Speakers
Dr. William Tumas
Associate Laboratory Director, National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL)
2013- Associate Laboratory Director, Materials and Chemical
Science and Technology, National Renewable Energy
Laboratory (NREL)
2014- Director Center for Next Generation of Materials Design
Energy Frontier Research Center, NREL
2011-2014 Director, Center for Inverse Design Energy Frontier
Research Center, NREL
2009-2013 Chemical and Materials Science Center Director, NREL
2009- Point of Contact, DOE Office of Science-Basic Energy
Science, NREL
2006-2009 Program Director for Applied Energy Programs, Los Alamos National
Laboratory (LANL)
2005-2007 Director, DOE Center of Excellence for Chemical Hydrogen Storage, LANL
2004-2006 Program Manager, Hydrogen Programs, LANL
2002-2003 Acting Director, Office of Science Programs, LANL
1994-2005 Group Leader, Inorganic Chemistry, LANL
1993-1994 Research Scientist, LANL
1989-1993 Project Leader, Oxidation/Environmental Catalysis, DuPont Central Research
1987-1989 Research Chemist, DuPont Central Research
1985-1987 NIH and Weizmann Postdoctoral Fellow, California Institute of Technology
1980-1985 NSF and Hertz Foundation Graduate Fellow, Stanford University
1980 Summer Intern, Allied Chemical Company
Research Biography
2011- Solar Energy Conversion; Materials Design; Materials Science
2009-2011 Green Chemistry, Solar Energy Conversion, Materials Science
2004-2009 – Catalysis; Chemical Hydrogen Storage; Hydrogen/Fuel Cells; Green Chemistry
1993-2003 Catalysis in Supercritical Fluids; Homogeneous Catalysis; Multiphase Catalysis
Green Chemistry
1990-1993 Environmental Catalysis; Waste Treatment Technology Development
1987-1993 Organometallic Chemistry; Homogeneous Catalysis;
1984-1987 Organometallic Chemistry; Photochemistry
1980-1985 Gas Phase Ion Reaction Dynamics; Infra-red Photochemistry
1980 Laser Photocatalysis of Metal Carbonyls; Organometallic Photochemistry
1976-1980 Physical Organic Chemistry; Reaction Mechanisms of Elimination Reactions
Academic Background
1985 Ph.D. in Organic Chemistry, Stanford University
1980 Bachelor of Arts, Chemistry, Ithaca College
