Highlight Seminar Line-up
Through the Highlight Seminar Series, the Andlinger Center hosts distinguished professors, researchers, government dignitaries, and practitioners from various institutions across the field of energy and the environment for a lecture series open to the public.
Video recordings of past seminars can be found in our highlight seminar’s YouTube playlist.
Line-up for the 2022-2023 academic year:
May 11 - "Publishing Research and Opinion at Nature Sustainability" (Postponed)
Monica Contestabile
Nature Sustainability
April 27 - "Solid-state Batteries: Opportunities and a Challenge of Interfaces"
Sir Peter Bruce
Wolfson Professor of Materials in the Department of Materials
University of Oxford
March 30 - "Solar Geoengineering: Known, Unknown, and Unknowable"
David Keith
Gordon McKay Professor of Applied Physics, Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences
Professor of Public Policy for the Harvard Kennedy School
Harvard University
February 16 - "The Role of Carbon Capture in Meeting Net-zero Carbon Goals"
Jennifer Wilcox
Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for Fossil Energy and Carbon Management, Office of Fossil Energy
U.S. Department of Energy
November 10 - "Climate Models Are Good; Can AI Make Them Better?"
Christopher Bretherton
Professor Emeritus
University of Washington
October 12 - "Wastewater and Beyond: From Treatment to Resource"
Bruce Rittmann
Regents’ Professor of Environmental Engineering
Arizona State University
October 6 - "Reducing the Energy Costs of Chemical Manufacturing: Bioinspired Light-Escalated Chemistry (BioLEC)"
Gabriela Schlau-Cohen
Associate Professor of Chemistry
Massachusetts Institute of Technology