Low-Carbon Energy Economy Workshop
May 26-27, 2015
Tang Center (E51-345)
MIT Campus, Cambridge, MA
PARTICIPANT LIST
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Robert Armstrong, MIT Energy Initiative
François Gendre, French Embassy
Francois Auzerais, Schlumberger
Michael Golay, MIT
Aaron Bloom, National Renewable Energy
Laboratory
William Green, MIT
Steve Hamburg, EDF
Richard Boardman, Idaho National Laboratory
James Hansen, Columbia University
Audun Botterud, Argonne National
Laboratory/MITEI
Ting He, Idaho National Laboratory
Shanon Bragg-Sitton, Idaho National Laboratory
Howard J. Herzog, MIT
Stephen Brick, Clean Air Task Force
Edward Hoffman, Argonne National Laboratory
Robert J. Budnitz, Lawrence Berkeley National
Laboratory
Rob Hovsapian, Idaho National Laboratory
Eric Ingersoll, Energy Options Network
Matthew Bunn, Harvard Kennedy School
Mujid Kazimi, MIT
Jacopo Buongiorno, MIT
Scott Kemp, MIT
Yinan Cai, MIT
Christopher Knittel, MIT
Frank Carré, CEA
Ross Koningstein, Google Inc.
Andrew Cockerill, BP
John Kotek, DOE
Bruce E. Dale, Michigan State University
Henry Lee, Harvard
Francisco de la Chesnaye, Electric Power
Research Institute
Jane Long
Marvin Fertel, Nuclear Energy Institute
Lee Lynd, Dartmouth College
Noah Fischer, MIT
Peter B. Lyons, DOE
Sarah Fletcher, MIT
Michael V. McMahon, AREVA
Charles Forsberg, Massachusetts Institute of
Technology
Nicole Mermilliod, CEA-DRT
Claude Nahon, EDF France
Henri Safa, I2EN
William J. Nuttall, The Open University, UK
Jayant Sathaye, LBNL and UC Berkeley
Naomi Oreskes, Harvard University
Erich Schneider, The University of Texas at Austin
Michele Ostraat, Aramco
Dan Schrag, Harvard University
Francis O'Sullivan, MIT Energy Initiative
Phil Sharp, Resources for the Future
Michael A. Pacheco, National Renewable Energy
Laboratory
Robert Stoner, MIT Energy Initiative
John Pierce, BP
Sara Tyler, Shell International Exploration and
Production Co.
Ronald G. Prinn, MIT
John C. Wagner, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Everett L. Redmond II, Nuclear Energy Institute
Matthew Wald, Nuclear Energy Institute
John Reilly, MIT
Jurgen Weiss, The Brattle Group
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Robert C. Armstrong
MIT Energy Initiative Director
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 from 1996 to 2007. His research
interests include polymer fluid mechanics, rheology of complex materials and energy. In 2008, Armstrong was
elected into the National Academy of Engineering for conducting outstanding research on non-Newtonian fluid
mechanics, co-authoring landmark textbooks, and providing leadership in chemical engineering education.
Armstrong 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.
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Aaron Bloom
National Renewable Energy Laboratory
Aaron Bloom manages a NREL’s team of electricity system modelers. He is an expert in electricity market
design and ratemaking. His work at NREL focuses on capacity expansion, system planning, and grid
operations. Prior to joining NREL, Mr. Bloom worked on market design, ancillary services, renewable
integration, and reliability standards at the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission. Mr. Bloom was a principal
contributor to FERC Order No. 764 on Integrating Variable Energy Resources and played an active role in
nearly 100 proceedings regarding organized and vertically integrated markets. In his free time, he enjoys
sailboat racing, mountain biking, and gardening with his two children.
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Audun Botterud
Argonne National Laboratory
Audun Botterud has 15 years of experience with modeling and analysis of electricity markets and renewable
energy in the United States and Europe. He is a member of the research staff at Argonne National Laboratory
(since 2005) where he leads the Energy Decision Analytics Group within the Center for Energy, Environmental,
and Economic Systems Analysis (CEEESA). He is currently also a visiting scholar at the MIT Energy Initiative
in Cambridge, MA. He received his M.Sc. in Industrial Engineering (1997) and his Ph.D. in Electrical Power
Engineering (2004), both from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology. He was previously with
SINTEF Energy Research in Trondheim, Norway. Dr. Botterud is the principal investigator for projects related
to electricity markets, grid integration of renewable energy, and energy storage and has published numerous
articles on these topics in leading academic journals. He is the co-chair for the IEEE Task Force on Bulk Power
System Operations with Variable Generation.
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Robert J. Budnitz
University of California's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Dr. Robert J. Budnitz has been involved with nuclear-reactor safety and radioactive-waste safety for many
years. He is on the scientific staff at the University of California's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory,
where he works on nuclear power safety and security and radioactive-waste management. From 2002 to 2007
he was at UC’s Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, during which period he worked on a two-year special
assignment (late 2002 to late 2004) in Washington to assist the Director of DOE's Office of Civilian Radioactive
Waste Management to develop a new Science & Technology Program. Prior to joining LLNL in 2002, he ran a
one-person consulting practice in Berkeley CA for over two decades. In 1978-1980, he was a senior officer on
the staff of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, serving as Deputy Director and then Director of the NRC
Office of Nuclear Regulatory Research. In this two-year period, Dr. Budnitz was responsible for formulating
and guiding the large NRC research program, that constituted over $200 million/year at that time. His
responsibilities included assuring that all major areas of reactor-safety research, waste-management research,
and fuel-cycle-safety research necessary to serve the mission of NRC were adequately supported. From
1967-1978, he was on the staff of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, serving in 1975-1978 as
Associate Director of LBNL and Head of LBNL's Energy & Environment Division. During this period, the
programs under his direction were in a large mix of diverse areas relevant to DOE, including energy-efficiency,
deep-geologic radioactive waste disposal, solar energy, geothermal energy, fusion energy, transportation
technology, chemical-engineering for alternate fuels, environmental instrumentation, air-pollution phenomena,
and energy policy analysis. He earned a Ph.D. in experimental physics from Harvard in 1968.
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Matthew Bunn
Professor, Harvard Kennedy School
Matthew Bunn is a Professor of Practice at the Harvard Kennedy School. His research interests include
nuclear theft and terrorism; nuclear proliferation and measures to control it; the future of nuclear energy and its
fuel cycle; and innovation in energy technologies. Before coming to Harvard, Bunn served as an adviser to the
White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, as a study director at the National Academy of
Sciences, and as editor of Arms Control Today. He is the author or co-author of more than 20 books or major
technical reports (most recently Transforming U.S. Energy Innovation), and over a hundred articles in
publications ranging from Science to The Washington Post.
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Jacopo Buongiorno
Professor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Jacopo Buongiorno (Nuc Eng PhD, MIT, 2000; Nuc Eng BS, Polytechnic of Milan, 1996) is Professor of
Nuclear Science and Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), where he teaches
undergraduate and graduate courses in thermo-fluids engineering and nuclear reactor engineering. His areas
of technical expertise and research interest are reactor design and safety, two-phase flow and heat transfer in
advanced nuclear systems, and nanofluid technology. For his work in these areas and his teaching at MIT
Prof. Buongiorno won several awards, including, recently, the MacVicar Faculty Award (MIT, 2014), and the
Landis Young Member Engineering Achievement Award (American Nuclear Society, 2011). Professor
Buongiorno is a member of the American Nuclear Society (ANS) and the American Society of Mechanical
Engineers (ASME); Co-Director of the Reactor Technology Course for Nuclear Utility Executives, which is
offered jointly by MIT and the Institute of Nuclear Power Operations (INPO); and a consultant for the nuclear
industry (AREVA, DCNS, B&W, Westinghouse, Hatch, South Texas Project) in the area of reactor thermal
hydraulics and safety. He is on the accrediting board of INPO’s National Academy of Nuclear Training
(NANT), and served on the ANS Special Committee on Fukushima. From 2000 to 2004 he worked as a
research scientist at the Idaho National Laboratory (INL), where he led the DOE’s Generation-IV program for
the development of the supercritical water cooled reactor in the United States.
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Frank Carré
Scientific Director, Nuclear Energy Division, French Atomic Energy Commission
Frank Carré joined CEA in 1976 and contributed through varied managerial positions to studies on advanced
nuclear systems. From 2001 to 2009 he acted as Program Director for Future Nuclear Energy Systems and
contributed to shape national R&D programs and international collaborations on fast neutron reactors with
advanced fuel cycles and high temperature reactors for the cogeneration of process heat and hydrogen. Since
August 2009 he is Scientific Director of CEA's Nuclear Energy Division and holds a Lecturing and Research
Chair on “Sustainable Energies” at the Ecole Polytechnique. Since 2012, he is Scientific Counsellor to the High
Commissioner for Atomic Energy.
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Bruce E. Dale
University Distinguished Professor of Chemical Engineering at Michigan State University
Professor Dale received his bachelors (summa cum laude) and MS degrees in chemical engineering from the
University of Arizona in Tucson, Arizona and the doctorate from Purdue University in 1979 under the direction
of Dr. George T. Tsao, one of the early pioneers in biochemical engineering and cellulosic biofuels. Dale is
currently University Distinguished Professor of Chemical Engineering at Michigan State University. Professor
Dale also serves as Editor in Chief and Founding Editor of Biofuels, Bioproducts and Biorefining. He won the
Charles D. Scott Award (1996) for contributions to the use of biotechnology to produce fuels and chemicals
and the Sterling Hendricks Award (2007) for contributions to agriculture. Dale was named a Fellow of the
American Institute of Chemical Engineers in 2011. Also in 2011 he received the Award of Excellence of the
Fuel Ethanol Workshop. At number 14, Professor Dale is the highest-ranked academic in the Top 100 People
in Bioenergy (Bioenergy Digest). He has published over 250 journal papers and has received 42 US and
international patents. His research interests are cellulosic biofuels, the relationship between energy and
societal wealth, life cycle assessment and the design of integrated agroecosystems for producing sustainable
fuels, chemicals, food and animal feed.
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Charles Forsberg
Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Dr. Charles Forsberg is the Director and principle investigator of the High-Temperature Salt-Cooled Reactor
Project and University Lead for the Idaho National Laboratory Institute for Nuclear Energy and Science
(INEST) Nuclear Hybrid Energy Systems program. He is one of several co-principle investigators for the
Concentrated Solar Power on Demand (CSPonD) project. He earlier was the Executive Director of the MIT
Nuclear Fuel Cycle Study. Before joining MIT, he was a Corporate Fellow at Oak Ridge National Laboratory.
He is a Fellow of the American Nuclear Society, a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of
Science, and recipient of the 2005 Robert E. Wilson Award from the American Institute of Chemical Engineers
for outstanding chemical engineering contributions to nuclear energy, including his work in hydrogen
production and nuclear-renewable energy futures. He received the American Nuclear Society special award
for innovative nuclear reactor design on salt-cooled reactors and the 2014 Seaborg Award. Dr. Forsberg
earned his bachelor's degree in chemical engineering from the University of Minnesota and his doctorate in
Nuclear Engineering from MIT. He has been awarded 11 patents and has published over 200 papers.
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François Gendre
Dr. François Gendre is Attaché for Biotechnology within the French Embassy in Washington DC, with the
objective of a better understanding of the US ecosystem and fruitful scientific collaboration between the United
States and France. Dr. Gendre has more than 35 years of expertise in the fields of biotechnology: first in the
field of Food Business, then health, and finally bioenergy. He has an M.S. in molecular biology, an M.S. in
human biology and a PhD in molecular immunology. After a Post Doc at the CNRS, he joined Lesaffre as Head
of Molecular Biology, where he realized the first transgenic industrial yeast in 1986. He spent 14 years with
Danone, rising to SVP for Life Science. He then spent two years as the SVP Business Development for the
Pasteur Institute. He has founded two biology start-ups, one of which is still active. In 2010 he joined the CEA
as Counselor for the Life Science Division. In 2011 he joined the Strategic Planning Division where in was in
charge of the biotechnology sector with a focus on bioenergy and synthetic biology in a mastered CO2 cycle.
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Michael Golay
Professor of Nuclear Science and Engineering, MIT
Professor Golay has recently focused his professional research activity and teaching on nuclear proliferation
risk assessment, risk-informed assessment of regulatory and design requirements for future nuclear power
systems, and formulation of a method for evaluation of reactor/fuel cycle nuclear weapons proliferation
resistance. His teaching activities have reinforced these activities by virtue of courses on sustainable energy,
and probability and its applications to reliability, quality control and risk assessment. His recent service is as a
member of the DOE’s Proliferation Resistance and Physical Protection Experts Group (PRPP) and of the Task
Force on Technological Opportunities to Increase the Proliferation Resistance of Global Civilian Nuclear Power
Systems (TOPS) of DOE’s Nuclear Energy Research Advisory Council. He has also advised the U.S. Dept. of
Energy regarding their Yucca Mountain Nuclear Waste Repository and severed on the 4th Intergovernmental
Program on Climate Change. He has mentored over 110 graduate students, including more than 30 PhDs. He
is founder or co-founder of over 12 academic and professional courses on subjects including energyenvironmental policy, and nuclear power management and safety.
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William H. Green
Hoyt C. Hottel Professor of Chemical Engineering, mIT
William H. Green is the Hoyt C. Hottel Professor in MIT’s Dept. of Chemical Engineering. He is a world leader
in predictive chemical kinetics, and is involved in most of the fuel/combustion chemistry research at MIT. Green
earned his B.A. with Highest Honors at Swarthmore College in 1983, and his PhD in Physical Chemistry at the
University of California, Berkeley in 1988. He was the Charles & Katherine Darwin Research Fellow at Darwin
College, Cambridge University 1989-1990, and did postdoctoral research with Marsha Lester at Penn in 1991.
He was a Principal Investigator at Exxon Research & Engineering for 6 years before joining the MIT faculty in
1997. He was the Editor of the International Journal of Chemical Kinetics for 5 years, and recently stepped
down as Executive Officer of the MIT Department of Chemical Engineering. He has written 190 journal articles,
and his research has won several national awards, including the ACS Glenn Award in Fuel Chemistry. His
recent work includes a detailed study of isobutanol combustion chemistry demonstrating the accuracy of
predictive chemistry, the invention of a CO2 sorbent tailored to IGCC conditions, and a techno-economic study
showing how the USA could reduce CO2 emissions and save money by updating its gasoline “octane” rating
system.
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James Hansen
Adjunct Professor at Columbia University’s Earth Institute
Dr. James Hansen, formerly Director of the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, is an Adjunct Professor
at Columbia University’s Earth Institute, where he directs a program in Climate Science, Awareness and
Solutions. Dr. Hansen is best known for his testimony on climate change in the 1980s that helped raise
awareness of global warming. He is a member of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences and has received
numerous awards including the Sophie and Blue Planet Prizes. Dr. Hansen is recognized for speaking truth to
power and for outlining actions needed to protect the future of young people and all species on the planet.
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Ting He
Fellow at Idaho National Laboratory
Dr. Ting He is a Fellow at Idaho National Laboratory. An electrochemist, he has more than 20 years of
experience in technical and leadership positions within the oil and gas, energy, automotive, and academic
sectors. Prior to joining Idaho National Laboratory, Dr. He served Phillips 66 and ConocoPhillips several roles
as Senior Principal Scientist of Sustainability Technologies, Director of Alternative Energy, and Vice President
of Energy Technologies LLC. He initiated and established alternative energy programs in solid oxide fuel cells,
organic photovoltaics, low-carbon hydrogen and nanotechnology. From 2000 to 2010, he was Principal
Scientist and Large Project Leader at Honda, leading Honda’s energy related R&D programs in polymer
electrolyte membrane fuel cells, thin film solar cells, batteries and solar fuels in the United States. Dr. He
received his PhD in Physical and Electrochemistry from the Leibniz Universität Hannover in Germany. His
research interests include the application of electrochemistry and nanotechnology in clean energy and
transportation sciences including energy conversion, storage and efficient utilization. He is the inventor and
author of over 120 patents and referred journal articles.
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Howard J. Herzog
Senior Research Engineer, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Energy Initiative
Howard J. Herzog is a senior research engineer in the MIT Energy Initiative. He received his undergraduate
and graduate education in chemical engineering at MIT. He has industrial experience with Eastman Kodak
(1972-1974), Stone & Webster (1975-1978), Aspen Technology (1981-1986), and Spectra Physics (19861988). Since 1989, he has been on the MIT research staff, where he works on sponsored research involving
energy and the environment, with an emphasis on greenhouse gas mitigation technologies. He was a
Coordinating Lead Author for the IPCC Special Report on Carbon Dioxide Capture and Storage (released
September, 2005), a co-author on the MIT Future of Coal Study (released March 2007), and a US delegate to
the Carbon Sequestration Leadership Forum's Technical Group (June 2003-September 2007). He was
awarded the 2010 Greenman Award by the IEAGHG “in recognition of contributions made to the development
of greenhouse gas control technologies”.
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Edward Hoffman
Nuclear Engineer Division of Argonne National Laboratory
Dr. Edward Hoffman is a nuclear engineer and the manager of the Reactor and Fuel Cycle Analysis Section of
the Nuclear Engineer Division of Argonne National Laboratory. His research has spanned a broad range of
nuclear fuel cycle and reactor physics related areas. Hoffman currently is working on hybrid nuclear energy
systems and analysis of transition to future nuclear energy systems. For hybrid nuclear energy systems, his
focus is the economic drivers to inform on the desirable performance characteristics and design constraints to
be incorporated into the development of advanced reactor technologies. For the transition analysis, his focus is
on the economics and performance of transition, and development of methods to evaluate the performance
and compare systems with complex time-dependent behavior over many areas of potential interest to decision
makers. Past research has focused on system analysis of nuclear fuel cycles, transmutation performance of
various reactor concepts, performance of fast reactors as a function of conversion ratio, transmutation
performance of varying recycle schemes, high-temperature gas cooled fast reactors, and cost of alternative
nuclear fuel cycles. Hoffman attended the Pennsylvania State University where he received a B.S. in Nuclear
Engineering. He attended the Georgia Institute of Technology where he received a M.S. in Health Physics, a
M.S. in Nuclear Engineering, and Ph.D. in Nuclear Engineering with a minor in Environmental Engineering
where his research was on the Transmutation of Nuclear Waste in a Tokomak Fusion Reactor System.
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Chris Knittel
William Barton Rogers Professor of Energy and Professor of Applied Economics, MIT
Christopher Knittel is the William Barton Rogers Professor of Energy Economics in the Sloan School of
Management, the Co-Director of the Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research at MIT, and a
member of the MITEI Energy Council. He joined the faculty at MIT in 2011, having taught previously at UC
Davis and Boston University.
His research focuses on environmental economics, industrial organization, and applied econometrics. He is a
Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research in the Productivity, Industrial Organization,
and Energy and Environmental Economics groups.
Professor Knittel is an associate editor of the American Economic Journal -- Economic Policy, the Journal of
Industrial Economics, the Journal of Transportation Economics and Policy, and the Journal of Energy Markets.
His research has appeared in the American Economic Review, the American Economic Journal, the Review of
Economics and Statistics, the Journal of Industrial Economics, the Energy Journal, and other academic
journals.
Professor Knittel received his BA in economics and political science from the California State University,
Stanislaus in 1994 (summa cum laude), an MA in economics from UC Davis in 1996, and a PhD in economics
from UC Berkeley in 1999.
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Jane Long
Dr. Long recently retired from Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory where she was the Principal Associate
Director at Large, Fellow in the LLNL Center for Global Strategic Research and the Associate Director for
Energy and Environment. Her current work involves strategies for dealing with climate change including
reinvention of the energy system, geoengineering and adaptation. She is currently a senior contributing
scientist for the Environmental Defense Fund, Visiting Researcher at UC Berkeley, Co-chair of the Task Force
on Geoengineering for the Bipartisan Policy Center and chairman of the California Council on Science and
Technology’s California’s Energy Future committee. She is also the Chairman and lead scientist for the
CCST’s advisory committees for the assessment of hydraulic fracturing in California. Dr. Long was the Dean of
the Mackay School of Mines, University of Nevada, Reno and Department Chair for the Energy Resources
Technology and the Environmental Research Departments at Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. She holds a
bachelor’s degree in engineering from Brown University and Masters and PhD from U. C. Berkeley. Dr. Long is
a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and was named Alum of the Year in
2012 by the Brown University School of Engineering. Dr. Long is an Associate of the National Academies of
Science (NAS) and a Senior Fellow and council member of the California Council on Science and Technology
(CCST) and the Breakthrough Institute. She serves on the board of directors for the Clean Air Task Force and
the Center for Sustainable Shale Development.
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Peter B. Lyons
Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Office of Nuclear Energy
Dr. Peter B. Lyons was confirmed as the Assistant Secretary for Nuclear Energy on April 14, 2011 after serving
as the Acting Assistant Secretary since November 2010. Dr. Lyons was appointed to his previous role as
Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Office of Nuclear Energy (NE) in September 2009. Under Dr.
Lyons’ leadership, the Office has made great strides in incorporating modeling and simulation into all programs
through the Nuclear Energy Advanced Modeling and Simulation program and the Energy Innovation Hub. He
focused on management of used fuel by contributing to the development of the Administration’s Strategy for
the Management and Disposal of Used Nuclear Fuel and High-Level Radioactive Waste. In addition, NE
established the Small Modular Reactor Licensing Technical Support program for a new generation of safe,
reliable, low-carbon nuclear energy technology. And he championed the Nuclear Energy University Program,
which has successfully supported U.S. universities in preparing the next generation of nuclear engineering
leaders.Prior to joining DOE, Dr. Lyons was sworn in as a Commissioner of the Nuclear Regulatory
Commission on January 25, 2005 and served until his term ended on June 30, 2009. At the NRC, Dr. Lyons
focused on the safety of operating reactors, even as new reactor licensing and possible construction emerged.
He was a consistent voice for improving partnerships with international regulatory agencies. He emphasized
active and forward-looking research programs to support sound regulatory decisions, address current issues
and anticipate future ones. He was also a strong proponent of science and technology education. Before
becoming a Commissioner, Dr. Lyons served as Science Advisor on the staff of U.S. Senator Pete Domenici
and the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources where he focused on military and civilian uses of
nuclear technology from 1997 to 2005. From 1969 to 1996, Dr. Lyons worked at the Los Alamos National
Laboratory where he served as Director for Industrial Partnerships, Deputy Associate Director for Energy and
Environment, and Deputy Associate Director-Defense Research and Applications. While at Los Alamos, he
spent over a decade supporting nuclear test diagnostics. Dr. Lyons has published more than 100 technical
papers, holds three patents related to fiber optics and plasma diagnostics, and served as chairman of the
NATO Nuclear Effects Task Group for five years. He received his doctorate in nuclear astrophysics from the
California Institute of Technology in 1969 and earned his undergraduate degree in physics and mathematics
from the University of Arizona in 1964. Dr. Lyons is a Fellow of the American Nuclear Society, a Fellow of the
American Physical Society, and was elected to 16 years on the Los Alamos School Board. Dr. Lyons grew up
in Nevada and is a resident of Washington, DC.
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Michael V. McMahon
Senior Vice President, AREVA
Dr. Michael McMahon is a senior executive at Columbia, MD based AREVA TN, a division of AREVA Inc. and
a leading provider of dry storage and transportation equipment for the nuclear energy industry. He was
previously based in France and served as the U.S. director of international projects for AREVA’s Back End
Business Group, which includes the group’s used fuel management, recycling, transportation and
decommissioning activities. Dr. McMahon has more than twenty-five years of professional engineering,
leadership, project management, sales, and business development experience in the commercial nuclear
industry and the nuclear navy. Before his most recent assignment in France, he served in the U.S. as
AREVA’s Key Account Manager (KAM) for Constellation Energy. Prior to that he had served in positions of
increasing responsibility in the engineering and business development organizations of AREVA and its
predecessor companies, including the former Duke Engineering & Services (DE&S). Before joining DE&S, Dr.
McMahon was an associate at the management consulting firm McKinsey & Company. He spent the first six
years of his professional career in the Nuclear Navy serving on nuclear-powered fast attack submarines. He is
a graduate of the United States Naval Academy and has also earned a doctorate in nuclear engineering and
an MBA from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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William J. Nuttall
Professor of Energy in the Department of Engineering and Innovation at The Open University
Dr William J. Nuttall is Professor of Energy in the Department of Engineering and Innovation at The Open
University, based in Milton Keynes, UK. Professor Nuttall’s career has taken him from experimental physics
(PhD MIT USA 1993) to technology policy with an emphasis on nuclear energy policy. His journey to MIT was
supported by a Fulbright Scholarship (post-graduate student award 1987-1988) and his PhD was supervised
by Professor Robert J. Birgeneau, then Dean of Science. Professor Nuttall is author of Nuclear Renaissance Technologies and Policies for the Future of Nuclear Power (Taylor and Francis, 2005), he is co-editor of
several other books and journal special issues and he is an author of more than sixty journal articles. In 2011
Professor Nuttall was elected Fellow of the Institute of Physics. In 2012 and early 2013 Professor Nuttall
served as one of eight experts advising the European Commission on the future of nuclear fission research
and training in Europe. He has on several occasions presented oral evidence to the UK Parliament and once
appeared before a committee of the French Senate. In March 2015 he delivered the annual Clerk-Maxwell
lecture of the Institution of Engineering and Technology in the Royal Institution, London. Professor Nuttall
serves on the Nuclear Power Committee of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers; he is a member of the
Editorial Board of the Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers – Energy; he is a Fellow of Hughes Hall
a college of the University of Cambridge and he is an Adjunct Professor of the City University of Hong Kong.
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Naomi Oreskes
Professor of the History of Science and Affiliated Professor of Earth and Environmental Sciences at
Harvard University
Naomi Oreskes is Professor of the History of Science and Affiliated Professor of Earth and Environmental
Sciences at Harvard University, and an internationally recognized expert on the development of scientific
knowledge. The author of numerous books, articles, and opinion pieces, her 2010 book, Merchants of Doubt,
which documented the history of climate change denial, was short-listed for the Los Angeles Times book prize
and has just been released as a documentary film distributed by SONY Pictures.
Her 2014 book, The Collapse of Western Civilization (which explores the consequences of failing to act to
prevent disruptive climate change) has been a best-seller in France and has been translated into eight
languages. She has won numerous prizes and awards for her work, including, most recently, the 2014
American Geophysical Union Presidential Citation for Science and Society, the 2015 Herbert Feis Prize of the
American Historical Association for her contributions to public history, and the National Center for Science
Education Friend of the Earth citation.
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Francis O'Sullivan
Director of Research and Analysis, MIT Energy Initiative
Dr. Francis O’Sullivan is Director of Research and Analysis for the MIT Energy Initiative, and a lecturer at the
MIT Sloan School of Management. His research interests span a range of topics related to energy
technologies, policy, and economics. His current research is focused on unconventional oil and gas resources,
the energy-water nexus, and solar energy. He has extensive expertise regarding the production dynamics and
associated economics of North America’s shale plays. His work also includes the study of environmental
issues associated with the development of unconventionals, particularly water resource impacts and fugitive
emissions. He also studies global gas market dynamics and the LNG trade and is actively examining the
implications for energy markets of emerging international unconventional resource plays. He has written and
spoken widely on these topics, and has made presentations to the President’s Office of Science and
Technology Policy, the United States Environmental Protection Agency, the Brookings Institute, the Bipartisan
Policy Center, the Center for Strategic and International Studies, the National Governors’ Association, the
National Association of Regulated Utility Commissioners, at CERAWeek, the American Physical Society, and
to a range of other academic, policy, and industry forums. He is an author of the 2011 MIT Future of Natural
Gas Study, and a member of the MIT Future of Solar Energy study group. O’Sullivan is also a member of the
National Academies’ Roundtable on Science and Technology for Sustainability. Prior to joining MIT, O’Sullivan
was a consultant with McKinsey & Company, where he worked extensively in the areas of economic,
investment and risk analysis, strategic planning, and operations in the private equity, oil and gas, electric utility,
and renewable energy sectors. O’Sullivan received his Ph.D., E.E., and S.M. degrees from the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology, and his B.E. degree from the National University of Ireland, all in electrical engineering.
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Michael A. Pacheco
Associate Lab Director, S&T Programs, NRE
Dr. Michael Pacheco is the Associate Laboratory Director (ALD) for the Science & Technology research
programs at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL). This includes: Solar, Wind & Water,
Bioenergy, Vehicles, Buildings, Hydrogen, Fuel Cell, Geothermal, and Electricity System technology programs.
He also oversees NREL’s lab-wide portfolio of Strategic Partnerships with industry. Pacheco joined NREL in
2003 as founding director of DOE’s National Bioenergy Center. In 2007, he left NREL for a brief period to serve
as CTO for Archer Daniels Midland Company. Reporting to ADM’s CEO, he led the development of ADM’s
global biofuels strategy. In 2008, Dr. Pacheco launched a unique 74-acre outdoor test site (SolarTAC) for
evaluating performance of solar technologies, PV & CSP. He then led all of NREL’s Deployment & Market
Transformation programs for 5 years (2008-2013), before taking on his current role as ALD for all of NREL’s
S&T programs. Prior to joining NREL, Pacheco had gained 22 years of industry experience, including: 4 years
as a technology manager for Louisiana Pacific Corporation; 2 years as officer of a biotech start-up (Energy
BioSystems Corp.); and 16 years in petroleum refining technology: 13 years with Amoco, and 3 years with
Conoco. He holds Ph.D. and B.S. degrees in chemical engineering from the University of California at Berkeley
and Clarkson University, respectively.
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John Pierce
BP Chief Bioscientist
John Pierce joined BP as Chief Bioscientist in April 2010. He is responsible for developing strategies to help
position the Company to gain maximum benefit from the application of biosciences to BP's world-wide
businesses. Dr. Pierce received his B.S. degree in Biochemistry in 1976 from the Pennsylvania State
University and his PhD degree in 1980 from Michigan State University in the areas of carbohydrate chemistry
and enzymology. After postdoctoral appointments at Cornell University and University of Wisconsin, he
worked at DuPont for a substantial time, commencing as a research scientist in Central Research and
Development and culminating as Vice President for DuPont Applied BioSciences and Director of Biochemical
Sciences & Engineering where he had responsibility for DuPont's biotechnology research and development
efforts in the production of fuels, chemicals, and materials. Throughout his career, Dr. Pierce has focused on
the integration of biology with chemistry, engineering, and material sciences to create biotechnological
applications in agricultural chemistry, plant genetics, and industrial chemistry. In addition, he has long been
involved in a variety of public policy activities associated with public acceptance and governmental support of
biotechnology.
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Ronald G. Prinn
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Ronald G. Prinn is TEPCO Professor of Atmospheric Science, Director of the Center for Global Change
Science, and Co-Director of the Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change. He has been a
faculty member at MIT since 1971 and headed the Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences
from 1998 to 2003. He is currently involved in a wide range of projects in atmospheric and climate science, and
integrated assessment of science and policy regarding climate change. He leads the Advanced Global
Atmospheric Gases Experiment (AGAGE), in which the rates of change of the concentrations of trace gases
involved in the greenhouse effect and ozone depletion have been measured continuously over the globe since
1978.He also works extensively with social scientists to link the science, economics and policy aspects of
global change. He has co-led the development of a unique integrated global system model coupling
economics, climate physics and chemistry, and land and ocean ecosystems, which is used to estimate
uncertainty in climate predictions and analyze proposed climate policies. Detailed information is available at
web.mit.edu/rprinn.
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Everett L. Redmond II
Senior Director, Fuel Cycle and Technology Policy, Nuclear Energy Institute
Everett Redmond is Senior Director, Fuel Cycle and Technology Policy, at the Nuclear Energy Institute. He is
responsible for coordinating industry policy and programs related to current and advanced fuel cycles,
including both the front-end (mining, enriching, conversion, fabrication) and the back-end of the fuel cycle
(storage and disposal), and nonproliferation. Prior to this role, he was responsible for generic regulatory
matters related to commercial used fuel storage and transportation in the United States. Everett has been with
NEI since October 2006. Before joining NEI, Everett was a Principal Engineer at Holtec International from 1996
through 2006 and was responsible for the radiological design of the company’s dry cask storage and
transportation systems. Everett holds a Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Nuclear
Engineering (1997).
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John Reilly
Co-Director of the Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change, MIT
Dr. Reilly is the Co-Director of the Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change and Senior
Lecturer in the Sloan School at MIT. Much of his 20-year research career has focused on the economics of
climate change, including modeling of energy use and carbon emissions and on the economic impacts of
climate change on agriculture as well as consideration of agriculture and forestry sinks. He has published
extensively on the economics of climate change and on other issues related to natural resources, technology,
and energy use and supply. He was a principal author for the agricultural impacts chapter of the IPCC Second
Assessment Report, co-chaired the agricultural sector assessment of the US National Assessment on Climate
Variability and Change, and has served on many US Federal government and international committees. Prior
to joining MIT in 1998, he spent 12 years with the Economic Research Service of USDA, most recently as the
Acting Director and Deputy Director for Research of the Resource Economics Division. He has been a
scientist with Battelle's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory and with the Institute for Energy Analysis, Oak
Ridge Associated Universities. He received his Ph.D. in economics from the University of Pennsylvania in 1983
and holds a B.S. in economics and political science from the University of Wisconsin.
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Henri Safa
Deputy Executive Director of the International Institute of Nuclear Energy I2EN, France
Henri Safa is a graduate from Supélec Graduate School of Engineering and holds a PhD in Material Science
which he carried out at ONERA, the French Aerospace Research Center. He begins his career in the industry
at THOMSON-CSF. He joins CEA (the French Atomic Energy and Alternative Energies Commission) in 1990
to carry out fundamental research on superconducting cavities for particle accelerators at the Nuclear Physics
Department. In 1997 and 1998, he participates in the Accelerator Production of Tritium project at Los Alamos
National Laboratory, USA. After running a R&D laboratory on superconducting cavities, his R&D concentrates
from 2002 to 2005 on the applications of photofission. Since 2006, he is appointed Coordinator of the Scientific
Committee of CEA's Nuclear Energy Division and in charge of the Basic Nuclear Training for the Division's
personnel. Henri Safa has published 92 scientific papers, filed 1 patent and published 5 books on energy. He is
a CEA International Expert in Nuclear Engineering and Nuclear Instrumentation and is part of the IAEA
Working Group on Nuclear Cogeneration. He has contributed to the French national energy alliance ANCRE in
the frame of the national energy debate launched in France in 2013, namely on building energy scenarios for
the future.
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Robert J. Stoner
Deputy Director, MITEI
Robert J. Stoner is an inventor and technology entrepreneur who has worked extensively in academia and
industry throughout his career, having built and managed successful technology firms in the semiconductor, IT
and optics industries. From 2007 through 2009 he lived and worked in Africa and India while serving in a
variety of senior roles within the Clinton Foundation. Stoner also serves as co-Director of the Tata Center for
Technology and Design at MIT, and is a member of the Science and Technology Committee of the Alliance for
Sustainable Energy, which manages the National Renewable Energy Laboratory. His current research relates
to energy technology and policy for developing countries. He earned his Bachelor’s degree in engineering
physics from Queen’s University, and his Ph.D. from Brown University in condensed matter physics.
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John C. Wagner
Director, Reactor and Nuclear Systems Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Dr. John C. Wagner is the Division Director for the Reactor and Nuclear Systems Division at Oak Ridge
National Laboratory (ORNL). Wagner received a B.S. in nuclear engineering from the Missouri University of
Science and Technology (formerly the University of Missouri-Rolla) in 1992 and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from
the Pennsylvania State University in 1994 and 1997, respectively. Wagner is a Fellow of the American Nuclear
Society and recipient of the 2013 E. O. Lawrence Award. Wagner joined ORNL as an R&D Staff Member in
1999 performing research in the area of burnup credit criticality safety and has since held various positions of
increasing responsibility. In 2003, Wagner became leader of the Criticality and Shielding Methods and
Applications Group. In 2006, Wagner became leader of the Radiation Transport and Criticality Group. In late
2006, Wagner became Technical Lead for postclosure criticality in support of DOE OCRWM’s Lead Laboratory
for Repository Systems. In this capacity, Wagner managed the technical direction of postclosure work
activities, authored a five-year plan for developing the technical data needed to justify full burnup credit, and
contributed to the License Application for the proposed repository at Yucca Mountain. In 2007, Wagner led the
development of the Forward-Weighted CADIS hybrid radiation transport method, which has been
demonstrated to be an enabling method for Monte Carlo simulations in which results are sought throughout the
problem space (e.g., flux or dose rates throughout a problem). From 2009–2010, Wagner assumed
responsibility for business development and technical integration of seven R&D groups: Advanced Reactor
Systems and Safety, Nuclear Computational Information, Nuclear Data and Criticality Safety, Nuclear Security
Modeling, Radiation Transport, Reactor Physics, and Thermal Hydraulics and Irradiation Engineering. In 2010,
Wagner became leader of the Design, Safety and Simulation Integration Group, which was predominately
comprised of senior staff. He also became a member of the ORNL Nuclear Science and Engineering
Directorate Leadership Team. In 2012, he was appointed as National Technical Director for the Nuclear Fuels
Storage and Transportation Planning Project, U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Nuclear Energy. He also
became manager of the Used Fuel Systems Group. Wagner serves as Division Director of the Reactor and
Nuclear Systems Division at ORNL. He was elected Fellow, American Nuclear Society, in September 2012
and received the 2013 E. O. Lawrence Award in 2014. Wagner’s research interests span a wide range of
issues associated with nuclear energy, safety, and security, including used nuclear fuel storage, transportation,
and disposal; spent fuel characterization and safety; Monte Carlo, deterministic, and hybrid (Monte
Carlo/deterministic) radiation transport methods; and variance reduction methods. Wagner has authored or coauthored more than 150 refereed journal and conference articles, technical reports, and conference
summaries. He was the original developer of the A3MCNP and ADVANTG codes and led the development of
the CADIS and Forward-Weighted CADIS hybrid transport methods.
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