MITEI - Key Persons
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- Department of Economics
- Professor Department of Economics
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- Senior Research Scientist / MIT Center for Global Change Science
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- Department of Civil
- Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
MIT researchers-led by Franz-Josef Ulm (Civil and Environmental Engineering), Admir Masic (Civil and Environmental Engineering), and Yang-Shao Horn (Mechanical Engineering)-created a "supercapacitator" using cement and carbon black that can store renewable energy.
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- Lecturer
- Lecturer Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics
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- Department of Mechanical Engineering
- Professor Department of Mechanical Engineering
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- Member of the Development Staff
- Education Program Administrator
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- Department of Mathematics
- Professor
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- Professor
- Professor Program in Media Arts and Sciences
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- Department of Chemistry
- Professor Department of Chemistry
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- Department of Mechanical Engineering
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- Member of the Administration Staff
- Senior Administrative Assistant
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- Department of Materials Science and Engineering
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- Principal Research Scientist, Experimental / Plasma Science and Fusion Center
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- Department of Mechanical
- Department of Mechanical Engineering
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- Dean of Engineering and Professor
- Dean of Engineering and Professor Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Anantha Chandrakasan named dean of School of Engineering
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- Associate Professor
- Associate Professor Sloan School of Management
- Sloan Professor
MIT Sloan Professor Andy Sun works to improve the electricity grid so it can better use renewable energy.
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- Department Head and Professor
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- Member of the Development Staff
- Associate Director, Graduate Programs / Finance / Finance Staff Members
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- Vice Provost and Professor
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- Professor / Department of Biology
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- Director of Education
- Member of the Development Staff
- Director of Education at the MIT Energy Initiative
- Director of Education MIT Energy Initiative
- Member of the Board of Directors of the Global Council for Science
Antje Danielson is the Director of Education at the MIT Energy Initiative, where she directs existing energy programs-such as the MIT Energy Studies Minor and the Energy Fellows Program-conceives and oversees the development of new programs-such as the Future of Energy Systems online MicroMasters-and engages in interdisciplinary research related to transformation systems. She co-teaches energy- and climate-related classes, and leverages her extensive international network of like-minded academic and professional colleagues to accelerate climate change related capacity building.
Prior to her position at MIT, she directed the Institute of the Environment at Tufts University, where she was also an assistant professor in the Department of Public Health. From 2005 to 2008, she was the Deputy Director for Sustainability at the Centre for Research into Earth Energy Systems at Durham University in the UK, where she initiated a carbon capture and storage working group.
Danielson's approach to finding climate solutions is systemic, interdisciplinary, collaborative, and entrepreneurial. She advances her goals through research, education, and implementation of solutions. In 1999/2000, she co-founded the car-sharing company Zipcar.
Danielson is a member of the Board of Directors of the Global Council for Science and the Environment and has also served as President of the U.S. Council for Environmental Deans and Directors. She received teaching awards from Harvard University and an Exceptional Contribution Award from Durham University.
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- Associate Professor / Department of Materials Science and Engineering
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- Principal
- Research Scientist
- Principal Research Scientist Materials Research Laboratory
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- Senior Research Scientist
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- Assistant Professor
- Department of Chemical Engineering
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- Assistant Professor / Department of Materials Science and Engineering
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- Member of the IT Staff
- Manager of Member Relations Programs and Engagement
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- Member of the External Advisory Board
- Managing Partner, Safar Partners
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- Principal
- Research Scientist
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- Associate Department Head
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- Department of Chemical Engineering
- Professor
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- Department of Mechanical Engineering
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- Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering
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- Professor of the Practice
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- Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences
- Professor
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- Department of Chemical Engineering
- Professor
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- Principal
- Research Scientist
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- Member of the IT Staff
- Special Projects Manager
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- Senior Research Scientist / Plasma Science and Fusion Center
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- Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics
- Professor
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- Department of Architecture
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- Administrative Assistant
- Member of the Administration Staff
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- Department of Materials Science and Engineering
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- Professor of the Practice
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- Member of the Research Staff
- Senior Lecturer / Sloan School of Management
- Visiting Scientist
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- Associate Department Head
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- Department of Materials Science and Engineering
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- Principal
- Research Scientist
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- Member of the Administration Staff
- Member of the Development Staff
- Communications and Development Assistant / Development
- Communications and Development Assistant / Education / Education Staff Members
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- Department of Architecture
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- Member of the Executive Leadership Team
- Deputy Director of Policy
- Deputy Director of Policy and Professor
- Deputy Director of Policy and Professor MIT Energy Initiative Sloan School of Management
- Professor Michael Greenstone
Christopher Knittel is the deputy director of policy at MITEI and the George P. Shultz Professor of Energy Economics in the Sloan School of Management MIT. He is also the director of MIT's Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research, which has served as the hub for social science research on energy and the environmental since the late 1970s. Knittel is also a co-director of The E2e Project, a research initiative between MIT, UC Berkeley, and the University of Chicago, to undertake rigorous evaluation of energy efficiency investments. He joined the faculty at MIT in 2011, having taught previously at UC Davis and Boston University. At MIT, he teaches Energy Economics and Policy to undergraduates, MBA students, and graduate students from outside of the Sloan School of Management.
Christopher Magee Professor of the Practice Emeritus
Institute for Data, Systems, and Society
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- Assistant Professor
- Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics
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- Professor / Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
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- Group Leader, Disruption Studies / Plasma Science and Fusion Center
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- Department of Mechanical Engineering
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- Member of the External Advisory Board
- Vice Chairman, S & P Global
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- Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
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- Research Scientist / Plasma Science and Fusion Center
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- Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics
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- Associate Professor
- Department of Urban Studies and Planning
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- Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science / Ethan Peterson Group Leader, Neutronics
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- Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
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- Professor / Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
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- Events Manager
- Member of the Administration Staff
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- Department of Urban Studies and Planning
- Professor
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- PSFC Director and Department Head
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- Principal
- Research Scientist
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- Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
- Professor
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- Member of the External Advisory Board
- Vice President of Research, ExxonMobil
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- Professor / Department of Materials Science and Engineering
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- Department of Mechanical Engineering
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- Member of the Development Staff
- Senior Fiscal Officer
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- Department of Civil
- Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
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- Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
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- Member of the External Advisory Board
- Department of Physics
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- Department of Materials Science and Engineering
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- Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering
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- Member of the Research Staff
- Principal
- Research Scientist
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- Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science / Laurent
- Professor
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- Member of the External Advisory Board
- Cecil and Ida Green Professor of Physics & Engineering Systems Emeritus
- Physics and Special Advisor to the President
Ernest Moniz Professor of Physics and Special Advisor to the President
Department of Physics
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- Professor / Department of Economics
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- Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science / Ethan Peterson Group Leader, Neutronics
- Professor
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- Department Head and Professor
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- Associate Professor
- Department of Chemical Engineering
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- Member of the External Advisory Board
- Director Technology, R & D & Digital, Eni S.P.a
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- Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
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- Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
- Professor
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- Member of the Administration Staff
- Administrative and Operations Coordinator / Communications and Events / Communications Staff Members
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- Department of Mechanical Engineering
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- Department of Mechanical Engineering
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- Research Scientist / Institute for Soldier Nanotechnologies
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- Department of Chemical Engineering
- Professor
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- Department of Chemical Engineering
- Professor
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- Member of the External Advisory Board
- Chairman and Managing Director, Haci Omer Sabanci Holding AS
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- Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
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- Director, Crystal Physics and Electroceramics Laboratory
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- Associate Professor
- Department of Chemical Engineering
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- Development Officer
- Member of the Development Staff
- Development Officer MIT Energy Initiative
Heather Leet joined MITEI as the development officer in May of 2023 and has been privileged to spend the last 20 years helping donors fulfill their philanthropic wishes for several education, service, and humanitarian organizations. Prior to joining MITEI, Heather was the Director of Development at the Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy at Tufts University.
Heather's past fundraising has included a variety of organizations including the Old State House in Boston, Rotary International, and the United of Way of Metro Chicago. Heather has attributed her choice to support organizations that are making an impact on their communities and the world to her service as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Bulgaria, where she taught English as a second language and supported several student projects, including a Danube River pollutant research project by High School Students for which she raised funds from USAID.
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- Professor / Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
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- Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
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- Member of the Research Staff
- Senior Research Engineer
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- Department of Mechanical Engineering
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- Research Affiliate / Sloan School of Management
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- Member of the IT Staff
- Director of Member Services at the MIT Energy Initiative
- Director of Member Services MIT Energy Initiative
J.J. Laukaitis is the Director of Member Services at the MIT Energy Initiative, where he manages the growth of impactful collaborations between leading corporations and MIT faculty, researchers, and innovators.
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- Professor / Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering
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- Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics
- Professor
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- Department of Biological Engineering
- Professor
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- Principal Research Engineer / Plasma Science and Fusion Center
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- Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
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- Associate Professor
- Department of Urban Studies and Planning
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- Financial Assistant
- Member of the Development Staff
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- Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering
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- Department Head and Professor
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- Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science / Robert Langer Institute
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- Principal
- Research Scientist
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- Deputy Head, MFE / Plasma Science and Fusion Center
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- Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
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- Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
- Professor
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- Cities and Transportation and Founder, MIT Mobility Initiative
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- Department of Mechanical Engineering / Leslie Bromberg Research Engineer
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- Member of the External Advisory Board
- Institute Professor and Professor of Chemistry Emeritus
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- Director, Environmental Solutions Initiative
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- Department of Mechanical Engineering
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- Department of Mechanical Engineering
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- Department of Mechanical Engineering
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- Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering
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- Professor / Department of Architecture
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- Senior Lecturer / Sloan School of Management
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- Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
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- Senior Lecturer / Sloan School of Management
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- Senior Research Scientist / Plasma Science and Fusion Center
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- Chairman Emeritus
- Member of the External Advisory Board
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- Director, Responsive Environments Group
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- Executive Director, CEEPR
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- Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering
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- Principal
- Research Scientist
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- Department of Mechanical Engineering
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- Department of Chemical Engineering
- Professor
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- Director, CRSP Renovations
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- Member of the Research Staff
- Program Manager, Future Energy Systems Center
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- Communications Manager
- Member of the Administration Staff
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- Member of the Administration Staff
- Events Planning Manager
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- Principal Research Scientist / Media Lab
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- Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics
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- Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences
- Professor
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- Principal Research Scientist / Plasma Science and Fusion Center
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- Department of Chemical Engineering
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- Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering
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- Professor / Department of Mechanical Engineering
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- Assistant Professor
- Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences
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- Department of Urban Studies and Planning
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- Member of the Development Staff
- Senior Fiscal Officer
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- Department of Architecture
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- Department of Mechanical Engineering / Leslie Bromberg Research Engineer
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- Department of Architecture
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- Associate Professor
- Department of Physics
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- Member of the IT Staff
- Program Director, MITEI Asia Pacific Program
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- Senior Research Scientist / Nuclear Reactor Laboratory
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- Director, Microphotonics Center
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- Assistant Professor
- Department of Physics
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- Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
- Professor
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- Assistant Professor
- Department of Chemical Engineering
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- Department of Mechanical Engineering
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- Senior Research Scientist and Senior Staff
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- Department of Architecture
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- Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
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- Executive Director
- Executive Director MIT Energy Initiative
Martha Broad is MITEI's executive director. As part of the leadership team, she works to link science, innovation and policy to transform the world's energy systems. She has a track record of successfully partnering with business, government and nonprofit stakeholders to support the clean energy transition. At MITEI, she works closely with member companies who collaborate with MIT researchers on a spectrum of topics, including the Future Energy Systems Center.
In addition, she spearheads MITEI's collaboration with the U.S. Department of Energy to design, manage, and host the annual Clean Energy Education and Empowerment (C3E) Women in Clean Energy Symposium and serves as a C3E Ambassador.
Previously, as part of the senior management team of the Massachusetts Clean Energy Center (MassCEC), Broad led programs and studies that focused on the commercialization of clean energy technologies. By collaborating with universities and public and private partners, she helped facilitate the state's successful installation of hundreds of megawatts of wind and solar systems.
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- Department of Chemical Engineering
- Professor
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- Research Affiliate / Plasma Science and Fusion Center
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- Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering
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- Assistant Professor
- Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences
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- Professor / Department of Materials Science and Engineering
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- Department of Materials Science and Engineering
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- Senior Research Scientist
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- Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering
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- Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
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- Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering
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- Department of Chemical Engineering
- Professor
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- Department of Mechanical Engineering
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- Department of Architecture
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- Research Scientist / Plasma Science and Fusion Center
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- Department of Chemistry / Priya
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- Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
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- Professor / Department of Chemistry
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- Member of the Administration Staff
- Editor, Energy Futures
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- Principal Research Scientist / Plasma Science and Fusion Center
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- Director, Center for Bits and Atoms
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- Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics
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- Professor / Department of Mechanical Engineering
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- Chairman of the External Advisory Board
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- Department of Physics
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- Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics
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- Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
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- Member of the Research Staff
- Research Scientist
MITEI is affiliated with faculty members in a number of MIT centers, departments, and laboratories pursuing interdisciplinary energy and environmental activities. MITEI supports the financial administration of certain projects and collaborates on research and education activities with these organizations.
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- Group Leader, MFE Integrated Modeling Group / Plasma Science and Fusion Center
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- Principal
- Research Scientist
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- Member of the IT Staff
- Systems Administrator / Member Services / Member Services Staff Members
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- Department of Chemical Engineering
- Professor
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- Department of Chemical Engineering
- Professor
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- Professor / Department of Mechanical Engineering
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- Vice Provost and Professor
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- Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
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- Research Scientist, Experimental / Plasma Science and Fusion Center
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- Member of the External Advisory Board
- Retired President, Resources for the Future
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- Department of Mechanical Engineering
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- Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
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- Member of the External Advisory Board
- Head of ESG Enablement, T. Rowe Price
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- Associate Professor
- Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics
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- Member of the External Advisory Board
- Chairman, Grupo Ferrovial SA
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- Assistant Professor / Department of Materials Science and Engineering
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- Associate Director and Professor
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- Member of the Research Staff
- Executive Director of the MITEI 's Future Energy Systems Center
- Executive Director, Future Energy Systems Center MIT Energy Initiative
Randall Field is executive director of the MITEI's Future Energy Systems Center which examines the accelerating energy transition as emerging technologies, policies, demographics, and economics reshaping the landscape of energy supply and demand. He is also executive director of MIT's Fusion Study examining the global multidecadal dynamics of the energy transition and how fusion energy can contribute to decarbonizing global energy systems. He was previously executive director for MITEI's Mobility Systems Center, assessing the impact of transformations in vehicle and fuel technologies, service and business models, and consumer behavior in the movement of both passengers and goods. He was also executive director for MIT's Mobility of the Future study which produced the Insights in the Future Mobility report covering global projections of alternative fuel vehicle fleets and energy consumption, deployment of charging and fueling infrastructure, attitudes towards mobility, and the impacts of innovative technologies and business models on urban mobility. As executive director for the Conversion Research Program at MIT for 10 years, Field worked with a multidisciplinary team of researchers to explore various conversion technologies for production of alternative fuels. Prior to MIT, Field worked for Aspen Technology for 23 years. Field received a SM in chemical engineering practice from MIT and a BS in chemical engineering from Caltech.
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- Principal
- Research Scientist
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- Member of the External Advisory Board
- Chairman, Tata Sons Limited
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- Principal
- Research Scientist
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- Department of Chemical Engineering
- Professor
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- Vice Provost and Professor
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- Chairman Emeritus
- Member of the External Advisory Board
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- Director
- Chevron Professor of Chemical Engineering, Emeritus, and Former Director
- Energy Initiative Director
MIT Energy Initiative Director Robert Armstrong shares perspectives on past successes and ongoing and future energy projects at the Institute.
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- Department of Chemical Engineering
- Professor Emeritus
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- Principal
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- Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics
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- Department of Physics
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- Director
- Member of the Executive Leadership Team
- Director MIT Energy Initiative
Robert Stoner is the director of MITEI and founding director of the MIT Tata Center for Technology and Design. He was previously MITEI's deputy director for science and technology. Stoner is currently a member of the MIT Energy Council. He also serves on the Board of Directors of, and the Science and Technology Committee of, the Alliance for Sustainable Energy, which oversees the U.S. National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), and as a member and secretary of the Global Commission to End Energy Poverty.
Stoner is the inventor of numerous computational and ultrafast optical measurement techniques and has 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, including as the CEO of the Clinton Development Initiative, and director of the Clinton Climate Initiative for Africa. His present research at MIT focuses on solutions to energy poverty, and the design and optimization of energy systems and business models in the developing world. He earned his bachelor's degree in engineering physics from Queen's University and Ph.D. from Brown University in condensed matter physics.
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- Manager of Financial Operations MIT Energy Initiative
Robert Tolu has worked for more than 20 years in finance and sponsored-award administration. Previously he worked for Harvard University and the education and healthcare nonprofit, Education Development Center. At MITEI, he serves as Manager of Financial Operations, overseeing a team tasked with all financial matters, pre- and post-award, ensuring smooth operations. Robert earned a bachelor's degree from Harvard University. He is deeply experienced in finance administration with the federal government, industry, and foundation funders.
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- Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences
- Professor
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- Professor Associate Director, J - WAFS
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- Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering
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- Department of Chemical Engineering
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- Member of the Development Staff
- Senior Academic Program Administrator
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- Energy Systems Research Lead
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- Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
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- Deputy Head, MFE Engineering / Plasma Science and Fusion Center
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- Member of the External Advisory Board
- Co - Chair, Nuclear Threat Initiative
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- Vice President for Open Learning
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- Human Resources Manager
- Human Resources Manager MIT Energy Initiative
Sarah strategically partners with all MITEI teams to achieve optimum operational results. Having worked at MIT since 1999, Sarah brought a wealth of institutional knowledge to MITEI when she joined as Human Resources Administrator in May 2018. As a member of the MITEI leadership team, Sarah consults on and helps implement policies and procedures, while proactively managing a wide variety of staff- and student-related issues, to maintain alignment of MITEI's goals, mission, and philosophy with its employees. Recognizing that people are the most valuable resource in an organization, Sarah strives to achieve a great workplace and work-life balance for everyone at MITEI.
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- Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
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- Member of the External Advisory Board
- President, Shell Global Solutions US
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- Senior Research Scientist
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- Associate Professor
- Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics
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- Department of Architecture
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- Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences
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- Department of Mechanical Engineering / John Deutch Institute
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- Department of Urban Studies and Planning
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- Principal Research Scientist / Plasma Science and Fusion Center
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- Associate Department Head and Professor
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- Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
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- Member of the External Advisory Board
- Chairman Emeritus, Eisenhower Institute
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- Member of the External Advisory Board
- President Emerita and Professor of Neuroscience
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- Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences
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- Professor / Department of Chemistry
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- Department of Chemical Engineering
- Professor
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- Research Scientist / Plasma Science and Fusion Center
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- Member of the Development Staff
- Senior Financial Assistant
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- Department of Mechanical Engineering
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- Communications Director
- Director of Communications
- Member of the Administration Staff
- Director of Communications MIT Energy Initiative
Tom Melville joined MITEI as communications director in April, 2021. Before joining MITEI, he spent nine years at Boston's NPR news station, WBUR, leading the largest public radio station newsroom in the United States. He directed reporting teams covering politics, the environment, healthcare, education, the arts, business/innovation/technology and investigations. He joined WBUR as executive editor of content in 2011, was promoted to news director in 2013 and to executive news director in 2015. Before joining WBUR, he was news director at the nation's largest regional news channel, New England Cable News (NECN). At NECN, Melville rose through the ranks from reporter to executive producer and to assistant news director before being named news director in 2008. He was executive producer and co-writer of an NECN documentary film on hospice care, "Look for Me Here: 299 days in the life of Nora Lenihan," which won more than a dozen regional, national and international awards, including the George Foster Peabody Award.
He began reporting the news at a radio station in his native Newton, Massachusetts when he was 16 years old. He covered sports at the Boston Herald-American while an undergraduate at Boston University. He served in the United States Peace Corps in the Dominican Republic, teaching vegetable gardening in the public schools in the town of El Valle. He is a graduate of Boston College Law School and holds a law license in Massachusetts.
Early in his career, Melville was a news reporter covering small town government at radio stations in New Hampshire. He covered agriculture and was weekend anchor at the ABC television station in Sioux City, Iowa. He was an anchor, reporter, producer and news director at the NBC television station in White River Junction, Vermont. He covered consumer news and the courts for the NBC television station in West Palm Beach, Florida. He then moved home to Boston to become chief political reporter for NECN.
Melville was also a consultant with the Boston-area media relations firm eMedia Junction, advising nonprofit and for-profit organizations on communications strategy, media training, content creation, storytelling, and crisis communications.
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- Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences
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- Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
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- Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
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- Department of Mechanical Engineering
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- Department Head and Professor
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- Director, MIT.Nano and Professor
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- Department of Mechanical Engineering
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- Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
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- Department of Chemical Engineering
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- Associate Professor
- Department of Chemical Engineering
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- Department of Mechanical Engineering
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- Professor / Department of Materials Science and Engineering
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- Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics
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- Senior Research Scientist
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- Department of Chemical Engineering
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- Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering
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- Assistant Professor
- Department of Chemical Engineering