Addison K. Stark

Dr. Addison Killean Stark currently serves as a Fellow at ARPA-E, where he has served as Acting Program Director of the Advanced Research In Dry-cooling (ARID) program, a thermal engineering program with the goal of reducing the water consumed in power generation. Prior to joining ARPA-E, Dr. Stark completed his PhD at MIT where his dissertation work focused on elucidating the role of transport phenomena in the thermochemical conversion of biomass in fluidized bed reactors. In addition to the energy-water nexus, Dr. Stark's research interests include advanced chemical conversion technologies for natural gas and biomass, process intensification of chemical and thermal processes and leveraging advanced manufacturing technologies for novel chemical reactor designs and other multi-physics devices.