Dr. Elizabeth Saade Saade holds a B.S. in Chemical Engineering from the Monterrey Institute of Technology in Monterrey, Mexico (2006), and a Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Colorado (2013). She joined Nikola Corporation in 2021 as a Lead Computation Fluid Dynamics (CFD) simulation engineer in the Hydrogen Storage team.

Elizabeth has over 10 years of experience in modeling dynamic systems for clean energy applications. She has authored three journal publications and presented at multiple conferences. In her role at Nikola, Elizabeth focuses on modeling the...Read more

Prof. Scheffe received his Ph.D. from the University of Colorado in the group of Prof. Alan Weimer with a focus on high temperature thermochemical processes and advanced thin film material development and characterization. Following his time in Boulder he served as a Postdoctoral Researcher and Senior Research Associate in the laboratory of Prof. Aldo Steinfeld at ETH Zurich. There, his focus was primarily on material and reactor development for solar driven thermochemical processes.

Currently, Prof. Scheffe serves as head of the Renewable Energy Conversion Laboratory within the...Read more

James A. Dumesic earned his B.S. degree from UW-Madison and his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from Stanford University, under the supervision of Professor Michel Boudart.  Dumesic joined the Department of Chemical Engineering in 1976, and he is currently the Steenbock Chair in the College of Engineering and the Michel Boudart Professor of Chemical and Biological...Read more