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Research Theme Leaders
More information about the role of the theme leaders can be found in the portfolio analysis section.Solar Energy: Nate Lewis Biofuels: Christopher Field Carbon Capture and Storage: Sally Benson Research Theme Leaders  Nate Lewis is the GCEP Theme Leader in the area of Solar Energy and was a principal investigator of the completed GCEP effort Artificial Photosynthesis: Membrane-Supported Assemblies that Use Sunlight to Split Water. Dr. Lewis, the George L. Argyros Professor of Chemistry, has been on the faculty at the California Institute of Technology since 1988 and has served as Professor since 1991. He has also served as the principal investigator of the Beckman Institute Molecular Materials Resource Center at Caltech since 1992. From 1981 to 1986, he was on the faculty at Stanford, as an assistant professor from 1981 to 1985 and as a tenured Associate Professor from 1986 to 1988. Dr. Lewis received his Ph.D in Chemistry from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. > More  Christopher Field is the GCEP Research Theme Leader in the area of Bioenergy and is also currently a principal investigator conducting research on Technology Potential of Biofuels: Feasibility Assessment for GCEP. He is Director of the Carnegie Institution's Department of Global Ecology and Professor by Courtesy in the Department of Biological Sciences at Stanford. Trained as an ecologist, he has conducted environmental research from tropical rainforests to deserts to alpine tundra. Field is a specialist in global-change research. An author of more than 100 scientific papers, he is a member of the US National Academy of Sciences and a leader in several national and international efforts to provide the scientific foundation for a sustainable future. > More  Sally Benson is the GCEP Theme Leader in the area of Carbon Capture and Storage and currently a principal investigator on the GCEP effort Experimental Investigations of Multiphase Flow and Trapping of CO2 in Saline Aquifers. She is also the GCEP Director and Professor (Research) in the Department of Energy Resources Engineering in the School of Earth Sciences at Stanford (http://pangea.stanford.edu/research/bensonlab). > More |