July 2020

Dr. Erik Koepf leads the applications engineering laboratory at DuPont’s Silicon Valley Technology Center (SVTC) in Sunnyvale, CA. At SVTC, Dr. Koepf works with DuPont’s engineering and scientific teams in support of high growth potential materials and applications development projects serving the Silicon Valley customer base, for example in the areas of emerging consumer electronics and next generation high speed communication. Before joining DuPont, Dr. Koepf was a Project Leader at ETH Zurich in the Professorship of Renewable Energy Carriers, and led the European Union Sun-to-Liquid...Read more

In 1983 he received his Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), in 1979 his Masters of Science (M.S.) both in Mechanical Engineering, with a focus on energy, from the University of California (U.C.) at Berkeley. He has over 180 energy publications in the refereed literature, proceedings of meetings, international symposia, book chapters, and patents.

He devoted 18 years to building a globally recognized program at Sandia National Laboratories (SNL) that advances the science and technologies needed to enable a net-zero greenhouse gas (GHG...Read more

Ahmed Ghoniem the Ronald C. Crane Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Director of the Center for Energy and Propulsion Research and the Reacting Gas Dynamics Laboratory at MIT. He received his B.Sc. and M.Sc. degree from Cairo University, and Ph.D. at the University of California, Berkeley. His research covers computational engineering with application to turbulence and combustion, multiphase flow and multiscale phenomena, clean energy technologies with focus on CO2 capture, renewable energy and alternative fuels. His research has made fundamental contributions to multiscale simulations,...Read more