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Christoph Hartmann

Professor Christoph Hartmann started his professional career as a mechanical engineer in the automotive industry in 1997. He joined the Nestlé Research Center in Lausanne in 2006, where he investigated the mechanisms of in-mouth food breakdown. He was the leader of the Global Flavor Expert Network. 

In 2012, he took up position in R&D center in Beijing China and built the Nestle Food Safety Institute. In 2016 returned to Nestle Research Center to take up responsibilities for the Consumer Science Department. Since 2018, he leads Academic Alliances and Expertise...Read more

Hongda Chen

Dr. Hongda Chen is the National Program Leader for Bioprocess Engineering and Nanotechnology at National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA), USDA. He provides national leadership to develop nanoscale science, engineering, and technology for agriculture and food systems, and provides national leadership in engineering approaches for research, development, education and extension in food quality, safety and nutritional value.

Currently, he directs Enhancing Food Safety through Improved Processing Technologies in the Food Safety Challenge programs; and Nanotechnology for...Read more

Dariush Ajami

Dariush Ajami, Ph.D., joined Beyond Meat in June 2015. Since July 2018, Dr. Ajami has been Chief Innovation Officer of Beyond Meat. He served as Director of Chemistry from June 2015 to August 2016, Director of Research from August 2016 to August 2017 and Vice President of Innovation from August 2017 to July 2018.

Prior to joining Beyond Meat, Mr. Ajami was an Assistant Professor of Molecular Assembly at The Scripps Research Institute and Skaggs Institute of Chemical Biology from July 2008 to June 2015, where he worked on the fundamentals of molecular assembly, natural products and...Read more

Chellie Pingree

Chellie was elected to the Maine State Senate in 1992, representing Knox County. In 1996, Chellie was chosen by her peers to be the Maine Senate Majority Leader. She helped lead the Senate for four more years, until leaving office due to term limits. As a Senator, she fought for economic and social justice, taking on powerful adversaries - most notably the pharmaceutical lobby. In her last session, Pingree sponsored one of the nation's first prescription drug pricing bills, MaineRX. After a legal fight that led all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court, the bill became law, and has since been...Read more

Richard Felder

August 12, 2021

Luca Mastropasqua

Dr. Luca Mastropasqua is currently a Senior Research Scientist at the University of California, Irvine's National Fuel Cell Research Center (NFCRC), a leader in studying electrochemical energy conversion systems for renewable hydrogen and fuel production, power generation, carbon capture, and low emission industrial processes. Dr. Mastropasqua’s research focuses on how the integration of high-temperature electrochemical technologies can decarbonize sectors such as aviation, freight, shipping, steel production, data centers, and wastewater treatment.Read more

Jack Lewnard

Dr. Jack Lewnard currently serves as a Program Director at the Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA‑E). His focus at ARPA-E is on methane production, distribution, and use.  

Lewnard joins ARPA-E from Chesapeake Utilities Corporation where he served as Vice President of Business Development. At Chesapeake, he was responsible for identifying and developing new business opportunities in areas including natural gas, alternative fuels, combined heat and power systems, and renewable energy. Before joining Chesapeake, Lewnard served as Vice President and Chief Technology...Read more

Marina Sofos

Dr. Marina Sofos currently serves as a Program Director at the Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E). Her focus at ARPA-E is on novel materials and manufacturing, data analytics, and advanced control methods to improve the efficiency and flexibility of buildings and transportation.

Prior to ARPA-E, Sofos served as a Technology Manager in the Building Technologies Office (BTO) at the U.S. Department of Energy. In that position, she managed their R&D portfolio in sensor and control technologies with the goal of optimizing building operations to save energy and improve...Read more

Madhav Acharya

Dr. Madhav Acharya currently serves as a Technology-to-Market Advisor at the Department of Energy’s Advanced Research Projects Agency – Energy (ARPA-E), where he helps prepare innovative energy technologies for transition from the lab to the market. His focus at ARPA-E includes conversion of renewable energy into carbon neutral liquid fuels, low carbon cements and direct methane conversion to hydrogen and carbon.

He has a PhD in Chemical Engineering from the University of Delaware and spent 17 years in various technical and managerial roles at ExxonMobil. His initial work was in the...Read more

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