Arun Majumdar

Arun Majumdar is a materials scientist, engineer, and Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay graduate who formally ran the Environmental Energy Technologies Division at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, where he was also deputy director of LBNL as well as professor of mechanical engineering at the University of California, Berkeley. He was nominated^[1] to be the first director of the U.S. Department of Energy's Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) and appointed to that position in September 2009. This position has been dubbed America's "Green Czar."^[1]

Arun is a leading scientist is the fields of thermoelectric materials, heat and mass transfer, thermal management, and waste heat recovery. He has published several hundred papers, patents, and conference proceedings,^[2] and is a member of the National Academy of Engineering.

References

1. ^ ^{a b} "White House nominates Berkeley Lab’s Majumdar to head key DOE agency". Berkeley Lab News Center. September 18, 2009. http://newscenter.lbl.gov/press-releases/2009/09/18/arpa-e-nomination/. Retrieved 2009-10-03. 
2. ^ "Arun Majumdar's publications". http://web.mac.com/majumdargroup/iWeb/Site/Publications.html. 

External links

• ARPA-E
• Arun Majumdar's former UC Berkeley faculty website
• Arun Majumdar at LBNL

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