyefficient urban housing for the developing world. Glicksman's awards include the
George Macomber Professorship of Construction Management, the Melville Medal and the Robert T.
Knapp Award, both from the American Society of Mechanical Engineers. Glicksman is serving as the
faculty co-chair of the Energy Initiative's Campus Energy Task Force.
Prof. Richard Schmalensee
Richard Schmalensee is the Howard W. Johnson Professor of Economics and
Management at MIT and Director of the MIT Center for Energy and Environmental
Policy Research (CEEPR). He served as the John C Head III Dean of the MIT Sloan
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School of Management from 1998 through 2007. He was a Member of the President's Council of
Economic Advisers from 1989 through 1991, where he was involved in the creation of the tradable
allowance program to deal with acid rain, and served as CEEPR Director from 1991 through 1999.
Professor Schmalensee's research centers on industrial organization economics and its applications,
with particular emphasis on antitrust, regulatory, and environmental policies. He is a Fellow of the
American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a member of the National Commission on Energy
Policy.
Martha Broad, Executive Director, MITEI
Martha Broad comes to MIT from the Massachusetts Clean Energy Center
(MassCEC), where as part of the senior management she oversaw programs and
studies that led to the commercialization of various clean energy technologies.
She also conceived and implemented the center’s framework for university
partnerships. With her help in leveraging universities and public and private
partners, MassCEC facilitated the state’s successful installation of hundreds of
megawatts of wind and solar systems. Broad is not new to MIT. In addition to working with MITEI
on joint initiatives, she was previously a research associate for the MIT Center for Coordination
Science.
Louis Carranza, Associate Director, MITEI
Louis Carranza was previously vice president for strategic development at IHS,
where he worked for 17 years. There, he served as executive director and cochair of CERAWeek – one of the top five corporate leader conferences in the
world – and conceived and implemented the CERAWeek partnership program.
He was also co-director of the IHS scenario planning initiative. Earlier at CERA,
Carranza was responsible for managing the firm’s global power practice.
Francis O’Sullivan, Director of Research and Analysis, MITEI
Francis O’Sullivan has been at MITEI since its early days, most recently serving
as the executive director of the Energy Sustainability Challenge and a lecturer at
the Sloan School of Management. His current research focuses on solar,
unconventional oil and gas resources and the energy-water nexus. O’Sullivan is
a member of the National Academies’ Roundtable on Science and Technology for
Sustainability. Previously, he worked for McKinsey & Company.
Amanda Graham, Director of Education Program and UROP Coordinator, MITEI
Amanda Graham, PhD is the director of education for MITEI. In this role she
guides the development and implementation of educational programs in energy
for undergraduate and graduate students and the MIT community. Graham
coordinated the development and launch of MIT’s Energy Studies Minor for
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undergraduates, the Institute’s first campus-wide multidisciplinary academic program. She
managed diverse educational programs for MIT’s Laboratory for Energy and the Environment from
2001 thru 2006.
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