Arun Majumdar

Arun Majumdar is a materials scientist, engineer, and

University of California, Berkeley graduate who was
President Barack Obamas nominee for the Under Secretary of Energy between November 30, 2011 and May
15, 2012.[1] He formerly 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[2]
to be the rst director of the U.S. Department of Energy's
Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E)
and appointed to that position in September 2009.

[4] http://blog.google.org/2012/12/
an-energetic-welcome-to-arun-majumdar.html
[5] Arun-website. Arun Majumdars publications.

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ARPA-E
Arun Majumdars research group at Stanford
Arun Majumdar at LBNL

On May 15, 2012, the White House withdrew Majumdars nomination.[3]

On Dec 17, 2012, Google announced that Arun joined
Google to drive Google.orgs energy initiatives and advise
the company on their broader energy strategy.[4]
Arun is a leading scientist in the elds of thermoelectric
materials, heat and mass transfer, thermal management,
and waste heat recovery. He has published several hundred papers, patents, and conference proceedings,[5] and
is a member of the National Academy of Engineering.
On August 16, 2012, Arun Majumdar co-published a
paper in Nature with United States Secretary of Energy
Steven Chu on Opportunities and Challenges for a Sustainable Energy Future, as well as gave a talk on the paper
on the subject at Stanford University.
Arun Majumdar is now the Jay Precourt Professor at
Stanford University, where he serves on the faculty of the
Department of Mechanical Engineering and is a Senior
Fellow of the Precourt Institute for Energy.
Majumdar was appointed Science Envoys of the US on 5
December 2014

References

[1] President Obama Announces More Key Administration

Posts. http://energy.gov. Retrieved 30 November 2011.
[2] llbl-nomination (September 18, 2009). White House
nominates Berkeley Labs Majumdar to head key DOE
agency. Berkeley Lab News Center. Retrieved 2009-1003.
[3] http://www.whitehouse.gov/
the-press-office/2012/05/15/
presidential-nominations-and-withdrawal-sent-senate

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