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Solar Energy: Martin Green

Biofuels: Christopher Field
Carbon Capture and Storage: Sally Benson


Martin Green
Solar Energy: Martin Green

Martin Green is the GCEP Research Theme Leader in the area of Solar Energy and is also currently a principal investigator working on Nanostructured Silicon-Based Tandem Solar Cells for the Project. He is Scientia Professor at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia, as well as the founder and Executive Research Director of the University's world-renowned Photovoltaic Centre of Excellence. Green is also a Director of CSG Solar, a company formed specifically to commercialize the University’s thin-film, polycrystalline-silicon-on-glass solar cell. His group's contributions to photovoltaics are well known, holding the world record for silicon cell efficiency, presently 25%, for almost 20 years. Several of the group’s technologies are now in large-scale commercial production.  He is the author of six books on solar cells and numerous papers in the area of semiconductors, microelectronics, optoelectronics, and solar cells.
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Chris Field
Biofuels: Christopher Field

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.
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Sally Benson
Carbon Capture and Storage: Sally Benson

Sally Benson is the GCEP Theme Leader in the area of Carbon Capture and Storage. She is also GCEP Executive 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). Prior to joining the Project, Benson was Staff Scientist in the Earth Sciences Division and Deputy Director of Operations, both at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. A ground water hydrologist and reservoir engineer, she has conducted research to address a range of issues related to energy and the environment. The author or co-author of over 160 scientific publications, Benson is a member of the American Geophysical Union, the Society of Petroleum Engineers, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and the American Chemical Society.
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