Updated August 2022

Corinne D. Scown, Ph.D.
Offices &Contact

Positions

1 Cyclotron Road, 90-4126D
Lawrence Berkeley National Lab
Berkeley, CA 94720 USA

Phone: (510) 486-4507
E-mail: cdscown@lbl.gov
Website: cscown.com

5885 Hollis Street, 978-4124
Joint BioEnergy Institute
Emeryville, CA 94608 USA

Phone: (510) 486-4507
E-mail: cdscown@lbl.gov
Website: jbei.org

Deputy Div. Director, Staff Scientist
Sustainable Energy Systems Group
Energy Analysis & Environmental Impacts Div.
Energy Technologies Area
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

VP Life-cycle, Economics, & Agronomy Div.
Joint BioEnergy InstituteHead of Sustainability Analysis
Energy Biosciences Institute, UC Berkeley

Co-Founder & President, Cyklos Materials
Research
Interests

Bioenergy and bioproducts, wastewater treatment and organic waste management systems, biodegradable and circular polymers, life-cycle assessment, technoeconomic modeling. Personal website:www.cscown.com

Education

University of California, Berkeley, USA
Ph.D., Civil Engineering, December 2010
• Dissertation Title: “Life-Cycle Water Impacts of U.S. Transportation Fuels”• Advisor: Arpad Horvath
M.S., Civil Engineering, May 2008
Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania USA
B.S., Civil Engineering, December, 2006
double major in Engineering and Public Policy

Peer-Reviewed
Publications

72. Nawa Raj Baral, Minliang Yang, Deepanwita Banerjee, Aindrila Mukhopadhyay, Blake A.
Simmons, Steven W. Singer, Corinne D. Scown* (Expected 2022). “Influence of titer,rate, yield, and lignin-derived aromatic monomer utilization on the cost and carbon footprint
microbially-produced biofuels.” Under revision for Energy & Environmental Science. Role:
Major (Lead PI)
71. Yan Wang, Nawa Raj Baral, Minliang Yang, Corinne D. Scown* (Expected 2022). “Coprocessing agricultural residues and wet organic waste can produce lower-cost carbon-negative
fuels and bioplastics.” Under review at Joule. Role: Major (Lead PI) Preprint available
at: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4167270
70. Sarah L. Nordahl, Chelsea V. Preble, Thomas W. Kirchstetter, Corinne D. Scown* (Expected 2022). “Greenhouse gas and air pollutant emissions from composting ” Under rereview Environmental Science & Technology. Role: Major (Lead PI)
69. Chien-Yuan Lin, Yang Tian, Kimberly Nelson-Vasilchik, Joel Hague, Ramu Kakumanu, Mi
Yeon Lee, Venkataramana R. Pidatala, Jessica Trinh, Christopher M. De Ben, Jutta Dalton,
Trent R. Northen, Edward E. K. Baidoo, Blake A. Simmons, John M. Gladden, Corinne D.
Scown, Daniel H. Putnam, Albert P. Kausch, Henrik V. Scheller, Aymerick Eudes (Expected2022). “Engineering sorghum for higher 4-hydroxybenzoic acid content.” Under review at
Metabolic Engineering Communications. Role: Minor

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68. Kevin Orner*, Sarah Smith, Sarah Nordahl, Alicia Chakrabarti, Hanna Breunig, Corinne
D. Scown, HL Leverenz, Kara Nelson, Arpad Horvath (Expected 2022).“Environmental
and Economic Impacts of Managing Nutrients in Digestate Derived from Sewage Sludge andHigh-Strength Organic Waste.” Accepted w/ revisions to Environmental Science & Technology.
Role: Minor
67. Corinne D. Scown* (Expected 2022). “Prospects for carbon-negative biomanufacturing.”
Accepted w/ revisions to Trends in Biotechnology. Role: Sole author
66. Yang Tian, Minliang Yang, Chien-Yuan Lin, Joon-Hyun Park, Chuan-Yin Wu, Ramu Kakumanu, Christopher M. De Ben, Jutta Dalton, Khanh M. Vuu, Patrick M. Shih, Edward E. K.
Baidoo, Stephen Temple, Daniel H. Putnam, Henrik V. Scheller, Corinne D. Scown*, Aymerick Eudes* (Expected 2022). “Expression of dehydroshikimate dehydratase in sorghum
improves biomass yield, accumulation of protocatechuate, and biorefinery economics” In press
at ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering. Role: Major
65. Nawa Raj Baral*, Shruti K. Mishra, Anthe George, Sagar Gautam, Umakant Mishra, Corinne
D. Scown (Expected 2022). “Multifunctional Landscapes for Dedicated Bioenergy Crops
Lead to Low-Carbon Market-Competitive Biofuels.” In press at Renewable & Sustainable
Energy Reviews. Role: Minor
64. Ezinne C. Achinivu, Mica Cabrera, Athiyya Shaheen Umar Malick, Minliang Yang, Nawa Raj
Baral, Corinne D. Scown, Blake A. Simmons, John Gladden*, (Expected 2022). “In Situ
Synthesis of Protic Ionic Liquids for Biomass Pretreatment.” In press at ACS Sustainable
Chemistry & Engineering. Role: Minor
63. Jérémy Demarteau, Alexander R. Epstein, Peter R. Christiansen, Mark Abubekerov, Hai
Wang, Simon J. Teat, Trevor J. Seguin, Christopher W. Chan, Corinne D. Scown, Thomas
P. Russel, Jay D. Keasling, Kristin A. Persson, Brett A. Helms* (Expected 2022). “Circularity in Mixed Plastics Chemical Recycling Enabled by Variable Rates of Polydiketoenamine
Hydrolysis.” Science Advances, available at ChemRxiv. DOI: 110.1126/sciadv.abp882 Role:
Minor
62. Minliang Yang, Di Liu, Nawa Raj Baral, Chien-Yuan Lin, Blake A. Simmons, John M. Gladden, Aymerick Eudes, Corinne D. Scown* (2022). “Comparing in planta accumulation
with microbial routes to set targets for a cost-competitive bioeconomy.” Proceedings of the
National Academy of Sciences. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2122309119 Role: Major (Lead PI)
61. Pablo Cruz-Morales, Kevin Yin, Alexander Landera, John R. Cort, Robert P. Young, Jennifer
E. Kyle, Robert Bertrand, Anthony T. Iavarone, Suneil Acharya, Aidan Cowan, Yan Chen,
Jennifer W. Gin, Corinne D. Scown, Christopher J. Petzold, Carolina Araujo-Barcelos, Eric
Sundstrom, Anthe George, Yuzhong Liu, Sarah Klass, Alberto A. Nava, Jay D. Keasling*,(2022). “Biosynthesis of polycyclopropanated high energy biofuels.” Joule.
DOI: 10.1016/j.joule.2022.05.011 Role: Minor
60. Ana E. Comesana, Tyler Huntington, Corinne D. Scown, Kyle E. Niemeyer, Vi H. Rapp*(2022). “A systematic method for selecting molecular descriptors as features when training models for predicting physiochemical properties.” Fuel. DOI: 10.1016/j.fuel.2022.123836
Role: Minor (Co-PI)
59. Sagar Gautam*, Umakant Mishra, Corinne D. Scown, Skye A. Willis, Kabindra Adhikari,
Beth A. Drewniak (2022). “Continental United States May Lose 1.8 Petagrams of Soil
Organic Carbon Under Climate Change by 2100” Global Ecology and Biogeography. DOI:
10.1111/geb.13489 Role: Minor
58. Corinne D. Scown*, Jay D. Keasling* (2022). “Sustainable manufacturing with synthetic
biology: Producing commodity chemicals with engineered bacteria that live on industrial
waste gases captures more greenhouse gases than it emits.” Nature Biotechnology. DOI:
10.1038/s41587-022-01248-8 Role: Major

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57. Jérémy Demarteau, Nemi Vora, Jay D. Keasling, Brett A. Helms*, Corinne D. Scown*(2022). “Lower-Cost, Lower-Carbon Production of Infinitely Recyclable Polydiketoenamine
Plastics.” ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering. DOI: 10.1021/acssuschemeng.1c07851
Role: Major (Co-PI & Work Lead)
56. Hanna Breunig*, Sarah Josephine Smith, Laxmi Rao, Alastair Robinson, Jacky Kinson, RobertThornton, Corinne D. Scown, Vi Rapp (2022) “Economic and greenhouse gas analysis ofregional bioenergy-powered district energy systems in California.” Resources, Conservation,& Recycling. DOI: 10.1016/j.resconrec.2022.106187 Role: Moderate
55. Deepanwita Banerjee, Thomas Eng, Yusuke Sasaki, Aparajitha Srinivasan, Asun Oka, Robin
A. Herbert, Jessica Trinh, Vasanth R. Singan, Ning Sun, Dan Putnam, Corinne D. Scown,
Blake Simmons, Aindrila Mukhopadhyay* (2021). “Genomics Characterization of an engineered Corynebacterium glutamicum in Bioreactor Cultivation under Ionic Liquid Stress.”
Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology. DOI: 10.3389/fbioe.2021.766674 Role: Minor
54. Ezinne C. Achinivu, Skye Frank, Nawa Raj Baral, Lalitendu Das, Mood Mohan, Peter Otoupal,
Emara Shabir, Sean Utan, Corinne D. Scown, Blake A. Simmons, John Gladden*. (2021).
“Alkanolamines as Dual Functional Solvents for Biomass Deconstruction and Bioenergy Production.” Green Chemistry. DOI: 10.1039/D1GC02667D Role: Moderate
53. Aashutosh Mistry, Ankit Verma, Shashank Sripad, Rebecca Ciez, Valentin Sulzer, FerranBrosa Planella, Robert Timms, Yumin Zhang, Rachel Kurchin, Philipp Dechent, Weihan Li,
Samuel Greenbank, Dilip Krishnamurthy, Alexis M. Fenton Jr., Kevin Tenny, Prehit Patel,
Daniel Juarez Robles, Paul Gasper, Andrew Colclasure, Artem Baskin, Corinne D. Scown,
Venkat Subramanian, Edwin Khoo, Srikanth Allu, David Howey, Steven DeCaluwe, Scott A.
Roberts, Venkatasubramanian Viswanathan* (2021). “A Minimal Information Set to Enable
Verifiable Theoretical Battery Research.” DOI: 10.1021/acsenergylett.1c01710 ACS Energy
Letters. Role: Minor
52. Kevin D. Orner*, Sarah Josephine Smith, Hanna M. Breunig, Corinne D. Scown, Kara
Nelson (2021). “Fertilizer Demand and Potential Supply through Nutrient Recovery from
Organic Waste Digestate in California.” DOI: 10.1016/j.watres.2021.117717 Water Research.
Role: Minor
51. Yan Wang, Tyler Huntington, Corinne D. Scown* (2021). “Tree-Based Automated Machine Learning to Predict Biogas Production for Anaerobic Co-Digestion of Organic Waste.”ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering. DOI: 10.1021/acssuschemeng.1c04612 Role: Major (Lead PI)
50. Nawa Raj Baral, Minliang Yang, Benjamin G. Harvey, Blake A. Simmons, Aindrila Mukhopadhyay, Taek Soon Lee, Corinne D. Scown* (2021). “Production Cost and Carbon Footprintof Biomass-Derived Dimethylcyclooctane as a High Performance Jet fuel Blendstock.” ACS
Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering. DOI: 10.1021/acssuschemeng.1c03772 Role: Major(Lead PI)
49. Fan Tong, Alan Jenn, Derek Wolfson, Corinne D. Scown*, Maximilian Auffhammer* (2021)“Energy consumption and charging load profiles of long-haul truck electrification.” Environmental Research: Infrastructure and Sustainability. DOI: 10.1088/2634-4505/ac186a Role:
Major (Lead PI)
48. Jason Porzio, Corinne D. Scown* (2021). “Life-Cycle Assessment Considerations for Batteries and Battery Materials.” Advanced Energy Materials. DOI: 10.1002/aenm.202100771
Role: Major (Lead PI, Wrote majority of paper)
47. Fan Tong, Alan Jenn, Derek Wolfson, Corinne D. Scown*, Maximilian Auffhammer* (2021).
“Energy, Health, and Climate Impacts from Long-Haul Truck Electrification.” Environmental
Science & Technology. DOI: 10.1021/acs.est.1c01273 Role: Major (Lead PI)

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46. Minliang Yang, Jeff Dahlberg, Nawa Raj Baral, Daniel Putnam, Corinne D. Scown* (2021).
“Identifying forage sorghum ideotypes for advanced biorefineries.” ACS Sustainable Chemistry& Engineering. DOI: 10.1021/acssuschemeng.1c01706 Role: Major (Lead PI)
45. Sarah Josephine Smith*, Andrew Satchwell, Thomas W. Kirchstetter, Corinne D. Scown(2021). “The implications of facility design and enabling policies on the economics of dry
anaerobic digestion.” Waste Management. DOI: 10.1016/j.wasman.2021.04.048 Role: Moderate
44. Christopher DelRe, Yufeng Jiang, Philjun Kang, Junpyo Kwon, Zhiyuan Ruan, Le Ma, Aaron
Hall, Kyle Zolkin, Tim Li, Corinne D. Scown, Robert O. Ritchie, Thomas P. Russell, Ting
Xu* (2021). “Nanoscopic Enzyme Dispersion Enables Near Complete Depolymerization ofPolyesters With Programmable Latency.” Nature. DOI: 10.1038/s41586-021-03408-3 Role:
Minor
43. Harsha D. Magurudeniya, Nawa Raj Baral, Alberto Rodriguez, Corinne D. Scown, Jeff
Dahlberg, Daniel Putnam, Anthe George, Blake A. Simmons, and John M. Gladden* (2021).
“Use of Ensiled Biomass Sorghum Increases Ionic Liquid Pretreatment Efficiency and Reduces
Biofuel Production Cost and Carbon Footprint.” Green Chemistry. DOI: 10.1039/D0GC03260C
Role: Moderate
42. Nemi Vora, Peter R. Christensen, Jérémy Demarteau, Nawa Raj Baral, Jay D. Keasling, Brett
A. Helms, Corinne D. Scown* (2021) “Leveling the cost and carbon footprint of circularpolymers that are chemically recycled to monomer.” Science Advances. DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.abf0187 Role: Major (Co-PI & Work Lead).
41. Shruti K. Mishra*, Sagar Gautam, Umakant Mishra, Corinne D. Scown (2021). “Performancebased Payments for Soil Carbon Sequestration can Enable a Low-Carbon Bioeconomy.” Environmental Science & Technology. DOI: 10.1021/acs.est.0c06452 Role: Moderate
40. Carolina A. Barcelos, Asun M. Oka, Jipeng Yan, Lalitendu Das, Ezinne Achinivu, Harsha
Magurudenia, Simay Akdemir, Jie Dong, Nawa Raj Baral, Chunsheng Yan, Corinne D.
Scown, Deepti Tanjore, Ning Sun, Blake A. Simmons, John Gladden, Eric Sundstrom*(2021). “High-efficiency conversion of ionic liquid-pretreated woody biomass to ethanol atpilot scale” ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering. DOI: 10.1021/acssuschemeng.0c07920
Role: Moderate
39. Corinne D. Scown*, Nawa Raj Baral, Minliang Yang, Nemi Vora, Tyler Huntington (2021).“Technoeconomic analysis for biofuels and bioproducts.” Current Opinion in Biotechnology. DOI:
10.1016/j.copbio.2021.01.002 Role: Major (Wrote paper, Lead PI)
38. Chelsea V. Preble*, Sharon S. Chen, Toshifumi Hotchi, Michael D. Sohn, Randy L. Maddalena,
Marion L. Russell, Nancy J. Brown, Corinne D. Scown, Thomas W. Kirchstetter (2020).
“Emission rates of greenhouse gases, nitrogen oxides, odorous species, and volatile organic
compounds for the dry anaerobic digestion and composting of organic municipal solid waste.”
Environmental Science & Technology. DOI: 10.1021/acs.est.0c03953 Role: Minor
37. Nawa Raj Baral, Jeff Dahlberg, Daniel Putnam, Jenny C. Mortimer, Corinne D. Scown*(2020). “Supply cost and life-cycle greenhouse gas footprint of dry and ensiled biomasssorghum for biofuel production.” ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering. DOI: 10.1021/acssuschemeng.0c03784 Role: Major (Lead PI)
36. Minliang Yang, Nawa Raj Baral, Aikaterini Anastasopoulou, Hanna M. Breunig, Corinne
D. Scown* (2020). “Cost and life-cycle greenhouse gas implications of integrating biogas
upgrading and carbon capture technologies in cellulosic biorefineries.” Environmental Science& Technology. DOI: 10.1021/acs.est.0c02816 Role: Major (Lead PI)
35. Sagar Gautam*, Umakant Mishra, Corinne D. Scown, Yao Zhang (2020). “Sorghum
biomass production in the continental United States and its potential impacts on soil organic carbon and nitrous oxide emissions.” GCB Bioenergy. DOI: 10.1111/gcbb.12736 Role:
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34. Sarah L. Nordahl, Jay Devkota, Jahon Amirebrahimi, Sarah Smith, Hanna Breunig, Chelsea
Preble, Andrew Satchwell, Ling Jin, Nancy Brown, Thomas Kirchstetter, Corinne D. Scown*(2020). “Life-Cycle Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Human Health Tradeoffs of Organic Waste
Management Strategies.” Environmental Science & Technology. DOI: 10.1021/acs.est.0c00364
Role: Major (Work lead, Co-PI). First Runner-Up, ES&T 2020 Best Policy Paper
33. Minliang Yang, Nawa Raj Baral, Blake A. Simmons, Jenny C. Mortimer, Patrick M. Shih*,
Corinne D. Scown* (2020). “Accumulation of high-value bioproducts in planta can improve the economics of advanced biofuels.” DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2000053117 Proceedings of the
National Academy of Sciences. Role: Major (Lead PI)
32. Tyler Huntington, Xinguang Cui, Umakant Mishra*, Corinne D. Scown* (2020). “Machine
Learning to Predict Bioenergy Sorghum Yields under Future Climate Scenarios.” Biofuels,
Bioproducts and Biorefining. DOI: 10.1002/bbb.2087 Role: Major (Lead PI)
31. Hanna M. Breunig*, Jahon Amirebrahimi, Sarah Smith, Corinne D. Scown (2019).“Role ofDigestate and Biochar in Carbon-Negative Bioenergy.” Environmental Science & Technology.
DOI: 10.1021/acs.est.9b03763. Role: Major (Lead PI)
30. Nawa Raj Baral, Olga Kavvada, Daniel Mendez Perez, Aindrila Mukhopadhyay, Taek Soon
Lee, Blake A. Simmons, Corinne D. Scown* (2019). “Greenhouse Gas Footprint, WaterIntensity, and, Production Cost of Bio-Based Isopentenol as a Renewable Transportation Fuel.”ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering, 7, 15434-15444. DOI: 10.1021/acssuschemeng.9b02928
Role: Major (Lead PI)
29. Nawa Raj Baral, Eric R. Sundstrom, Lalitendu Das, John Gladden, Aymerick Eudes, Jenny
C. Mortimer, Steven W. Singer, Aindrila Mukhopadhyay, Corinne D. Scown* (2019). “Approaches for More Efficient Biological Conversion of Lignocellulosic Feedstocks to Biofuels andBioproducts.” ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering, 7, 9062-9079. DOI: 10.1021/acssuschemeng.9b01229 Role: Major (Lead PI, Led writing)
28. Elias Martinez-Hernandez, Xinguang Cui, Corinne D. Scown, Myriam A. Amezcua Allieri,
Jorge Aburto, Blake Simmons (2019) “Techno-economic and greenhouse gas analyses of lignin
valorization to eugenol and phenolic products in integrated ethanol biorefineries.” Biofuels,
Bioproducts and Biorefining. DOI: 10.1002/bbb.1989 Role: Minor
27. Nawa Raj Baral, Olga Kavvada, Daniel Mendez Perez, Aindrila Mukhopadhyay, Taek Soon
Lee, Blake A. Simmons, Corinne D. Scown* (2019). “Techno-Economic Analysis andLife-Cycle Greenhouse Gas Mitigation Cost of Five Potential Jet Fuel Molecules.” Energy &Environmental Science, 12, 807-824. DOI: 10.1039/C8EE03266A Role: Major (Lead PI)–Took parental leave in early 2019–26. Andrew Satchwell*, Corinne D. Scown, Sarah Josephine Smith, Jahon Amirebrahimi, Ling
Jin, Thomas W. Kirchstetter, Nancy Brown, Chelsea Preble (2018). “Accelerating the Deployment of Anaerobic Digestion to Meet Zero Waste Goals.” Environmental Science & Technology. DOI: 10.1021/acs.est.8b04481 Role: Major (Co-PI, Conceptualized paper)
25. Xinguang Cui, Olga Kavvada, Tyler Huntington, Corinne D. Scown* (2018). “Strategies
for Near-Term Scale-Up of Cellulosic Biofuel Production Using Sorghum and Crop Residues
in the U.S.” Environmental Research Letters. DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/aae6e3 Role: Major(Lead PI)
24. Lipeng Wu*, Amit Gokhale*, Konstantinos Goulas, John Myers, F. Dean Toste, Corinne
D. Scown* (2018). “Hybrid Biological-Chemical Approach Offers Flexibility and Reduces
the Carbon Footprint of Bio-Based Plastics, Rubbers, and Fuels” ACS Sustainable Chemistry& Engineering. DOI: 10.1021/acssuschemeng.8b03158 Role: Major (Wrote paper, ran
analysis)

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23. Hanna Marie Breunig*, Tyler Huntington, Ling Jin, Alastair Robinson, Corinne D. Scown(2018). “Temporal and Geographic Drivers of Biomass Residues in California” Resources,
Conservation & Recycling. DOI: 10.1016/j.resconrec.2018.08.022 Role: Major (Lead PI)
22. Michael Taptich, Corinne D. Scown*, Arpad Horvath (2018). “Drop-in biofuels offer strategies for meeting California’s 2030 climate mandate.” Environmental Research Letters, 13(9),094018. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/aadcb2 Role: Major (Wrote proposal,
led project)
21. Hanna Breunig*, Tyler Huntington, Alastair Robinson, Ling Jin, Corinne D. Scown (2018).
“Dynamic Geospatial Modeling of the Building Stock to Project Urban Energy Demand.”Environmental Science & Technology, 52(14), 7604–7613. DOI: 10.1021/acs.est.8b00435 Role:
Major (Lead PI)
20. Binod Neupane, N.V.S.N. Murthy Konda, Seema Singh, Blake A. Simmons, Corinne D.
Scown* (2017). “Life-Cycle Greenhouse Gas- and Water-Intensity of Cellulosic Biofuel Production Using Cholinium Lysinate Ionic Liquid Pretreatment.” ACS Sustainable Chemistry &Engineering, 5(11), 10176–10185. DOI: 10.1021/acssuschemeng.7b02116 Role: Major (LeadPI)
19. Hanna Breunig*, Ling Jin, Alastair Robinson, Corinne D. Scown (2017). “Bioenergy
Potential from Food Waste in California.” Environmental Science & Technology, 51(3), 11201128. DOI: 10.1021/acs.est.6b04591 Role: Major (Lead PI)–Took parental leave in late 2016–18. Jian Sun, N.V.S.N. Murthy Konda, Jian Shi, Ramakrishnan Parthasarathi, Tanmoy Dutta,
Feng Xu, Corinne D Scown, Blake Simmons, Seema Singh* (2016). “CO2 Enabled Process Consolidation for the Production of Cellulosic Ethanol in Bionic Liquids.” Energy &Environmental Science, 9(9), 2822-2834. DOI: 10.1039/C6EE00913A Role: Moderate
17. Sankaranarayanapillai Shylesh, Amit A. Gokhale, Corinne D. Scown, Daeyoup Kim, Alexis
T. Bell* (2016). “From Sugars to Wheels: Conversion of Ethanol to 1,3-Butadiene Over
Metal Promoted Magnesium-Silicate Catalysts.” ChemSusChem, 9(12), 1462-1472. DOI:
10.1002/cssc.201600195 Role: Major (Ran analysis, heavy edits)
16. Michael J. Liszka, Aram Kang, NVSN Murthy Konda, Kim Tran, Corinne D. Scown, John
M. Gladden, Seema Singh, Jay D. Keasling, Taek Soon Lee, Blake A. Simmons, Kenneth
L. Sale* (2016).“Switchable Ionic Liquids Based on Di-Carboxylic Acids for One-Pot Pretreatment, Saccharification and Fermentation of Biomass to an Advanced Biofuel.” Green
Chemistry, 18, 4012-4021. DOI: 10.1039/C6GC00657D Role: Minor
15. Roger Sathre*, Hanna Breunig, Jeffery Greenblatt, Peter Larsen, Eric Masanet, Thomas McKone, Nigel Quinn, Corinne D. Scown (2016). “Spatially-explicit water balance implicationsof carbon capture and sequestration.” Environmental Modelling & Software, 75, 153-162. DOI:
10.1016/j.envsoft.2015.10.011 Role: Minor
14. Feng Xu, Jian Sun, Suryanarayana Konda Naga Venkata, Jian Shi, Tanmoy Dutta, Corinne
D. Scown, Blake A. Simmons, Seema Singh* (2016).“Transforming biomass conversion withionic liquids: process intensification and the development of a high-gravity, one-pot process forthe production of cellulosic ethanol.” Energy & Environmental Science, 9, 1042-1049. DOI:
10.1039/C5EE02940F Role: Moderate
13. Marcelle C. McManus*, Caroline M. Taylor*, Alison Mohr, Carly Whittaker, Corinne D.
Scown, Aiduan Li Borrion, Neryssa Glithero, Yao Yin (2015). “Challenge Clusters Facing
LCA in Sustainability Decision-making - What We Can Learn From Biofuels.” International
Journal of Life Cycle Assessment, 20(10), 1399-1414. DOI: 10.1007/s11367-015-0930-7 Role:
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12. Sanil Sreekumar, Madhesan Balakrishnan, Konstantinos Goulas, Gorkem Gunbas, Amit A.
Gokhale, Lin Louie, Corinne D. Scown*, Alexis T. Bell* and F. Dean Toste* (2015). “Upgrading Lignocellulosic Products to Drop-In Biofuels via Dehydrogenative Cross-Coupling andHydrodeoxygenation Sequence.” ChemSusChem, 8(16), 2609-2614. DOI: 10.1002/cssc.201500754
Role: Major (Ran analysis, Heavy edits)
11. Madhesan Balakrishnan, Eric R. Sacia, Sanil Sreekumar, Gorkem Gunbas, Amit A. Gokhale,
Corinne D. Scown*, F. Dean Toste*, Alexis T. Bell* (2015). “Novel Pathways for Fuels
and Lubricants from Biomass Optimized Using Life Cycle Assessment.” Proceedings of the
National Academy of Sciences, 112(25), 7645-7649. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1508274112 Role:
Major (Ran analysis, Writing and heavy edits)
10. Roger Sathre*, Corinne D. Scown, Olga Kavvada, Thomas P. Hendrickson (2015). “Energy
and Climate Effects of Second-life Use of Electric Vehicle Batteries in California Through2050.” Journal of Power Sources, 288, 82-91. DOI: 10.1016/j.jpowsour.2015.04.097 Role:
Major (Lead PI)
9. Thomas P. Hendrickson*, Olga Kavvada, Nihar Shah, Roger Sathre, Corinne D. Scown*(2015). “Life-cycle Implications and Supply Chain Logistics of Electric Vehicle Battery Recycling in California.” Environmental Research Letters, 10(1), 014011. DOI: 10.1088/17489326/10/1/014011 Role: Major (Lead PI)
8. Roger Sathre*, Corinne D. Scown, William Morrow, John Stevens, Ian Sharp, Joel Ager,
Karl Walczak, Frances Houle, Jeffrey B. Greenblatt* (2015). “Life-cycle Net Energy Analysis
of Large-scale Hydrogen Production via Photo-electrochemical Water-splitting.” Energy &Environmental Science, 7(10), 3264-3278. DOI: 10.1039/C4EE01019A Role: Minor
7. Corinne D. Scown*, Amit Gokhale, Paul Willems, Arpad Horvath, Thomas E. McKone(2014). “The Role of Lignin in Driving Down Life-cycle Carbon Emissions, Water Use, andCost for U.S. Cellulosic Biofuels.” Environmental Science & Technology, 48(15), 8446-8455.
DOI: 10.1021/es5012753 Role: Major (Lead PI)
6. Corinne D. Scown*, Michael Taptich, William W. Nazaroff, Arpad Horvath, Thomas E.
McKone (2013). “Achieving Deep Cuts in the Carbon Intensity of US Automobile Transportation by 2050: Complementary Roles for Electricity and Biofuels.” Environmental Science& Technology, 47(16), 9044-9052. DOI: 10.1021/es4015635 Role: Major (Postdoc)
5. Corinne D. Scown*, William W. Nazaroff, Umakant Mishra, Bret Strogen, Agnes B. Lobscheid, Eric Masanet, Nicholas J. Santero, Arpad Horvath, Thomas E. McKone (2012).
“Lifecycle Greenhouse Gas Implications of US National Scenarios for Cellulosic Ethanol Production.” Environmental Research Letters, 7(1) 014011. DOI:10.1088/1748-9326/7/1/014011
Role: Major (Postdoc)
4. Corinne D. Scown*, Arpad Horvath, Thomas E. McKone (2011). “Water Footprint of
U.S. Transportation Fuels.” Environmental Science & Technology, 45(7), 2541-2553. Also
published in Environmental Science & Technology virtual issue entitled “Water-Energy Nexus”
1(1). DOI: 10.1021/es102633h Role: Major (PhD Research)
3. Thomas E. McKone*, William W. Nazaroff, Peter Berck, Maximilian Auffhammer, Tim Lipman, Margaret S. Torn, Eric Masanet, Agnes Lobscheid, Nicholas Santero, Umakant Mishra,
Audrey Barrett, Matthew Bomberg, Kevin Fingerman, Corinne Scown, Bret Strogen, Arpad
Horvath (2011). “Grand Challenges for Life-Cycle Assessment of Biofuels.” Environmental
Science & Technology, 45(5), 1751-1756. DOI: 10.1021/es103579c Role: Minor. Second
Runner-Up, ES&T 2011 Best Feature Paper
2. Ping Chen, Corinne Scown*, H. Scott Matthews, James H. Garrett, Jr., Chris Hendrickson(2009). “Managing Critical Infrastructure Interdependence through Economic Input-Output
Methods.” ASCE Journal of Infrastructure Systems, 15(3), 200-210.
DOI: 10.1061/(ASCE)1076-0342(2009)15:3(200) Role: Major (Wrote paper, Led revisions)Updated August 2022

1. Chung Yan Shih, Corinne D. Scown, Lucio Soibelman, H. Scott Matthews*, James H.
Garrett, Jr., Keith Dodrill, Sandra McSurdy (2009). “Data Management for Geospatial
Vulnerability Assessment of Interdependencies in US Power Generation.” ASCE Journal of
Infrastructure Systems, 15(3), 179-189. DOI: 10.1061/(ASCE)1076-0342(2009)15:3(179) Role:
Major (Writing, Figures, Led revisions)*Corresponding author(s)Technical
Reports andBook Chapters

Corinne D. Scown, Alastair Robinson, Hanna Breunig, Ling Jin, Tyler Huntington, Sarah Smith,
Jay Devkota, Sarah Nordahl, Nawa Baral. Paths to Sustainable Distributed Generation through 2050:
Matching Local Waste Biomass Resources with Grid, Industrial, and Community Needs. California
Energy Commission, Sacramento, CA, CEC-500-2020-061.
Arpad Horvath, Corinne D. Scown, Michael Taptich, Kate Piscopo. The Future of Drop-In Fuels.
California Air Resources Board, Sacramento, CA, Contract No. 13-308.
N.V.S.N. Murthy Konda, Dominique Loque, and Corinne D. Scown. Towards the Design of
Economically Sustainable Lignocellulosic Biorefineries. Book chapter in Biomass Pretreatment andConversion Processes (Eds.) Rajeev Kumar, Seema Singh, and Venkatesh Balan. Nova Publishing
Science Publishers. Accepted, May 2016.
Thomas P. Hendrickson, Roger Sathre, Olga Kavvada, Corinne Scown (2016). Plug-In Electric
Vehicle Battery Recycling Scale-Up Strategies for California (2015-2050). California Energy Commission, Sacramento, CA, PIR-12-015.
Roger Sathre, Hanna Breunig, Peter Larsen, Eric Masanet, Thomas McKone, Nigel Quinn, Corinne
Scown (2012). Spatially-Explicit Impacts of Carbon Capture and Sequestration on Water Supply
and Demand. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA.
Iain S. Walker, Sara Al-Beaini, Samuel Borgeson, Brian Coffey, David Gregory, Kyle Konis, Corinne
Scown, Jelena Simjanovic, John Stanley, Bret Strogen (2009). Feasibility of Achieving Net-ZeroEnergy Net-Zero-Cost Homes. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, LBNL 2067E.

Intellectual
Property &Startups

Grants

Co-Founder: Cyklos Materials
Software Disclosure: Smelly-Odor Webtool (Smelly) v1
Software Disclosure: Agile Cradle-to-Grave (AgileC2G)
Life-Cycle Assessment Model and Webtool
Software Disclosure: Bio-Siting Tool
Geospatial Biorefinery Siting and Heat Utilization Webtool

2022-Current
Approved 2019

Carbon Negative Materials Assessment (CaNMA)
Amount: $1.5M, Agency: ARPA-E
Role: Co-PI

2022-present

Bio-C2G Model for Rapid, Agile Assessment of Biofuel andCo-product Routes
Amount: $900K, Agency: DOE EERE BETO
Role: Lead PI
EFRI E3P: Program Plastic Lifecycle by Rationally Designed
Enzyme-Containing Plastics
Amount: $2M, Agency: NSF
Role: Co-PI

Approved 2018
Approved 20182021-present

2021-present

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LBNL LDRD: Advanced Manufacturing - Circular Polymers
Amount: $200K/year for 3 years, Agency: LBNL LDRD
Role: Lead PI
Systems-Level Strategy to Improve the Re-X Potential of Conventionaland Novel Polymers
Amount: $250K, Agency: DOE EERE AMO & SPIA
Role: Lead PI
Multi-Input, Multi-Output Biorefineries to Reduce Greenhouse Gas
and Air Pollutant Emissions
Amount: $1M, Agency: DOE EERE BETO
Role: Lead PI
Technoeconomic Analysis and Life-Cycle Assessment of Stationary
Grid-Connected Battery Storage Systems
Amount: $350K, Agency: Shell International Exploration and Production Inc.
Role: Lead PI
LBNL Feedstock to Function Tool: Improving biobased productand fuel development through adaptive technoeconomic andperformance modelingAmount: $900K, Agency: DOE EERE BETO
Role: Co-PI
LBNL LDRD: Emerging TechnoEconomic Analysis
Amount: $450K, Agency: LBNL LDRD
Role: Lead PI
Bio-C2G Model for Rapid, Agile Assessment of Biofuel andCo-product Routes
Amount: $900K, Agency: DOE EERE BETO
Role: Lead PI
Design and Development of Bio-Advantaged Vitrimers as
Closed-Loop Bioproducts
Amount: $2M, Agency: DOE EERE BETO
Role: Co-PI
Joint BioEnergy Institute (JBEI)
Amount: $125M, Agency: DOE Office of Science
Role: Co-PI
Technoeconomic Analysis of Microbial Sulfate Reduction
Inhibition Using Perchlorate Treatment
Amount: $230K, Agency: AMPAC
Role: Lead PI
Paths to Sustainable Distributed Generation through 2050:
Matching Local Waste Biomass Resources with Grid, Industrial,
and Community Needs
Amount: $1.5M, Agency: California Energy Commission
Role: Lead PI

2020-present

2020-present

2020-present

2019-present

2018-present

2018-20202018-2021

2018-present

2017-present

2017-20192015-2019

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Enabling Anaerobic Digestion Deployment for Municipal
Solid Waste-to-Energy
Amount: $4.3M, Agency: California Energy Commission
Role: Co-PI
Synthesis of bio-inspired adaptive membranes for direct captureof CO2 from biogas
Amount: $221K, Agency: LBNL Laboratory Directed Research and Development
Role: Co-PI

Research
Experience

2015-20192014-2015

Large-scale Recycling of California’s PEV Battery Packs
Amount: $250K, Agency: California Energy Commission
Role: Lead PI

2013-2015

Life-cycle Assessment
Amount: $150K, Agency: LBNL Program Development Funds
Role: Lead PI

2012-2015

Building Life-cycle Assessment Capacity for Advanced Biofuels
Amount: $565K, Agency: Energy Biosciences InstituteRole: Co-PI

2013-2016

The Future of Drop-in Fuels
Amount: $400K, Agency: California Air Resources Board
Role: Technical Lead2013-2017

Energy Biosciences Institute, Berkeley, California USA
Head of Sustainability
2017-present
Member of EBI leadership team, aiding with the development of the revised EBI mission, andthrough life-cycle environmental and societal impact analysis, providing guidance for the instituteroadmap and policy stance as it focuses on its expanded research and educational goals across theenergy sector.
Joint BioEnergy Institute, Emeryville, California USA
VP, Life-cycle, Economics, & Agronomy Division
2017-present
Founder and leader of JBEI’s new division: LEAD, including technoeconomic analysis, life-cycle
assessment, and field trials of wild type and engineered feedstocks. 40% time appointment, remaining
60% time spent on other LBNL projects.
Director of Technoeconomic Analysis
2015-2017
Leader of JBEI’s technoeconomic modeling and life-cycle assessment research in collaboration withexperimental and computational researchers within JBEI and the Advanced Biofuel Process Demonstration Unit (ABPDU). 40% time appointment, remaining 60% time spent on other LBNL projects.
Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, Berkeley, California USA
Deputy Division Director for Research
2018-present
Serving in the leadership for the Energy Analysis & Environmental Impacts Division at LBNL,
which is made up of more than 100 permanent staff, and many additional junior staff. Responsibilties
include ensuring high-quality scientific output, funding stability, and career development for division
staff.
Deputy Group Leader & Staff Scientist, Sustainable Energy Systems Group
2015-present
Serving in the leadership for the Sustainable Energy Systems group at LBNL, supervising fellow

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scientists as well as postdocs and grad students. Coordinating with group and division leadershipto ensure high-quality scientific output, funding stability, and career development for members.
Promoted to Staff Scientist in 2017.
Research Scientist
2014-2017
Leading a variety of projects, including state-funded research on drop-in iofuels and electric vehicle
battery recycling as well as biofuels research funded by the Energy Biosciences Institute.
Principal Scientific Engineering Associate
2012-2013
Team: Energy & Environmental Analysis Team, Carbon Cycle 2.0
Research on scenario and model development for energy efficient buildings, biomass for energy
applications, photovoltaics, and carbon capture and sequestration.
University of California, Berkeley, USA
Assistant Researcher
2017-present
Entry-level position in the Professional Research Series. Serving as a member of leadership team for
EBI, housed at the university, and PI on research projects brought in through UC Berkeley.
Research Engineer
2012-2017
Project Title: Life-Cycle Environmental and Economic Decision-Making for Alternative Biofuels
Advisor: Professor Arpad Horvath Primary objective is to develop an understanding of the broad
environmental and economic impacts of producing biofuels with respect to other transportation fuelalternatives such as petroleum-based fuels and electricity. Deliverables include a carbon assessment
tool and a series of national biofuel production scenarios.
Postdoctoral Scholar
2010-2011
Project Title: Life-Cycle Energy Assessment of Water and Waste Water Systems in California
Advisor: Professor Arpad Horvath Primary objective is to develop a tool for assessing the greenhousegas and water resource impacts of water supply and wastewater treatment in California.
Graduate Student Researcher
2007-2010
Project Title: Life-Cycle Water Impacts of U.S. Transportation Fuels
Advisor: Professor Arpad HorvathPrimary objective is to conduct dissertation-oriented research in the following areas: water requirements for transportation fuel production and delivery, energy-water connection, and water
consumption impact assessment.
Graduate Student Researcher
2008-2009
Project Title: World Resources Institute Transportation Energy Tool
Advisor: Lee Schipper, Ph.D.
Tasks include developing an excel-based policy analysis tool for determining the greenhouse gas
impacts of various transportation-related policies and writing a series of white papers to be publishedby the World Resources Institute in Washington, DC.
Advisory Board Member
2008
Project Title: Energy Free Home Challenge
Advisor: Iain Walker, Ph.D.
Tasks include estimating the cost for model net zero energy home to determine whether the costand energy requirements for the competition entrants would be feasible and providing general input
on proposed rules, contest logistics, and contest goals.
Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania USA
Graduate Research Assistant2007

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Project Title: Knowledge Management and Visualization in Support of Vulnerability Assessment ofElectricity Production
Advisor: Professors H. Scott Matthews and Lucio Soibelman
Tasks include developing a prototype that integrates spatial and non-spatial data for vulnerability
assessment of electricity supply based on coal mine production and rail transportation.
Undergraduate Research Assistant
2004-2006
Project Title: Economic Input-Output Life-Cycle Assessment
Advisor: Professor H. Scott Matthews
Tasks include retrieval and aggregation of Occupational Safety and Health Administration data for
integration into the Economic Input-Output Life-Cycle Assessment (EIO-LCA) tool and development of a tutorial for new EIO-LCA users.
Northeast Midwest Institute, Washington, DC USA
Undergraduate Research Fellow
2006
Project Title: Electrical Grid Modernization
Advisor: Diane DeVaul, Ph.D. and Richard Munson
Tasks include collection of information on electrical grid modernization, distributed generation, andbroadband over power lines for preparation of a white paper.
Conference
PapersJohn J. Feldhausen, David C. Bell, Shane T. Kosir, Joshua S. Heyne, Corinne Scown, Vi Rapp,and Ana Comesana. ”The Co-Optimization of Sustainable Aviation Fuel: Cost, Emissions, andPerformance.” In AIAA Scitech 2021 Forum, p. 2029. 2021.
Fan Tong, Derek Wolfson, Maximilian Auffhammer, Corinne D. Scown, “Climate and Health Impacts of Long-Haul Truck Electrification in the United States.” Transportation Research Board,
Washington, DC, 2020.
Michael Taptich, Corinne D. Scown, Kate Piscopo, Arpad Horvath, “Exceeding California’s 2030
greenhouse gas reduction targets for on-road transport with drop-in biofuels.” Transportation Research Board, Washington, DC, 2017.
Roger C. Sathre, Hanna Breunig, Jeffery Greenblatt, Peter Larsen, Thomas E. McKone, Nigel W.
Quinn, Corinne Scown (2012). “Spatially-Explicit Water Balance Implications of Carbon Captureand Sequestration.” Proceedings of the 11th Annual Conference on Carbon Capture, Utilization, andSequestration, Pittsburgh, PA. April 30-May 3, 2012.
Aurora L. Sharrard, Ashley Nikithser, Corinne Scown, H. Scott Matthews, Melissa Bilec (2007).
“The Challenge of Correlating Air Monitor Data with Construction Site Activity: A Pittsburgh
Case Study.” Proceedings of the Construction Research Congress, Grand Bahama Island, Bahamas.
American Society of Civil Engineers, Construction Institute. May 6-8, 2007.
Chung Yan Shih, Corinne D. Scown, Lucio Soibelman, H. Scott Matthews, James H. Garrett, Jr.,
Keith Dodrill, Sandra McSurdy (2007). “Decision Support Framework for Electricity Production
Vulnerability Assessment.” Proceedings of the 2007 ASCE Computing in Civil Engineering Conference, Pittsburgh, PA, July 24-27, 2007.

PhD Advising &Committees

Wilson McNeil, Co-Advised with Rob Harley (Ongoing)
Jason Porzio, Primary Research Advisor (Co-Advised by Scott Moura) (Ongoing)
Sarah Nordahl, Primary Research Advisor (Co-Advised by Rob Harley) (Ongoing)Updated August 2022

Sarah Smith, Committee Member (Graduated Fall 2020)
Conference
Organizing

Steering Committee, AIChE 2019 Bioenergy Sustainability Conference, Nashville, TN, October 2019.
Steering Committee and Panel Organizer, California Bioresources Economy Summit, Berkeley, CA,
January 2019.
Track Chair and Leadership Committee, International Conference on Sustainable Design, Engineering and Construction, Tempe, AZ, May 2016.
Organizing Committee, International Symposium on Sustainable Systems & Technologies, Oakland,
CA, May 2014.
Organizing Committee, International Society for Industrial Ecology 2011 Conference, Berkeley, CA,
June 2011.

Selected Invited “Designing the bioeconomy for deep decarbonization”, Keynote Talk, Annual Green Chemistry &Talks &Engineering Conference, June 3, 2022. [virtual]
Conference
Presentations“Influence of TRY and lignin-derived aromatic utilization on the cost and carbon footprint of biofuels”, Invited Talk, 44th Symposium on Biomaterials, Fuels and Chemicals, May 2, 2022. [virtual]“U.S. Department of Energy Wood Heater Workshop #3: Adoption of new wood heater technology
and integration with other renewables”, Invited Panelist, April 26, 2022. [virtual]“Overcoming the Engineering and Environmental Challenges of Achieving a More Circular Economy”, Invited Talk, CUWP Seminar Series, University of Wisconsin-Madison, April 14, 2022. [virtual visit]“Overcoming the Engineering and Environmental Challenges of Achieving a More Circular Economy”, Invited Talk, Ezra’s Systems Roundtable Seminar, Cornell University, February 4, 2022.
[virtual due to COVID]“Weighing Life-Cycle Climate and Health Tradeoffs in the Push Toward Zero Waste”, Invited Talk,
EEE Research Seminar, Purdue University, January 18, 2022.
“Converting Wet, Stinky Waste into Usable Energy”, Guest Lecture for UC Berkeley E93, October
29, 2021.
“Circular Plastics and the Environment”, Invited Talk, IEEE Silicon Valley/Bay Area Sustainability(SVS) Webinar, October 13, 2021. [virtual due to COVID]“Health and Climate Impacts from Long-Haul Truck Electrification”, Invited Talk, Battery ModelingWebinar Series, Widely attended seminar series hosted by Carnegie Mellon University, August 17,
2021. [virtual due to COVID]“Production Cost and Carbon Footprint of Biomass-Derived Dimethylcyclooctane as a High Performance Jet Fuel Blendstock”, Invited Conference Presentation, Society for Industrial Microbiology
and Biotechnology Annual Meeting, Austin, TX, August 10, 2021. [Conference was in-person, mytalk was virtual due to LBNL-COVID travel restrictions]“Designing the Bioeconomy for Deep Decarbonization: Opportunities and impacts for the agricultural sector”, Invited Conference Presentation, Society for Industrial Microbiology and Biotechnol-Updated August 2022

ogy Annual Meeting, Austin, TX, August 9, 2021. [Conference was in-person, my talk was virtualdue to LBNL-COVID travel restrictions]“Opportunities and impacts for the agricultural sector”, Invited Plenary Talk, Designing the Bioeconomy for Deep Decarbonization, DOE Multi-Lab Workshop, April 30, 2021. [virtual due to
COVID]“Cost and greenhouse gas implications of advanced bio-jet fuel production”, Invited Conference
Presentation, SIMB Symposium on Biomaterials, Fuels and Chemicals, April 27, 2021. [virtual due
to COVID]“Weighing life-cycle climate and public health tradeoffs in organic waste management”, Invited
Keynote Talk, AIChE Food-Energy-Water Conference, Berkeley, CA, February 2021. [virtual due
to COVID]“Life-Cycle Impacts of Anaerobic Digestion Deployment for Municipal Solid Waste-to-Energy”, Invited Talk, U.S. EPA 2020 California Bioresources Alliance Symposium, Sacramento, CA, November
2020. [virtual due to COVID]“Life-Cycle Impacts of Anaerobic Digestion Deployment for Municipal Solid Waste-to-Energy”, Invited Seminar, Stanford University Energy Resources Engineering Graduate Seminar, Stanford, CA,
September 2020. [virtual due to COVID]“Machine Learning for Predicting Feedstock Yields, Biofuel Production Costs, and Emissions”,
Inter-BRC Machine Learning Workshop, Washington, DC, February 2020.
“Lignin Valorization for Sustainable, Lower-Cost Biofuels and Bioproducts” Invited speaker on behalf of JBEI. DOE Genomic Sciences Program (GSP) PI Meeting Plenary Talk, Washington, DC,
February 2020.
“Sustainability at the Joint BioEnergy Institute”, Invited Panel Speaker, AIChE Bioenergy Sustainability Conference, Nashville, TN, October 2019.
“Biomass Availability for Biogas Production”, Invited Plenary Speaker, U.S. Biogas, San Diego,
CA, October 2019.
“Overview of available bioresources information”, Invited Panel Leader and Speaker, California
Bioresources Economy Summit, Berkeley, CA, January 2019.
“Valuing organic waste-to-energy systems”, Conference Presentation, Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry-North America Annual Meeting, Sacramento, CA, November 2018.
“Technoeconomic analysis and life-cycle assessment for emerging technologies”, Invited Talk, Shell,
Houston, TX, November 2018.
“Technoeconomic analysis, life-cycle assessment, and scale-up for biomaterials”, Invited Talk, Synthetic Biology for Materials Workshop, Dept. of Defense, Arlington, VA, October 2018.
“Technoeconomic analysis and life-cycle assessment for emerging technologies”, Invited Talk, Energy
Storage: Sustainability & Supply Chain Innovation Workshop, Berkeley, CA, October 2018.
“Bio-Siting Tool Demo”, Invited Demo, California Bioresources Economy Summit Steering Committee Meeting, Sacramento, CA, May 11, 2018.

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“Life-cycle Assessment Overview”, Invited Talk (Workshop), 40th Symposium on Biotechnology for
Fuels & Chemicals LCA/TEA Workshop, SIMB, Clearwater Florida, April 28, 2018.
“Life-Cycle Greenhouse Gas Assessment”, Guest Lecture, Chemical Engineering 90, UC Berkeley,
Berkeley, CA, March 2018.
“Role of Lignin in Economically & Environmentally Sustainable Biorefineries”, Invited Talk, Georgia
Tech TAPPI Seminar Series, Atlanta, GA, February 2018.
“How Valuable is a Feedstock-Agnostic Biorefinery?”, Society of Environmental Toxicology andChemistry (SETAC) North America, Minneapolis, MN, November 2017.
“Bioenergy Potential from Food Waste in California”, International Society for Industrial Ecology/International Symposium on Sustainable Systems and Technology Joint Conference, Chicago,
IL, June 2017.
“Life-Cycle Greenhouse Gas Assessment”, Guest Lecture, Chemical Engineering 90, UC Berkeley,
Berkeley, CA, March 2017.
“Using life-cycle assessment to guide the development of bio-based fuels, lubricants, rubber, and plastic”, Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry-Europe Annual Meeting, Nantes, France,
May 2016.
“Overview of Research at the Joint BioEnergy Institute”, Energy Modeling Forum 33, Global BioEnergy Policy Scenario Working Group Meeting, Stanford, CA, April 2016.
“Life-Cycle Greenhouse Gas Assessment”, Guest Lecture, Chemical Engineering 90, UC Berkeley,
Berkeley, CA, March 2016.
“Life-cycle Engineering”, Guest Lecture, Energy from Biomass, UC Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, November 2015.
“A Whirlwind Tour of Emerging Technology Assessment at LBNL”, LCA XV, Vancouver, Canada,
October 2015.
“Closing the Gap Between Basic Research, Technoeconomic Analysis, and Life-cycle Assessment for
Bio-based Fuels and Products”, Joint BioEnergy Institute Seminar, Emeryville, CA, June 2015
“Technoeconomic Analysis at JBEI”, Joint BioEnergy Institute, Emeryville, CA, April 2015.
“Life-cycle Greenhouse Gas Assessment”, Guest Lecture, Chemical Engineering 90, UC Berkeley,
Berkeley, CA, March 2015.
“Water and Climate Impacts of Transportation Systems”, Keynote at University of Illinois, UrbanaChampaign EWES SRIS Summit, Urbana, IL, April 2014.
“US Water-Energy Nexus: Data gaps, uncertainties, and future projections”, The National Academies
Roundtable on Science and Technology for Sustainability, Washington, DC, June 2013.
“The Role of Biomass in Low-Carbon Automotive Transport”, Society of Environmental Toxicology
and Chemistry North America, Long Beach, CA, November 2012.
“Life-cycle Assessment at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory”, Life-cycle Assessment XII,
Tacoma, WA, September 2012.

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“Uncertainty and Scenario Analysis in LCA of Emerging Technologies”, Life-cycle Assessment XII,
Tacoma, WA, September 2012.
“Life-cycle Assessment of Biofuels for Transportation: Understanding the Effects of Scale”, Societyof Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry Europe, Berlin, Germany, May 2012.
“Life-Cycle Water and Greenhouse Gas Implications of Alternative Fuel Production”, Lawrence
Berkeley National Lab, Berkeley, CA, January 2012.
“Life-Cycle Water and Greenhouse Gas Implications of Alternative Fuel Production”, Arizona State
University, Tempe, AZ, January 2012.
“Sustainable Systems: The Interface Between Infrastructure and the Environment”, University of
Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, December 2011.
“Life-Cycle Water Impacts of Transportation Fuels”, International Society for Industrial Ecology
2011 Conference, Berkeley, CA, June 2011.
“Water Footprint of U.S. Transportation Fuels”, Webinar for the Engineers for a Sustainable World
National Chapter, June 2011.
“Biofuels”, Guest lecture given four separate times for UC Extension Courses: “Energy for Sustainability”, “Transportation Sustainability”, 2009 & 2010.
Peer Review &Editorial
Activities

Editorial Advisory Board, ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering (IF = 8.2)
Editorial Board Member, Environmental Research: Infrastructure and Sustainability (Launched
2020)
Associate Editor, Agronomy Journal (IF = 2.2)
Reviewer for National Academies report: “Gaseous Carbon Waste Streams Utilization: Status andResearch Needs”
Reviewer for Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council, UK Research and Innovation

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(analogous to NSF in U.S.)
Gordon Research Conference Reviewer
Reviewer for DOE-funded Center for Computationally Assisted Science and Technology (CCAST)EPA STAR Fellowship Review Panel Member
Manuscript Reviewer for Nature Biotechnology (IF = 55)
Manuscript Reviewer for Nature Energy (IF = 46)
Manuscript Reviewer for Energy & Environmental Science (IF = 30)
Manuscript Reviewer for Advanced Energy Materials (IF = 25)
Manuscript Reviewer for Nature Climate Change (IF = 22)
Manuscript Reviewer for Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (IF = 9.5)
Manuscript Reviewer for Green Chemistry (IF = 10)
Manuscript Reviewer for Current Opinion in Biotechnology (IF = 9.7)
Manuscript Reviewer for Environmental Science & Technology (IF = 9)
Manuscript Reviewer for Resources, Conservation & Recycling (IF = 8)
Manuscript Reviewer for Environmental Research Letters (IF = 6.1)
Manuscript Reviewer for GCB Bioenergy (IF = 5.3)
Manuscript Reviewer for International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment (IF = 4.8)
Manuscript Reviewer for BioEnergy Research (IF = 2.5)
Manuscript Reviewer for Biofuels, Bioproducts, and Biorefining (IF = 4.5)
Manuscript Reviewer for Energy Policy (IF = 4)
Manuscript Reviewer for Water Resources Research (IF = 4.4)
Manuscript Reviewer for 2007 ASCE Conference on Computing in Civil Engineering
Honors andAwardsACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering Lectureship, 2022
Environmental Science & Technology Best Paper Award for 2020 (Nordahl et al., First runner up,
Best Policy Article in 2020), 2021
DOE Secretary’s Achievement Award (awarded as part of 8-person Pretreatment and Process Development Team), 2018
LBNL SPOT Award for Identifying Opportunities to Improve Maternity Leave Coverage, 2017
LBNL Director’s Award for Exceptional Achievement: Early Scientific Career, 2015
Invited to join the Balaton Group as a Donella Meadows Fellow, 2015
Carnegie Mellon University Civil & Environmental Engineering Dept. Recent Alumni Achievement
Award, 2014
Environmental Science & Technology Best Paper Award for 2011 (McKone et al., Second Runner-up,Updated August 2022

Best Feature Article), 2012
National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow, 2007
Carnegie Mellon University Honors and College of Engineering Honors, 2006
UC Berkeley Bears Breaking Boundaries: Energy and Environmental Innovation, 3rd Place, 2008
Carnegie Mellon Stephen Omer Lee Outstanding Engineering & Public Policy Project Award, 2007
Carnegie Mellon Tom Johnson Fellowship, 2006
Carnegie Mellon Advani Memorial Scholarship, 2006
Carnegie Mellon Andrew Carnegie Society Scholarship, 2006
Carnegie Mellon, Civil Engineering H.A. Thomas, Sr. Distinguished Service Award, 2007
Professional
Registration,
Organizations
and Committees

Member (UC Berkeley representative) BioMADE 4S Committee
Member, 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 (2021-2022)
Member, Center for Bioenergy Innovation (CBI) Science Advisory Board
LBNL Women Scientists & Engineers Council
Member, Society of Environmental Toxicology and ChemistryEngineer-in-Training, State of Pennsylvania
Former President, Associated General Contractors of America, UC Berkeley Chapter
Former President, American Society of Civil Engineers, Carnegie Mellon Chapter
Former Vice President, Chi Epsilon Society, Carnegie Mellon Chapter
Member, Society of Women Engineers, Carnegie Mellon Chapter
Former Co-President, UC Berkeley Civil & Environmental Engineering Grad Student Society
Former Executive Board Member, UC Berkeley Graduate Assembly (Graduate Student Government)
Former Grad Student Representative, UC Berkeley Academic Senate (Supreme Governing Body at
Berkeley) Graduate Council
Former Graduate Student Representative, UC Berkeley Chancellor’s Advisory Committee on Sustainability
Former President, Carnegie Mellon Engineering and Public Policy Student Advisor Committee
Former Chair, Carnegie Mellon Civil & Environmental Engineering Student Advisory Committee
Member, Andrew Carnegie Society Scholars

Teaching
Experience

UC Berkeley, USA
Lecturer
Fall 2021
Course Title: CE 11 Engineered Systems & Sustainability
Required undergraduate course for civil & environmental engineering majors. Covers fundamentals
behind engineered systems and their impact on the environment.
UC Berkeley Extension, USA
Lecturer
2011
Course Title: Energy Use and Climate Change
Course comprised of five three-hour meetings, including weekly homework and a large project.
Lecturer

2011

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Course Title: Transportation Sustainability: Life Cycle Assessment
Course comprised of one six-hour meeting.
Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania USA
Head Teaching Assistant
2004-2007
Course Title: Introduction to Civil and Environmental Engineering
The job of a head teaching assistant includes teaching a discussion section, managing the graders,holding office hours, and leading one of three major course projects.
Course Advisor
2005-2006
Course Title: Introductory/Intermediate Programming
This course served as the introductory Java programming course in the School of Computer Science.
Course advisors are required to hold office hours, grade assignments, and attend all lectures.
Outreach

Sustainability-Related Outreach
Ethics in Research2022
Topic(s): Ethics in environmental research at LBNL
Prepared slides and answered questions in a panel discussion for high school interns studying ethics
in research at LBNL.
Electricity Markets & Policy, Early Career Cohort
2020
Topic(s): Career pathways at LBNL
Gave an invited talk to early career scientists in the Electricity Markets & Policy Department at
LBNL on my own career path, what is required to be successful at the Lab, and tradeoffs between
national lab and traditional academic careers.
Energy & Biosciences Institute Project Feature Videos
2018
Topic(s): Highlights of new projects in the EBI, including material science and energy storage
Planned and conducted filmed interviews with EBI PIs on their projects, geared toward generalpublic.
Joint BioEnergy Institute ”Science 101” Videos
2016
Topic(s): Explaining technoeconomic analysis
Filmed introductory video on technoeconomic analysis in a bioenergy context for JBEI YouTube
channel geared toward general public.
Carnegie Science Center National Engineers’ Week
2006-2007
Topic(s): Life-cycle assessment mapping and buoyancy demonstrations Created and managed two
display booths for children K-8.
SEED Educational Program
2008
Topic(s): Introduction to climate and energy
Helped develop the curriculum for this after-school educational program aimed at teaching juniorhigh students about energy and climate change.
7th Annual UC Berkeley Sustainability Summit
2010
Topic(s): Campus-wide discussion about sustainability
Sat on a four-member panel including Vice Chancellor Ed Denton and Vice Provost Cathy Koshland,
and answered questions about how the graduate student community is involved in campus sustainability at UC Berkeley. Video of the panel discussion can be found here: http://sustainability.
berkeley.edu/cacs/pages/summits/overview.shtml
Matching Grad School Choices with Environmental Career Goals

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Topic(s): Panel discussion on how to choose grad schools and degree programs for students interested
in sustainability
Organized and sat on this panel discussion for undergraduates interested in attending grad school
in areas related to energy and the environment.
Female-Focused Engineering OutreachEngineering Your Future
2003-2006
Topic(s): Basic engineering concepts and demonstrations for high school girls in Pittsburgh, PA
Helped organize and led groups of girls through laboratory demonstrations for this day-long program.
Summer Engineering Experience
2007
Topic(s): Basic engineering concepts and demonstrations for high school girls in Pittsburgh, PA
Lectured for this two week summer program for 8th and 9th grade girls in Pittsburgh, PA.
High School Day
2004-2007
Topic(s): Basic engineering concepts and demonstrations for high school girls in Pittsburgh, PA
Lectured for this two week summer program for 8th and 9th grade girls in Pittsburgh, PA.