Building a clean future:
Decarbonizing cement, steel,
and other heavy industries
Speakers
Jack Andreasen
Manager, Carbon Management, United States Policy and Advocacy, Breakthrough Energy
Andreasen oversees the carbon management portfolio, including designing policy proposals and identifying key legislative and administrative opportunities for carbon dioxide removal technologies, transport, and storage/usage. Prior to joining Breakthrough Energy, Andreasens was the energy policy advisor at The Climate Reality Project educating the public, private industry, and governments on the role clean energy will play over the next 50 years. Before this, he was an engineering design associate at Duke Energy in the distributed generation interconnection division. Here he crafted public policy on interconnection queue reform and made mathematical models for solar cost estimations. Andreasen has a bachelor of science degree in biological science from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and master of environmental science, master of public affairs from the Indiana University O’Neill School.
Emmanuel Gallucci
Head Global Research Construction Materials, Sika Technology AG
Gallucci has over 20 years of experience in cement chemistry across academia and industry. Currently, he is Head of Global Research on Construction Materials at Sika Technology AG. In this role, he defines and manages Sika’s strategic research agenda, with a strong focus on novel chemical admixtures, systems, and solutions that enable decarbonization in the construction industry. He manages several R&D teams located across the globe, specializing in the interaction between mineral surfaces, inorganic binders, and organic and polymeric chemicals. Gallucci earned a Ph.D. in physical chemistry from Université de Lyon in France with a specialty in crystallography and thermodynamics. He has published over 35 scientific articles and holds more than 20 patents.
Phil Hodgson
Chief Executive Officer and Managing Director, Calix Limited
Hodgson joined Calix as CEO in 2013, was appointed a director in 2014, and is a member of Calix’s technology committee. Hodgson has a technical and commercial background from a successful career with Shell, where for over 14 years he developed significant depth of experience across all key sectors of the downstream oil industry including refining and supply, marketing and sales, pricing strategy, risk management, corporate strategy and mergers and acquisitions. From 2007 to 2013, Hodgson ran his own consultancy providing project development, commercial and M&A, and management expertise to a number of sectors including LNG, biofuel, clean coal, geothermal energy, building products, logistics and fast moving consumer goods. Hodgson holds a bachelor’s degree in chemical engineering with honors from the University of Sydney and a Ph.D. in chemical engineering from the UNSW Sydney.
Maria Juenger
L.B. (Preach) Meaders Professor of Engineering in the Maseeh Department of Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering, The University of Texas, Austin
Juenger is the L.B. (Preach) Meaders Professor of Engineering in the Fariborz Maseeh Department of Civil, Architectural, and Environmental Engineering at the University of Texas at Austin. Juenger’s teaching and research focus on materials used in civil engineering applications, with an emphasis on chemical issues in cement-based materials. Juenger is a fellow of the American Concrete Institute (ACI) and the American Ceramic Society (ACerS) and currently serves as Vice President of ACI. Juenger received her bachelor of science degree in chemistry and spanish from Duke University and Ph.D. in materials science and engineering from Northwestern University. After completing her Ph.D., she was a postdoctoral researcher in civil engineering at the University at California, Berkeley before coming to the University of Texas at Austin.
Robert Kumpf
Managing Director, Deloitte Consulting LLP
Kumpf is managing director and a leader in Deloitte’s Energy and Chemicals Practice. He is a chemicals and specialty materials executive with more than 35 years of experience across multiple geographies and functions. In industry roles, Kumpf has led innovation teams that developed new products and applications in advanced composites, electronic chemicals, lubricants and engineering polymers, personal care, and pharmaceutical applications. At Deloitte, he focuses on heavy industry decarbonization and accelerating innovation via Material Informatics. Prior to joining Deloitte, Kumpf spent 25 years at Bayer, was COO and CTO at Plextronics, and served as CTO of Elevance Renewable Sciences, leading innovation and engineering activities. He has a Ph.D. from Pennsylvania State University in material science.
Paul Majsztrik
Program Manager, Industrial Efficiency and Decarbonization Office (IEDO), U.S. Department of Energy
Majsztrik is program manager in the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Industrial Efficiency and Decarbonization Office (IEDO). At DOE, he leads an industrial decarbonization program focused on developing emerging technologies through applied research, development and demonstration (RD&D). The program focuses on the hard to abate sectors and includes chemicals and fuels, iron and steel, cement and concrete, food and beverage, forest products, and other sectors. Prior to joining DOE, Majsztrik spent 15 years leading private sector RD&D in the “Greentech” space across multiple technologies and sectors. This includes CO2 to chemicals at Liquid Light (a Princeton spinout), low carbon cement and concrete, and novel solar silicon process development. His background is in mechanical engineering and chemistry. Majsztrik received a Ph.D. in chemistry and materials from Princeton University in 2008.
Shivakumar Kuppuswamy
Development and Innovation Director, ResponsibleSteel
Kuppuswamy is a metallurgical engineer with over 30 years of experience in steel and engineering. He has a deep understanding of the industry’s decarbonization challenges. Kuppuswamy ensures that ResponsibleSteel delivers impact in line with our mission to drive the responsible production of net-zero steel and demonstrate the effectiveness of the “Theory of Change.” Prior to joining ResponsibleSteel, he managed his own advisory engaging in energy, construction, and metallurgical engineering services in Canada, India, and the GCC region. In addition to a bachelor’s degree in Metallurgical Engineering, Kuppuswamy also holds a master’s degree in climate change from the University of Waterloo, Canada.
Iain McCulloch
Director, Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment, Gerhard R. Andlinger Professor in Energy and the Environment, and Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Princeton University
McCulloch is the director of the Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment and a professor of electrical and computer engineering at Princeton University, as well as holding a visiting professor position in the Department of Chemistry at the University of Oxford. He previously held joint appointments as Professor of Chemical Science and Director of KAUST Solar Center at KAUST, as well as a Chair in Polymer Materials in the Chemistry Department at Imperial College. Before joining academia, he spent 18 years managing industrial research groups at Hoechst in the U.S. and Merck in the U.K. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society, the Royal Society of Chemistry, the European Academy of Sciences and a Member of Academia Europaea. He is the recipient of the 2022 Royal Society Armourers and Brasiers Prize, the 2020 Blaise Pascal Medal for Materials Science, the Royal Society of Chemistry 2020 Interdisciplinary Prize, 2014 Tilden Medal for Advances in Chemistry and the 2009 Creativity in Industry Prize. His interests are in the design and investigation of organic semiconducting materials.
Anne McPhee
Vice President, Business Development, Chemicals and Fuels, Worley Consulting
Worley Consulting is the consulting arm of Worley, a global engineering company focused on the energy, chemicals, and resources industry. McPhee is responsible for global oversight for business development and strategy of the chemicals and fuels service line in Worley Consulting. She has extensive experience in early-stage capital project development, new technology assessment, and strategic planning in the refining, petrochemical, and energy industries. McPhee is passionate about sustainability, carbon emissions reductions, and helping customers achieve their decarbonization targets. She holds a B.A.Sc. in chemical engineering from the University of Toronto, and an M.B.A. from York University, Toronto.
Barry Rand
Associate Director for External Partnerships, Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment, Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and the Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment, Princeton University
Rand joined the Princeton University faculty in 2013. His research interests highlight the border between electrical engineering, materials science, chemistry, and applied physics, covering electronic and optoelectronic thin-films and devices. He has authored approximately 200 refereed journal publications and holds 25 issued U.S. patents. He has received several awards and accolades, including the 3M Nontenured Faculty Award (2014), DuPont Young Professor Award (2015), DARPA Young Faculty Award (2015), and ONR Young Investigator Program Award (2016). Rand earned a B.E. in electrical engineering from The Cooper Union in 2001 and received M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from Princeton University. From 2007 to 2013, he was at imec in Leuven, Belgium, ultimately as a principal scientist, researching the understanding, optimization, and manufacturability of thin-film solar cells.
Isabelle Rojas
Senior Principal Scientist, Program Supervisor, Energetics
Rojas is a certified project management professional and senior principal scientist at Energetics with 20 years of experience in the building industry. She is an expert in sustainable cement and concrete with deep proficiency in product development from bench scale to industrial pilot scale. At Energetics, Rojas exercises her cement and concrete expertise, primarily in support of the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), with the Industrial Efficiency and Decarbonization Office (IEDO), in its efforts to decarbonize those two sectors. Prior to arriving at Energetics, she was a senior engineer and a project manager for the private sector for 10 years. She directed projects in Europe and in North America for ready-mix and precast concrete applications and delivered new carbon sequestration and mineralization techniques for new applications. She holds two patents: one for a fast hydraulic binder containing a calcium salt, meant for construction made of concrete, and another for the use of cellulose ether for reducing plastic shrinkage and cracking in concrete. Rojas graduated with a master’s degree in manufacturing project management from l’Ecole Superieure des Mines de Saint-Etienne in 2014. She also has two bachelor’s degrees: one in materials and chemistry and another in synthesis and technology of organic-based polymer materials.
Daniel Stewart
Senior Steel Industry Engineer, Energetics
Stewart works as a steel industry engineer for Energetics. In this role, Stewart supports the Industrial Efficiency and Decarbonization Office’s (IEDO) iron and steel portfolio. His area of expertise includes iron and steel manufacturing, process modelling, decarbonization, and byproduct recovery. Prior to joining Energetics, Stewart worked as a research engineer for ArcelorMittal in East Chicago, Indiana. Previously, he has worked internationally, working in R&D for a major U.K., steel producer for five years working on recovery of zinc from the integrated steelmaking process, slag engineering and novel alternative ironmaking processes. Stewart has a bachelor’s degree from Cardiff University in chemistry and was awarded his doctorate’s degree in materials engineering from Swansea University. He has published six peer-reviewed journal articles, two provisional patents and first name authored two conference papers in the steelmaking field through the course of his research.
Harry Warren
President, CleanGrid Advisors LLC; Non-resident Fellow, Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment, Princeton University
Warren is President of CleanGrid Advisors LLC, a renewable energy consulting firm, and co-founder of the Center for Renewables Integration, a 501c3 non-profit working to advance the penetration of renewable energy on the grid. He is a non-resident Fellow at Princeton University’s Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment and is currently engaged as a senior consultant at the Loan Programs Office of the U.S. Department of Energy. Warren is a former executive vice president at Community Energy, Inc., and former President of Washington Gas Energy Services, Inc., a leading retail electricity and natural gas marketer. WGES was named Green Power Supplier of the Year in the non-utility category by the U.S. Department of Energy in 2011 and was given a Mayor’s Sustainability Award by the District of Columbia Department of the Environment in 2013. He holds a bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering from Princeton University and a master’s degree in mechanical engineering from Stanford University.
Claire White
Associate Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering and the Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment, Princeton University
White’s research focuses on understanding and optimizing engineering and environmental materials, with an emphasis on controlling the chemical mechanisms responsible for formation and long-term degradation of sustainable cements. Other areas of research include conventional cements, new materials for carbon dioxide capture and utilization, industrial waste recycling, and fundamentals of silicates dissolution. This research spans multiple length and time scales, utilizing advanced synchrotron and neutron-based experimental techniques, and simulation methodologies founded at the nanoscale. A component of White’s research involves technique development (experiment and simulation) and advanced data analysis methods.
Lachlan Wright
Manager, Climate Intelligence, RMI
Wright is a manager with RMI’s Climate Intelligence Program, where he focuses on efforts to reduce emissions in heavy industry. His work includes developing and deploying carbon accounting frameworks specific to industrial sectors (e.g., steel, aluminum) to enable the development of a differentiated commodities market for products with low embodied emissions. Prior to RMI, Wright worked as a senior engineer at Hatch in Australia, focusing on the development of base and battery (i.e., lithium and nickel) metals projects. Wright specialized in the delivery of feasibility studies, including process design and technoeconomic modeling.
Davide Zampini
Vice President of Global Research and Development, CEMEX
With over 30 years of experience in the construction materials industry, Zampini is on a continuous and relentless quest to push the limits of innovation when it comes to cement-based products and building solutions. Through the adoption of a design and industrialization-driven innovation approach, Zampini leads a multi-disciplinary and culturally diverse team at CEMEX’s Center for Innovation and Technology. Zampini’s team in Switzerland does not limit itself to developing novel functionalities in cement-based materials, but CEMEX’s adaptive research and development model has been conceived with a given versatility, and thus allows for the incorporation of customer-centered strategies that are designed to create strong emotional ties to a material that for ages has been considered “grey.”