Vattenfall - Professor Robert Socolow

Professor Robert Socolow

Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department, Princeton University

Professor Socolow's current research focuses on global carbon management, the hydrogen economy, and fossil-carbon sequestration. He is the co-principal investigator (with ecologist Stephen Pacala) of Princeton University's Carbon Mitigation Initiative (CMI), a $20-million dollar, ten-year (2001-2010) project, supported by BP and Ford. Under CMI, Princeton has launched new, coordinated research in environmental science, energy technology, geological engineering, and public policy. In July 1997 Socolow co-chaired the Workshop on Fuels Decarbonisation and Carbon Sequestration, sponsored by the U.S. Department of Energy. Other research interests include efficient use of energy, renewable energy, nuclear energy, and the nitrogen cycle.