Research Opportunities for CO2 Utilization and Negative Emissions at the Gigatonne Scale

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Arun Majumdar is the Jay Precourt Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Co-director of the Precourt Institute for Energy at Stanford University. He served as the Founding Director (2009–2012) of the Advanced Research Projects Agency – Energy (ARPA-E) and the Acting Undersecretary for Energy (2011–2012) under Secretary Steven Chu in the US Department of Energy. He also served as Vice Chair of the Advisory Board (2014–2017) to Secretary Ernest Moniz. Arun Majumdar has published widely on the science and engineering of conversion, storage, and transport of energy, especially in nanostructured materials and devices. He is a member of the US National Academy of Engineering and the American Academy of Arts and Science. John Deutch is an emeritus Institute Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology where he has been a member of the faculty since 1970. He has served as Chairman of the Department of Chemistry, Dean of Science, and Provost. In the Carter Administration, he served as Director of Energy Research (1977–1979), Acting Assistant Secretary for Energy Technology (1979), and Undersecretary (1979–1980) in the US Department of Energy. He has been a member of the President's Nuclear Safety Oversight Committee (1980–1981), the White House Science Council (1985–1989), the President's Committee of Advisors on Science and Technology (1997–2001), and the Secretary of the Energy Advisory Board (2008–2016). John Deutch has published widely on technical and policy aspects of energy and the environment and has been a member of the board of directors or of the technical advisory committees of several energy companies.