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Franklin "Lynn" M. Orr, Jr. Email | Bio
Department Affiliation: Petroleum Engineering, Stanford University
Secondary Affiliation: Chemical Engineering, Interdisciplinary Graduate Program in Environment and Resources, Stanford University
Area of Study: Geologic Sequestration of CO2, Enhanced Oil Recovery, Multiphase Flow in Porous Media
GCEP Projects: Geologic Storage of CO2 in Coal Beds
Rapid Prediction of Subsurface CO2 Movement (Completed 12/31/2005)

Cor J. Peters Email | Bio | Lab
Department Affiliation: Laboratory of Physical Chemistry and Molecular Thermodynamics, Delft University of Technology
Secondary Affiliation: Faculty of Applied Sciences, Delft University of Technology
Area of Study: Applied Thermodynamics, High Pressure Phase Equilibria: Ionic Liquids, Hydrogen Storage and Supercritical Fluids
GCEP Project: Advanced Membrane Reactors for Carbon-Free Fossil Fuel Conversion

Peter Peumans Email | Bio | Lab
Department Affiliation: Electrical Engineering, Stanford University
Area of Study: Organic and Organic-Inorganic Hybrid Devices for Energy Conversion
GCEP Project: Nanostructured Metal-Organic Composite Solar Cells

Peter Pinsky Email | Bio
Department Affiliation: Mechanical Engineering, Stanford University
Secondary Affiliation: Civil Engineering, Stanford University
Area of Study: Computational Mechanics: Fuel Cell Modeling
GCEP Project: Atomic Force Microscopy Measurements of PEM Fuel Cells Processes

Heinz Pitsch Email | Bio | Lab
Department Affiliation: Mechanical Engineering, Stanford University
Area of Study: Computational Energy Sciences, Combustion Modeling, Fuel Cells
GCEP Project: Optimization of Synthetic Oxygenated Fuels

Fritz Prinz Email | Bio | Lab
Department Affiliation: Mechanical Engineering, Stanford University
Secondary Affiliation: Materials Sciences and Engineering, Stanford University
Area of Study: Fuel Cells and Bio-sensing
GCEP Projects: Photosynthetic Bioelectricity
Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Studies of Ceramic Materials for Fuel Cells
Micro and Nano Scale Electrochemistry Applied to Fuel Cells (Completed 12/31/2005)
Monitoring Bioconversion Processes (Completed 12/31/2005)

Frank Rosenzweig Email | Bio
Department Affiliation: Department of Biological Sciences, University of Montana
Area of Study: Ecology and Evolution of Microbes including Yeast: Genetics and Metabolism
GCEP Project: Directed Evolution of Novel Yeast Species

Joop Schoonman Email | Lab
Department Affiliation: Laboratory for Inorganic Chemistry, Delft University of Technology
Area of Study: Nanostructured materials for conversion and storage of sustainable energy. Hydrogen Economy.
GCEP Project: Advanced Membrane Reactors for Carbon-Free Fossil Fuel Conversion

Gavin Sherlock Email | Bio
Department Affiliation: Genetics, Stanford University
Area of Study: Yeast Evolution, Five Carbon Sugar Metabolism, Microarrays, Genomics, Bioinformatics
GCEP Project: Directed Evolution of Novel Yeast Species

Christopher Somerville Email | Bio | Lab
Department Affiliation: Biological Sciences, Stanford University
Secondary Affiliation: Carnegie Institution
Area of Study: Genetic Engineering of Biomass Polysaccharide Composition
GCEP Project: Genetic Engineering of Cellulose Accumulation

Alfred Spormann Email | Bio
Department Affiliation: Civil and Environmental Engineering, Stanford University
GCEP Project: Biohydrogen Generation

Daniel Stack Email | Bio | Lab
Department Affiliation: Chemistry, Stanford University
Area of Study: Bio-Inspired Oxidation Catalysis
GCEP Project: Efficient Interconversion of Chemical and Electrical Energy: Electrocatalysis with Discrete Transition Metal Complexes

Jonathan F. Stebbins Email | Bio
Department Affiliation: Geological and Environmental Sciences, Stanford University
Secondary Affiliation: Materials Science and Engineering, Stanford University
GCEP Project: Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Studies of Ceramic Materials for Fuel Cells

James Swartz Email | Bio
Department Affiliation: Chemical Engineering, Stanford University
GCEP Projects: Direct Solar Biohydrogen
Biohydrogen Generation

James Sweeney Email | Bio | Lab
Department Affiliation: Management Science and Engineering, Stanford University
Secondary Affiliation: Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research, Hoover Institution on War, Revolution, and Peace
Area of Study: Energy, Environment, and Natural Resources: Policy and Analysis
GCEP Project: Integrated Assessment Fact Sheet

Hamdi Tchelepi Email | Bio
Department Affiliation: Petroleum Engineering, Stanford University
GCEP Project: A Numerical Simulation Framework for CO2 Sequestration

Dale Tree Email | Bio | Lab
Department Affiliation: Mechanical Engineering, Brigham Young University
Secondary Affiliation: http://www-acerc.byu.edu/Personnel/Tree.html
Area of Study: Oxyfuel, Diesel, Coal, Biomass

Robert Waymouth Email | Bio | Lab
Department Affiliation: Chemistry, Stanford University
Secondary Affiliation: Chemical Engineering, Stanford University
Area of Study: Transition Metal Catalysis for Olefin Polymerization and Hydrocarbon Oxidation
GCEP Project: Efficient Interconversion of Chemical and Electrical Energy: Electrocatalysis with Discrete Transition Metal Complexes

John Weyant Email | Bio
Department Affiliation: Management Science and Engineering, Stanford University
Secondary Affiliation: Energy Modeling Forum, IIS
Area of Study: Energy Modeling, Energy Technology Assessment
GCEP Project: Integrated Assessment Fact Sheet

Koichi Yamada Email | Lab
Department Affiliation: Research Institute of Innovative Technology for the Earth (RITE)
GCEP Project: Development of Innovative Gas Separation Membranes

Katsunori Yogo Email | Lab
Department Affiliation: Research Institute for Innovative Technology for the Earth (RITE)
GCEP Project: Development of Innovative Gas Separation Membranes

Mark Zoback Email | Bio | Lab
Department Affiliation: Geophysics, Stanford University
Area of Study: CO2 Sequestration
GCEP Projects: Geologic Storage of CO2 in Coal Beds
Seal Capacity of Potential CO2 Sequestration Sites