Daniel Sperling is Acting Director of the Energy Efficiency Center (EEC), Professor of Civil Engineering and Environmental Science and Policy, and founding Director of the Institute of Transportation Studies at the University of California, Davis. He was appointed by Governor Schwarzenegger to the California Air Resources Board in February 2007. Dr. Sperling is recognized as a leading international expert on transportation technology assessment, energy and environmental aspects of transportation, and transportation and climate policy. He has testified to the U.S. Congress and state legislatures, and provided keynote presentations and invited talks in recent years at international conferences in Asia, Europe, and North America. In the past 25 years, Dr. Sperling has authored or co-authored over 200 technical papers and 11 books, including Two Billion Cars (Oxford University Press, 2009). He is chair of the (Davos) World Economic Forum council on “Future of Mobility” and a recent or current member of 12 National Academies committees on Energy Efficiency, Transportation and Climate Policy, Gasoline Taxes, Hydrogen, Transport in China, Biomass Fuels R&D, and others. He was founding chair of standing committees for the U.S. Transportation Research Board on Alternative Transportation Fuels (1989-96), and Sustainability and Transportation (2006-08). He serves on many advisory committees and advises senior executives of several automotive and energy companies, environmental groups, and national governments, including review committees at three U.S. Department of Energy national laboratories. Dr. Sperling's complete CV can be found at: http://www.its.ucdavis.edu/people/faculty/sperling/

Andrew Hargadon is Founding Director of the EEC, the Charles J. Soderquist Chair in Entrepreneurship, Director of the Center for Entrepreneurship and Professor in the Graduate School of Management (GSM) at UC Davis. Dr. Hargadon came to UC Davis from the University of Florida. Prior to that, he worked as a product designer at IDEO and Apple Computer and taught in the Product Design program at Stanford University. Dr. Hargadon's research focuses on the effective management of innovation and he has written extensively on knowledge and technology brokering, the role of learning and knowledge management in innovation and the strategic role of design in managing technology transitions. Dr. Hargadon's research has been used to develop or guide new innovation programs in organizations as diverse as the Canadian Health Services, Silicon Valley start-ups, Hewlett-Packard, and the U.S. Navy. Dr. Hargadon received his Ph.D. from the Management Science and Engineering Department in Stanford University's School of Engineering, where he was named a Boeing Fellow and Sloan Foundation Future Professor of Manufacturing. Dr. Hargadon received his B.S. and M.S. in Stanford University's Product Design Program in the Mechanical Engineering Department. He is the author of How Breakthroughs Happen: The Surprising Truth About How Companies Innovate (Harvard Business School Press, 2003). His complete CV can be found at: http://www.andrewhargadon.com/Hargadon_CV_11.06.pdf

Alan Meier is Associate Director and a Faculty Researcher with the EEC, where he teaches core energy efficiency courses and supervises graduate student activities. Dr. Meier is also a Senior Scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. His research has focused on understanding how people (and machines) use energy and the opportunities that exist for them (and technologies) to conserve. His research on "standby power use" in appliances—equal to 1% of global CO2 emissions—led him to propose an international plan to reduce standby power loss in all devices to less than 1 watt, which has now been endorsed by the G8 countries. His other research interests include energy use of consumer electronics, energy test procedures, rolling resistance of tires and international policies to promote energy efficiency. Dr. Meier is editor of the journal, Energy and Buildings, and the magazine, Home Energy. He is the author of many articles and two books, Supplying Energy through Greater Efficiency and Saving Electricity in a Hurry. Dr. Meier earned his Ph.D. in Energy & Resources from UC Berkeley after completing degrees in chemistry and economics. He spent one year at Waseda University in Japan and, more recently, three years at the International Energy Agency. Further information about the courses he is teaching, his research and publications is available at: http://eec.ucdavis.edu/Members/akmeier

Frank Loge is Associate Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering. His research focuses on three principal areas: water reuse, fate and transport of contaminants in the environment and optimization of existing treatment technologies and design of new treatment systems. The underlying theme of his research is to better understand the relationship between the structure and function of engineered/natural systems and human/environmental health. Current research topics include a novel environmentally benign manufacturing process utilizing renewable biopolymers to manufacture natural fiber reinforced thermoplastic composites (National Science Foundation), distributed physical and molecular separations for selective harvest of higher value wheat straw components: pilot-scale testing (US DOE), multi-community intervention with UV light disinfection for estimating the risk of gastrointestinal illness from drinking groundwater (US EPA), impact of environmental stressors on the dynamics of disease transmission in outmigrant juvenile salmon in the Columbia River Basin (NOAA), and correlations between spatial ecology and contaminants with the health of outmigrant salmon populations in the Columbia Estuary (Bonneville Power Administration).

Mark Modera is the Sempra Energy Chair in Energy Efficiency, Professor in Civil and Environmental Engineering, Director of the Western Cooling Efficiency Center (WCEC), and Associate Director of the EEC. He was President of Aeroseal, Inc., a business he founded to commercialize a technology he developed at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL). When Aeroseal was purchased by Carrier Corporation, Dr. Modera served as General Manager and later Vice President of Strategic Operations. He spent 25 years as a staff scientist at LBNL and was a visiting researcher at the University of Liege, Belgium in 1981. Dr. Modera's research interests include energy efficiency, ventilation and indoor air quality. While at LBNL, Dr. Modera initiated and grew an extensive research program for improving the energy efficiency of thermal energy distribution in buildings. He has been active in ASHRAE for 25 years, during which time he chaired and served upon many Technical, Standards and Society-level committees, including serving as Chairman of ASHRAE Standards Project Committee 152P, which published a new standard for rating the efficiency of residential thermal distribution systems in 2004. Dr. Modera has a B.E., M.S., and Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering. More information about the WCEC can be found at: http://wcec.ucdavis.edu/content/view/41/63/

Michael Siminovitch is Director of the California Lighting Technology Center (CLTC), Professor of Design, and Associate Director of the EEC. Dr. Siminovitch’s work entails research and development in new residential and commercial lighting technologies. He works with manufacturers, utilities and state agencies to test and demonstrate next-generation lighting systems. Dr. Siminovitch has developed many successful lighting products, such as the Berkeley Lamp, which saves three-quarters of the wattage used by traditional lamps. He has also developed an innovative fluorescent down lighting system for commercial and residential spaces, high performance torchiere, high efficiency sulfur lamp, and fiber optic illuminators. D r. Siminovitch is a graduate of Carleton University. He received Masters degrees in Industrial Design and Architecture from the University of Illinois, and earned his Ph.D. in Architecture and Human Factors Engineering from the University of Michigan. Dr. Siminovitch’s complete CV can be found at: http://cltc.ucdavis.edu/images/images/siminovitch%20-%20curriculum%20vitae.pdf

James F. Thompson is Faculty Director of the Post Harvest Technology Research and Information Center, an Extension Specialist, and Associate Director of the EEC. His areas of interest are cooling, packaging and transportation of horticultural commodities. He is working on applied research focused on increasing the efficiency of drying systems and improving product quality for crops such as walnuts, pistachios, raisins, and prunes. Mr. Thompson is also working to improve design and operation of cooling systems and cold storage facilities, including forced-air coolers for fresh cut flowers. His recent work includes studying energy use of various cooling systems and developing recommendations for minimizing energy consumption. Mr. Thompson is also working to reduce sulfite residues in table grapes and studying mechanisms for reducing damage to crops from transit-related vibration. He has an M.S. in Agricultural Engineering from the University of California, Davis. For Mr. Thompson’s complete CV please visit: http://postharvest.ucdavis.edu/postharvestdata/detailreport.cfm?usernumber=9&surveynumber=183