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Driving Our Mission
Our Experts
Contact us to discuss current or potential projects, programs, or collaborations.
![Alexander Azenkeng](/_files/images/employees/alex_azenkeng.jpg)
Assistant Director for Critical Materials
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- Rare earth elements
- Carbon-based materials
![Nick Bosshart](/_files/images/employees/bosshart_nicholas.jpg)
Assistant Director for Geoscience & Engineering
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- Geologic characterization
- Geologic modeling and simulation
- Unconventional reservoirs
- Produced water disposal
- Enhanced oil recovery
- Saline formation CO2 storage
![Kevin Connors](/_files/images/employees/connors_kevin.jpg)
Assistant Director for Regulatory Compliance and Energy Policy
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- Regulatory policy permitting
- Regulatory interpretation related to geologic storage of CO2
- Enhanced oil recovery
- Unconventional oil and gas development
![Beth Kurz](/_files/images/employees/kurz_bethany.jpg)
Director of Subsurface Characterization and Community Engagement
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- Geologic characterization
- Produced water management
- Fluids testing for EOR
- Subsurface brine disposal
- Assessment of high-value materials in coal and produced brine
- Resource management
- Advanced materials
- Value added products from coal
- Materials science, rare-earth elements (REEs)
- Alloy and corrosion testing
- Outreach and Community Engagement
![Kerryanne Leroux](/_files/images/employees/leroux_kerryanne.jpg)
Assistant Director for Integrated CCS and Alternative Energy
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- Industrial CCS
- Combined heat and power
- Biofuels
![Tyler Newman](/_files/images/employees/newman_tyler.jpg)
Senior Research Engineer
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- Instrumentation and controls
- Fluidized systems
- Combustion and gasification systems
- Pressurized systems
- Refractory materials
- Process design and modeling
- Mechanical design
- Precision machining and manufacturing processes
![Wes Peck](/_files/images/employees/peck_wesley.jpg)
Assistant Director for Subsurface Strategies
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- Geologic characterization
- Enhanced oil recovery (EOR)
- CO2 capture, utilization and storage
- Policy, regulatory and permitting strategy
![Jim Sorensen](/_files/images/employees/sorensen-james.jpg)
Director of Subsurface R&D
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- Reservoir characterization and enhanced oil recovery (EOR) in unconventional tight oil formations
- CO2 utilization and storage in geologic formations
- Tight oil resource assessment and development
![Josh Strege](/_files/images/employees/strege_joshua.jpg)
Assistant Director for Energy Systems
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- Gasification systems technologies, combustion systems technologies
- CO2 capture technologies
- Membrane separation systems
- Hydrogen technologies
- Process modeling using Aspen software
![Chad Wocken](/_files/images/employees/wocken_chad.jpg)
Assistant Director for Clean Energy Solutions
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- Hydrogen production, infrastructure, and use
- Oil and gas processing
- Alternative and renewable fuels development
- Process optimization
- Electrochemistry
- Environmental remediation
- Thermal management and hybrid cooling systems
- Grid Management
- Fuel Cells
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![Nikki Massmann](/_files/images/employees/massmann_nicole.jpg)
Director of Communications and Information Systems
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