People
Board of Advisors
The UC Davis Energy Efficiency Center (EEC) has partners with utility companies, private sector developers, and public agencies in California and the U.S. to ensure energy-efficient solutions are broadly implemented.
The EEC’s Leadership Sponsors serve on as members of the Board of Advisors, which is comprised of leaders from the California Clean Energy Fund (CalCEF), California’s largest investor-owned utilities, and private sector interests.
Faculty Leadership
Acting Director – Daniel Sperling
Associate Directors:
Andy Hargadon, Commercialization
Frank Loge, Water Efficiency
Alan Meier, Education
Mark Modera, Buildings - Cooling
Michael Siminovitch, Buildings - Lighting
James Thompson, Agriculture & Food Processing
Affiliated Campus Faculty Leadership and Researcher
The EEC is organized along three broad research tracks: Agriculture and Food Production, Buildings, and Transportation and relies on the innovation and expertise of its UC Davis campus affiliate partners to provide leadership on, and development of, future energy efficiency research projects. The EEC draws upon a wide range of disciplines and collaborates with affiliated researchers from a variety of colleges, departments, and centers at UC Davis.
Agriculture and Food Processing
California Biomass Collaborative (Bryan Jenkins)
California Institute for Food and Agricultural Research (Sharon Shoemaker)
Post Harvest Technology Information and Research Center (James Thompson)
Buildings - Lighting and Cooling
California Lighting Technology Center (Michael Siminovitch and Konstantinos Papamichael)
Western Cooling Efficiency Center (Mark Modera)
Facilities Management (Chris Cioni)
Transportation
Intitute of Transportation Studies (Daniel Sperling)
Transportation Sustainability Research Center, UC Berkeley (Susan Shaheen)
Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicle Research Center (Tom Turrentine)
Hydrogen Production and Utilization Laboratory (Paul Erickson)
Staff
Executive Director
Benjamin Finkelor
Senior Director of Development
Joe Krovoza
Director, Program for International Energy Technologies
Kurt Kornbluth
Associate Program Manager
Gwynn Benner
Administrative Assistant
Stephanie Timmons
Student Emerging Venture Analysts
Emerging Venture Analysts (EVAs) are at the heart of what the EEC does. These business and engineering graduate students and advanced undergraduates are funded by the EEC to assist later-stage researchers in developing and designing innovative energy-efficient technologies and bringing these technologies to market. Internship Programs and Fellowships are offered annually.
In the three years since the EEC's existence, our Emerging Venture Analysts have done extraordinary things. All of our alumni have found jobs or are working on various aspects of energy and energy efficiency within industry, government, academia, and the private sector.