Arun Majumdar

Arun Majumdar
Director of Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy (ARPA-E)
In office September, 2009 – June, 2012
President	Barack Obama
Deputy	Cheryl Martin
Preceded by	Position Established
Succeeded by	Cheryl Martin (acting)
Personal details
Alma mater	University of California, Berkeley Indian Institute of Technology Bombay

Arun Majumdar is a materials scientist, engineer, and University of California, Berkeley graduate who was President Barack Obama's nominee for the Under Secretary of Energy between November 30, 2011 and May 15, 2012.^[1] He formerly ran the Environmental Energy Technologies Division at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, where he was also deputy director of LBNL as well as professor of mechanical engineering at the University of California, Berkeley. He was nominated^[2] to be the first director of the U.S. Department of Energy's Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) and appointed to that position in September 2009.
On May 15, 2012, the White House withdrew Majumdar's nomination.^[3]
On Dec 17, 2012, Google announced that Arun joined Google to drive Google.org’s energy initiatives and advise the company on their broader energy strategy.^[4]
Arun is a leading scientist in the fields of thermoelectric materials, heat and mass transfer, thermal management, and waste heat recovery. He has published several hundred papers, patents, and conference proceedings,^[5] and is a member of the National Academy of Engineering.
On August 16, 2012, Arun Majumdar co-published a paper in Nature with United States Secretary of Energy Steven Chu on Opportunities and Challenges for a Sustainable Energy Future, as well as gave a talk on the paper on the subject at Stanford University.
Arun Majumdar is now the Jay Precourt Professor at Stanford University, where he serves on the faculty of the Department of Mechanical Engineering and is a Senior Fellow of the Precourt Institute for Energy.
Majumdar was appointed Science Envoys of the US on 5 December 2014

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References

1. "President Obama Announces More Key Administration Posts". http://energy.gov. Retrieved 30 November 2011.
2. llbl-nomination (September 18, 2009). "White House nominates Berkeley Lab’s Majumdar to head key DOE agency". 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