Ted Sargent is Executive Director of Trienens – the Institute for Sustainability and Energy at Northwestern University. Within his own research group at Northwestern, he leads a team of fifty researchers in Chemistry and in Engineering working on next-generation solar, optical sensing, and CO2 direct air capture and CO2 upgrade science and technology. His works have been cited 110,000 times; 170 of his works have been cited 170 times or more [all Scopus].