Arun Majumdar

Arun Majumdar is a materials scientist, engineer, andUniversity of California, Berkeley graduate who wasPresident Barack Obamas nominee for the Under Sec-retary of Energy between November 30, 2011 and May15, 2012.[1] He formerly ran the Environmental EnergyTechnologies Division at the Lawrence Berkeley NationalLaboratory, where he was also deputy director of LBNLas well as professor of mechanical engineering at theUniversity of California, Berkeley. He was nominated[2]to be the rst director of the U.S. Department of Energy'sAdvanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E)and appointed to that position in September 2009.On May 15, 2012, the White House withdrew Majum-dars nomination.[3]

On Dec 17, 2012, Google announced that Arun joinedGoogle to drive Google.orgs energy initiatives and advisethe company on their broader energy strategy.[4]

Arun is a leading scientist in the elds of thermoelectricmaterials, heat and mass transfer, thermal management,and waste heat recovery. He has published several hun-dred papers, patents, and conference proceedings,[5] andis a member of the National Academy of Engineering.On August 16, 2012, Arun Majumdar co-published apaper in Nature with United States Secretary of EnergySteven Chu on Opportunities and Challenges for a Sus-tainable Energy Future, as well as gave a talk on the paperon the subject at Stanford University.Arun Majumdar is now the Jay Precourt Professor atStanford University, where he serves on the faculty of theDepartment of Mechanical Engineering and is a SeniorFellow of the Precourt Institute for Energy.Majumdar was appointed Science Envoys of the US on 5December 2014

1 References[1] President Obama Announces More Key Administration

Posts. http://energy.gov. Retrieved 30 November 2011.

[2] llbl-nomination (September 18, 2009). White Housenominates Berkeley Labs Majumdar to head key DOEagency. Berkeley Lab News Center. Retrieved 2009-10-03.

[3] http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2012/05/15/presidential-nominations-and-withdrawal-sent-senate

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

[5] Arun-website. Arun Majumdars publications.

2 External links ARPA-E Arun Majumdars research group at Stanford Arun Majumdar at LBNL

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