William Tumas

Associate Laboratory Director National Renewable Energy Laboratory

Biography

​Dr. William Tumas is the Associate Laboratory Director for Materials and Chemical Science and Technology at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), which carries out fundamental and applied R&D for renewable energy and energy efficiency including solar energy conversion for electricity and fuels, materials discovery and development for renewable energy technologies, energy storage, hydrogen production, and fuel cells.  Bill is also the Director of the Center for the Next Generation of Materials Design. Energy Frontier Research Center and led the Center for Inverse Design EFRC from 2011-2014.  Prior to joining NREL in 2009, Bill held a number of leadership positions at Los Alamos National Laboratory for 17 years including the Program Director for Applied Energy Programs and group leader of inorganic chemistry.  He started his career at Dupont Central Research after postdoctoral research at Caltech.  He received a Ph.D in Organic Chemistry from Stanford University and a B.A in Chemistry from Ithaca College.  His research activities have included materials by design, solar energy conversion, chemical hydrogen storage, catalysis, supercritical fluids and alternate reaction media, green chemistry, and waste treatment technology development and assessment.  He has over 65 peer-reviewed publications, 12 patents, and has given over 125 invited presentations. 

All sessions by William Tumas

Advances in Materials, Concepts and Processes for Solar Energy Conversion, Carbon Dioxide Reduction (CO2R), and Water Splitting
04:00 PM

Meeting our future global energy needs in an environmentally responsible way is one of the greatest challenges in the twenty first century. The development of new materials and processes is critical to developing the needed disruptive technologies for energy conversion, delivery, storage, and use. This talk will provide an overview of recent advances from NREL on solar and electrically-driven hydrogen production from water splitting as well as carbon dioxide reduction (CO2R). Our Electrons to Molecules Initiative utilizes a large cross-section of expertise and capabilities across NREL for the purpose of utilizing electricity as an energetic driving force for the conversion of low energy molecules such as water, CO2, and N2 to generate high valued added molecules that can be utilized as either fuels, chemicals, product, and energy storage. We will also discuss R&D efforts on materials design and discovery for these and related solar energy conversion processes.

William Tumas

Associate Laboratory Director National Renewable Energy Laboratory

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Conference workshop: Career Development Panel Discussion
04:00 PM

We are delighted that our guests Nancy Haegel (Center Director for the Materials Science Center, NREL) , Bill Tumas (Associate Laboratory Director for Materials and Chemical Science and Technology, NREL) and Elizabeth von Hauff (Associate Professor in the Department of Physics & Astronomy at the VU Amsterdam) will join KSC Professors Thomas Anthopoulos and Frederic Laquai in a Career Development Panel Discussion to be hosted by KSC Director, Prof. Iain McCulloch.

Elizabeth von Hauff

Associate Professor in Physics of Energy Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

William Tumas

Associate Laboratory Director National Renewable Energy Laboratory

Nancy M. Haegel

Center Director for the Materials Science Center in the Materials and Chemical Sciences Directorate at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL)

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