Rice University experts are available to provide timely, independent analysis on carbon management, critical minerals and emerging energy technologies. (Click here for a list of Rice experts on energy markets, oil, geopolitics and grid reliability.)
Carbon management, climate resilience and law
Jim Blackburn, environmental lawyer, planner and professor in the practice of environmental law in civil and environmental engineering; co-director of Rice’s Severe Storm Prevention, Education and Evacuation from Disaster Center (SSPEED); faculty scholar at Rice’s Baker Institute
Expertise: Carbon credits and carbon markets, including founding the nonprofit carbon registry BCarbon, carbon capture policy, climate resilience and hurricane protection planning for the Texas Gulf Coast and environmental law and legal strategies related to climate and energy systems.
Michael Wong, Tina and Sunit Patel Professor in Molecular Nanotechnology
Expertise: Cleaner industrial processes, scalable solutions to reduce industrial emissions and water impacts on energy production.
Critical minerals and energy supply chains
Rachel Meidl, fellow in energy and sustainability and deputy director of the Center for Energy Studies at Rice’s Baker Institute
Expertise: Life cycle impacts, recycling strategies and risks in global energy and materials supply chains.
Gabriel Collins, Baker Botts Fellow in Energy and Environmental Regulatory Affairs at Rice’s Baker Institute
Expertise: Analysis of energy regulation, industrial policy and geopolitical risk, including Russia’s energy strategy, China’s energy and materials policy and the intersection of energy and water security.
Energy storage, solar and advanced materials
Lane Martin, Robert A. Welch Professor of Materials Science and NanoEngineering
Expertise: Materials innovation for the energy transition, including low power electronics, pulsed-power sources and more reliable energy technologies.
Haotian Wang, associate professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering
Expertise: Technologies that convert renewable electricity and carbon dioxide into fuels and chemicals, battery recycling and critical mineral recovery.
Sibani Lisa Biswal, William M. McCardell Professor in Chemical Engineering
Expertise: Energy materials and multiphase flow in energy systems, including next-generation batteries, battery recycling and lithium recovery from geothermal brines, enhanced oil recovery and pipeline flow assurance to strengthen energy security and infrastructure reliability.
Aditya Mohite, William M. Rice Trustee Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering; faculty director of Rice Engineering Initiative for Energy Transition and Sustainability; director of Woodside-Rice Decarbonization Accelerator
Expertise: Advanced solar materials and next-generation semiconductors that increase efficiency and durability of solar energy systems, solar-to-fuel conversion technologies, plasma conversion of feedstocks such as carbon dioxide, methane and nitrogen gas to valuable products and scaling-up energy systems.
To schedule an interview with any of the experts, please contact media relations specialists Silvia Cernea Clark at silvia.cernea.clark@rice.edu, Alex Becker at alex.becker@rice.edu and Avery Franklin at averyrf@rice.edu.