Friday, October 25th, 2024 | 10:30 am – 11:50 am
Corinne Scown, Deputy for Research, Energy Analysis & Environmental Impacts Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Location: 1605 Tilia Street, Suite 100, Davis, CA
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Corinne Scown is the Deputy Director for Research of the Energy Analysis and Environmental Impacts (EAEI) Division at LBNL, Vice President and founder of the Life-cycle, Economics, and Agronomy Division (LEAD) at the Joint BioEnergy Institute (JBEI), and Head of Sustainability at the Energy and Biosciences Institute (EBI). She holds a secondary appointment in the Biological Systems and Engineering Division at LBNL.
Scown’s expertise includes life-cycle assessment, technoeconomic analysis, biofuels and bioproducts, air quality impacts of vehicle electrification, strategies for atmospheric carbon removal, and co-management of energy and water. She has led projects funded by the U.S. Department of Energy, California Energy Commission, California Air Resources Board, and Energy Biosciences Institute. She has led the development of online tools for TEA, LCA, and bio-based feedstock assessment, including BioC2G and the Biositing tool.
Scown was awarded the ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering Lectureship in 2022 for her work on TEA and LCA of emerging technologies and served as a member of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine’s Committee on Current Methods for Life Cycle Analyses of Low-Carbon Transportation Fuels in the United States. Scown earned a B.S. in civil engineering with a double-major in engineering and public policy at Carnegie Mellon University, and she received her Ph.D. and M.S. in civil and environmental engineering at UC Berkeley.
