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Panel on Alternative Liquid Transportation Fuels
Members’ Biographical Sketches
Michael P. Ramage (Chair) is retired executive vice president of ExxonMobil Research
and Engineering Company. Previously, he was executive vice president, chief technology
officer, and director of Mobil Oil Corporation. Dr. Ramage held a number of positions at
Mobil, including research associate, manager of process research and development,
general manager of exploration and producing research and technical service, vice
president of engineering, and president of Mobil Technology Company. He has broad
experience in many aspects of the petroleum and chemical industries. He has served on a
number of university visiting committees and was a member of the Government
University Industry Research Roundtable. He was a director of the American Institute of
Chemical Engineers. Dr. Ramage chaired the recent National Research Council group
that produced the report The Hydrogen Economy: Opportunities, Costs, Barriers, and
R&D Needs. He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering (NAE) and has
served on the NAE Council.
G. David Tilman (Vice Chair) is Regents’ Professor and McKnight Presidential Chair in
Ecology at the University of Minnesota. His research explores how to meet human needs
for energy, food, and ecosystem services sustainably. He is a member of the National
Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, is a J. S.
Guggenheim Fellow, and is a recipient of the Ecological Society of America’s Cooper
Award and its MacArthur Award the Botanical Society of America’s Centennial Award,
and the Princeton Environmental Prize. He has written two books, edited three more, and
published more than 200 scientific papers, including more than 30 in Science, Nature,
and the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of
America. For the last 18 years, the Institute for Scientific Information has ranked him as
the world’s most-cited environmental scientist. In 2008, the emperor of Japan presented
him with the International Prize for Biology.
David Gray is director of energy systems analysis at Noblis (formerly Mitretek
Systems), a nonprofit consulting company. His expertise is in coal and natural-gas
conversion to liquid fuels, heavy-oil and bitumen upgrading technologies, waste-to-
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energy conversion systems, and greenhouse-gas emission and reduction analysis.
Previously, he worked as a research manager at the Fuel Research Institute in South
Africa on coal-to-liquid transportation-fuels production processes.
Robert D. Hall is retired general manager of Amoco Corporation. He has extensive
experience in alternative-fuels R&D, in strategic planning, in R&D management, and in
technology innovation. Mr. Hall held a number of positions at Amoco Corporation,
including general manager of alternative-fuels development, manager of management
systems and planning, director of the Amoco Oil Company R&D Department, director of
Amoco Oil Company Design and Economics Division, and supervisor of the Amoco
Chemical Company Process Design and Economic Division. He has served on several
National Research Council committees, including the Committee on Production
Technologies for Liquid Transportation Fuels, the Committee on Strategic Assessment of
the Department of Energy’s Coal Program, the Committee to Review the R&D Strategy
for Biomass-Derived Ethanol and Biodiesel Transportation Fuels, and the Committee on
Benefits of DOE R&D on Efficiency and Fossil Energy. Mr. Hall is a past chairman of
the International Council on Alternate Fuels.
Edward A. Hiler retired as the holder of the Ellison Chair in International Floriculture of
Texas A&M University. He headed the Texas A&M University System Agriculture
Program, which encompasses the Texas Agricultural Experiment Station, the Texas
Cooperative Extension, the Texas Forest Service, the Texas Veterinary Medical
Diagnostic Laboratory, and agricultural colleges at five system universities. He also
served as dean of agriculture and life sciences at Texas A&M University, was head of the
Department of Agricultural Engineering, and was deputy chancellor for academic and
research programs and interim chancellor for the Texas A&M University System. His
primary technical interests are in soil and water conservation engineering, small-
watershed hydrology, irrigation and drainage engineering, and soil-plant-water-
atmosphere relations in connection with irrigation management. He has been especially
interested in plant response to water, nutrient, and oxygen deficits, in particular as they
differ at various stages of plant growth and as they are related to irrigation and drainage
management systems for minimizing these deficits. Other interests have included
alternative energy sources with emphasis on biomass energy and the associated
biochemical and microbiological energy-conversion processes. His career
accomplishments have earned numerous honors and awards, including membership in the
National Academy of Engineering, designation as a Distinguished Alumnus of Ohio State
University, and presidency of the American Society of Agricultural Engineers (ASAE) in
1991-1992 and the Southern Association of Agricultural Scientists in 1999.He received
the Texas A&M Faculty Distinguished Achievement Award in 1973, the ASAE Young
Researcher Award in 1977, and the John Deere Gold Medal in 1991. He has served as a
consultant to the U.S. Congress Office of Technology Assessment and the U.S.
Department of the Interior Office of Water Research and Technology. He serves on the
board of CNH Global, the world's largest manufacturer of agricultural equipment.
W.S. Winston Ho is a university scholar professor in the Department of Chemical and
Bimolecular Engineering at Ohio State University. His research interests include
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molecular-based membrane separations, fuel-cell fuel processing and membranes,
transport phenomena in membranes, and separations based on chemical reactions. In
2006, he was the recipient of the Institute Award for Excellence in Industrial Gases
Technology from the American Institute of Chemical Engineers. Dr. Ho is a member of
the National Academy of Engineering.
Douglas L. Karlen is a supervisory research soil scientist with the U.S. Department of
Agriculture’s Agricultural Research Service (USDA-ARS) and research leader in the Soil
and Water Quality Research Unit of the USDA-ARS National Soil Tilth Laboratory. He
is also professor in the Department of Agronomy at Iowa State University (ISU), mentor
for the Graduate Program on Sustainability at ISU, and associate professor in the
Department of Entomology, Soils, and Plant Sciences at Clemson University. Dr. Karlen
is leading a project on sustainable agriculture and resource management and conservation
and on the effects of growing crops for biofuels and bioenergy. His soil and crop
management research program uses a systems approach involving producers, action
agencies, nongovernment organizations, agribusiness, and other state and federal research
partners to quantify the physical, chemical, and biological effects of conventional and
organic farming practices. Effects of tillage, crop rotation, nutrient management, and
other decision-based factors are evaluated by determining how they affect soil quality,
crop productivity, plant-nutrient availability, and nutrient or soil losses in various soil
types and landscape positions. Dr. Karlen has conducted a number of studies of the
effects of agricultural systems and practices on nutrient loadings, biogeochemical cycles,
soil and water quality, and crop production and costs. He received an MS in soil science
from Michigan State University and a PhD in agronomy from Kansas State University.
James R. Katzer is an energy consultant and an affiliate professor in the Department of
Chemical and Biological Engineering of Iowa State University who recently has been a
visiting scholar at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Laboratory for
Energy and the Environment and executive director of MIT’s “The Future of Coal” study.
He was manager of strategic planning and program analysis for the ExxonMobil
Research and Engineering Company. Before that, he was vice president of technology for
the Mobil Oil Corporation with primary responsibilities of ensuring Mobil’s overall
technical health, developing forward-looking technology scenarios, and identifying and
analyzing technology and environmental developments and trends. He joined the Central
Research Laboratory of the Mobil Oil Corporation in 1981 and later became manager of
process research and technical service and vice president of planning and finance for the
Mobil Research and Development Corporation. Before joining Mobil, he was a professor
in the chemical-engineering faculty at the University of Delaware and the first director of
the Center for Catalytic Science and Technology. Dr. Katzer has over 80 publications in
technical journals, holds several patents, and is a coauthor or editor several books. Dr.
Katzer is a member of the National Academy of Engineering.
Michael R. Ladisch is the director of the Laboratory of Renewable Resources
Engineering and Distinguished Professor or Agricultural and Biological Engineering and
Biomedical Engineering at Purdue University and the chief technology officer of
Mascoma Corporation. His expertise is in bioseparations, bionanotechnology bioprocess
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engineering, and bioenergy. His research has resulted in systematic approaches and
correlations for scaling up chromatographic purification techniques from the laboratory to
process-scale manufacturing systems. His work has resulted in 150 publications, a
textbook on bioseparations, 14 patents, and over 100 papers presented at national
professional-society meetings. He has served as a member of U.S. delegations and
advisory panels to Russia, Thailand, China, and Japan to review the status of
biotechnology programs. He has also chaired several National Research Council
committees concerning biotechnology. He is a member of the National Academy of
Engineering. He is a cofounder of Biovitesse, a startup company in pathogen detection.
He serves on the scientific board of Agrivida and is a cofounder of Celsys, Inc. Both
companies address technology in cellulose ethanol.
John A. Miranowski is professor of economics and director of the Institute of Science
and Society at Iowa State University (ISU). Dr. Miranowski’s current research is focused
on economics of renewable energy and carbon policy, and he has published broadly on
the economics of natural resources and environmental issues, including producer and
consumer response to higher energy prices, corn and cellulosic biofuel economics, energy
efficiency in agriculture, and resource-conservation policy and sustainability. He
previously served as chair of the Department of Economics at ISU; director of the
Resources and Technology Division of the Economic Research Service of the U.S.
Department of Agriculture (USDA), executive coordinator of the USDA Policy
Coordination Council, and special assistant to the deputy secretary of agriculture. Dr.
Miranowski also headed the U.S delegation to the Organisation for Economic Co-
ordination and Development Joint Working Party on Agriculture and Environment and
served as director on the Board of the Association of Environmental and Resource
Economists and on the Board of the Agricultural & Applied Economics Association. Dr.
Miranowski served as a member of the National Research Council Committee on Impact
of Emerging Agricultural Trends on Fish and Wildlife Habitat and a panel member of the
Committee on Opportunities in Agriculture . He received the USDA Distinguished
Service Honor Award for Biofuels Program Development in 1993. He earned a BS in
agricultural business from ISU and an AM and a PhD in economics from Harvard
University.
Michael Oppenheimer is the Albert G. Milbank Professor of Geosciences and
International Affairs in the Woodrow Wilson School and the Department of Geosciences
at Princeton University. He is also the director of the program in science, technology, and
environmental policy at the Woodrow Wilson School and faculty associate of the
Atmospheric and Ocean Sciences Program and the Center of International Studies. Dr.
Oppenheimer's interests include science and policy related to the atmosphere, particularly
climate change and its effects. His research explores the potential effects of global
warming, including the effects of warming on atmospheric chemistry, on ecosystems and
the nitrogen cycle, on ocean circulation, and on the ice sheets in the context of defining
"dangerous anthropogenic interference" with the climate system. Dr. Oppenheimer joined
the Princeton faculty after more than 2 decades with Environmental Defense, a
nongovernment environmental organization, where he served as chief scientist and
manager of the Global and Regional Atmosphere Program. Recently, Dr. Oppenheimer
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served as a lead author of the Third Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on
Climate Change. Dr. Oppenheimer was a member the National Research Council Panel
on Climate Variability and Change. He received an SB in chemistry from the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a PhD in chemical physics from the
University of Chicago.
Ronald F. Probstein is Ford Professor of Engineering emeritus at the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology. His research interests are in physicochemical hydrodynamics,
fluid mechanics, synthetic fuels, and environmental-control technology. He was named a
Guggenheim Fellow, and a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the
American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, the American Physical Society, the
American Association for the Advancement of Science, and the American Society of
Mechanical Engineers (ASME). He was the recipient of the Freeman Award in Fluids
Engineering of ASME and holds an honorary doctorate from Brown University. In
addition to his research in synthetic fuels, largely in coal conversion and associated
water-use minimization, he published Synthetic Fuels, which was reprinted by Dover
Publications in 2006, and the research monograph Water in Synthetic Fuel Production
(MIT Press, 1978).He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and the
National Academy of Sciences.
Harold H. Schobert is a professor of fuel science in the Department of Energy and
Mineral Engineering at Pennsylvania State University. He also has a visiting appointment
as extraordinary professor of natural sciences at North-West University in South Africa.
He has published over 100 peer-reviewed papers in coal chemistry, carbon and graphite,
novel reactions in petroleum refining, and carbon dioxide capture. He has been the leader
of Pennsylvania State University’s coal-to-jet fuel program, which has developed a coal-
based replacement for conventional jet fuels. Dr. Schobert was a member of the Energy
Engineering Board at the National Research Council from 1990 to 1996.
Christopher R. Somerville is the director of the Energy BioSciences Institute in
Berkeley, California. He oversees all activities at the institute, including research,
communication, education and outreach. He also chairs the institute’s Executive
Committee. Dr. Somerville is a professor in the Department of Plant and Microbial
Biology at the University of California, Berkeley and a visiting scientist at the Lawrence
Berkeley National Laboratory. His research focuses on the characterization of proteins
implicated in plant cell-wall synthesis and modification. He has published more than 200
scientific papers in plant and microbial genetics, genomics, biochemistry, and
biotechnology. Dr. Somerville has served on the scientific advisory boards of many
corporations, academic institutions, and private foundations in Europe and North
America. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, the Royal Society of
London, and the Royal Society of Canada.
Gregory Stephanopoulos is Willard Dow Professor of Biotechnology and Chemical
Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The central focus of his
research is metabolic engineering, the improvement of cellular properties using modern
genetic tools with attention to industrial applications, and biomedical research aimed at
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the elucidation of key physiological differences that characterize disease states and can
guide drug and therapy development. He has received numerous awards, including the
American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) Wilhelm Award in Chemical
Reaction Engineering (2001), the Marvin Johnson Award of the Biotechnology Division
of the American Chemical Society (2000), the AIChE Food, Pharmaceutical &
Bioengineering Division Award (1997), and the Technical Achievement Award of the
AIChe Southern California section (1984). Dr. Stephanopoulos is a member of the
National Academy of Engineering. He received a PhD degree in chemical engineering
from the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis.
James L. Sweeney is the director of the Precourt Institute for Energy Efficiency and
former chairman of the Department of Engineering-Economic Systems and Operations
Research of Stanford University. He has been a consultant, director of the Office of
Energy Systems, director of the Office of Quantitative Methods, and director of the
Office of Energy Systems Modeling and Forecasting of the Federal Energy
Administration. At Stanford University, he has been chairman of the Institute of Energy
Studies, director of the Center for Economic Policy Research, and director of the Energy
Modeling Forum. He has served on several National Research Council committees,
including the Committee on the National Energy Modeling System and the Committee on
the Human Dimensions of Global Change. He also served on the Committee on Benefits
of DOE’s R&D on Energy Efficiency and Fossil Energy, helping to develop the
framework and method that the committee applied to evaluating benefits. His research
and writings address economic and policy issues important for natural-resource
production and use; energy markets, including those in oil, natural gas, and electricity;
environmental protection; and the use of mathematical models to analyze energy markets.
He has a BS from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a PhD degree in
engineering-economic systems from Stanford University.
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