Teaming Partners

Submit Entry to Teaming Partner List
v
   Show Advanced Search
Keyword Search includes Investigator Name, Investigator Title, Organization, Background, and Address. Use operators "AND" or "OR" to fine tune your search. Please use only one operator per search. For example, the search term "biofuels AND modeling" will return results that include both the words biofuels and modeling, while the search term "biofuels OR modeling" will return results that include the word biofuels, modeling, or both.
View Archived Teaming Partners

By enabling and publishing the Teaming Partner List, ARPA-E is not endorsing, sponsoring, or otherwise evaluating the qualifications of the individuals and organizations that are self-identifying themselves for placement on this Teaming Partner List.

The columns below can be sorted alphabetically by clicking on the column heading and reverse alphabetically sorted by clicking twice on the column heading. Type into the white boxes or use the dropdown options to filter within the search results.

 
Organization 
Investigator Name 
Investigator Title 
Organization Type 
Area of Expertise 
Background, Interest,
and Capabilities
 
Contact Information 
State 
 
xv
xv
 
xv
 University of WyomingMr JonathonBenson  Academic Other Energy Technologies Mr Jonathon Benson
Cheif Executive Officer
Wyoming Technology Business Center
University of Wyoming Campus
Laramie WY 82071
Website: N/A

Email: jbenson@uwyo.edu

Phone: 307 766 2030

Address: Univesity of Wyoming Campus 82071
 
 Mississippi State UniversityFei Yu  Academic Bioenergy As a member of the Sustainable Energy Research Center (SERC), Dr. Fei Yu leads the biofuels production activities in Mississippi State and collaborates extensively with other faculties in the university. The SERC team includes biomass feedstock physiologists with expertise in crop growth and engineers from agriculture, chemical, and industrial system fields; especially expertise in fast pyrolysis, gasification, syngas cleaning, methane reforming, catalytic conversion. The SERC team is looking forward to collaborate with both university and industry partners with expertise in renewable energy production and economic analysis.
Website: http://fy29.abe.msstate.edu/

Email: fyu@abe.msstate.edu

Phone: 6623250206

Address: 130 Creelman Street, Mississippi State, MS 39762
 
 CeramatecDolly Chitta  Small Business Power Generation and Energy Production: Liquid and Gaseous Fuels/Nuclear My name is Dolly Chitta. I am the PI on ARPA-E funded program for “Natural gas to Chemicals”. I worked with several ARPA-E PD’s Dr. Boysen, Dr. Lemmon, Dr. Cheryl Martin (former) and Dr. Mumme (current) T2M advisor. I have successfully transitioned the program from TRL 1-5 to private funding (Multimillion in 2 years) wherein CoorsTek has taken over the technology scale up effort beyond ARPA_E funding. I have a PhD with background in Chemical engg. I was part of a team for spinning off new start-ups as well as license the technologies to other companies. I work closely with a number of Fortune 500, privately held large companies, universities and VC firms for T2M (ex. Air Products, Chevron, Hunt Oil, CoorsTek, SABIC, BP, Grace Davison, Albemarle, Western H2 and ExxonMobil, UC Berkeley and Harvard U, UNC, Northwestern, ANL). I understand the ecosystem of technology transition for energy projects from early stage to ultimate commercialization and believe I can add value to ARPA-E teams.  
 Georgia Southern UniversityValentin Soloiu, Prof. Dr. Distinguished Chair of Renewable Energy  Academic Transportation Dr. Soloiu's research directions are in renewable and sustainable first and second generation biofuels, with emphasis on new advanced combustion technologies, heat transfer and emissions, spray dynamics, and mixture formation, smart-engine control strategies, and engine tribology all with biofuels.
The 2M$ state of the art Biofuels Combustion laboratory has 20 undergraduate students and 4 graduate students working in biofuels research.In the Renewable Energy and Engine Combustion and Automotive Laboratories multiple disciplines and faculty address the production requirements for a viable energy substitute for petroleum fuels.

Main Research Topics

1) Reactivity Controlled Compression Ignition/ Low Temperature Combustion of Biofuels
2) Alternative fuels combustion & emissions in IC engines and gas turbine: poultry fat, peanuts, JP8, ethanol, butanol, Sasol
3) Mie scattering sprays analysis and Tribology with biofuels
Website: http://ceit.georgiasouthern.edu/engine/

Email: vsoloiu@georgiasouthern.edu

Phone: (912) 478-2293

Address: Department of Mechanical Engineering Georgia Southern University 201 COBA Drive, Engineering Bldg. Statesboro, GA 30460-8046, USA
 
 TeselaGenMichael Fero  Small Business Bioenergy At TeselaGen, we are building a bioCAD/CAM rapid prototyping system for biology. Our mission is to provide a design-build-test-evolve platform for automated combinatorial DNA assembly, meeting our customer's need for well managed, scalable, and very low-cost DNA construction and assembly. Our customers use our technology for plant modification, development of biologics and industrial microbe development. Our platform is based on technology licensed from the Joint BioEnergy Institute (JBEI).
Website: www.teselagen.com

Email: mike.fero@teselagen.com

Phone: 6503875932

Address: 953 Indiana St.
 
 Farmatic Inc.Michael R. Schuppenhauer, Ph.D.  Small Business Bioenergy Farmatic Inc. engineers, designs, and builds anaerobic digester for the conversion of organic waste and feedstocks to biogas, a feedstock for the conversion to renewable CNG or LNG, a biofuel. We have build more than 300 plants worldwide and have integrated the CNG upgrading into many plants and are looking to partner with other value chain members to implement applications in the US, especially using US typical feedstocks as substrate for biogas. We have active DOE funded research efforts in this area underway.
Website: www.farmatic.com/en

Email: schuppenhauer@cal.berkeley.edu

Phone: 6504408484

Address: 6517 Harwood Avenue, Oakland, CA 94618
 
 Wisconsin Institute for Sustainable TechnologyEric Singsaas  Academic Bioenergy Dr. Singsaas received his PhD in botany and biochemistry at the University of Wisconsin – Madison where he studied isoprene production and heat tolerance in oak and kudzu leaves. His research encompasses photosyntheses, heat stress, global change effects on plants and ecosystems as well as applications of plant biochemistry to develop new generations of bio-based products. He has five patents in renewable fuel and bio-based products technologies and has founded two startup companies to commercialize these new processes. He has expertise in gas exchange, photosynthesis modeling, chlorophyll fluorescence, leaf reflectance, photosynthetic radiation measurement, eddy covariance, stem flow, hydraulic conductance and other physiological measurements. Dr Singsaas also has experience in organosolv pulping, steam explosion, algal production, carbohydrate analysis, lignin analysis, and extraction of bio-based chemicals from plant biomass.
Website: http://www.uwsp.edu/wist

Email: Eric.Singsaas@uwsp.edu

Phone: 715-346-4259

Address: 800 Reserve Street – Stevens Point, WI 54481 USA
 
 E2SOL LLCAnthony Baro  Small Business Power Generation: Renewable E2SOL LLC (Efficient Energy Solutions), a Rhode Island based Limited Liability Company, innovates renewable energy technologies, develops sustainable project solutions and offer products designed to maximize Customer’s energy efficiency needs.
E2SOL offers Sustainable Design and Engineering Services designed to deliver Energy Efficient Developments to achieve Low Energy, Net-Zero Power, and/or Plus Energy Generation. Our project teams comprised of Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) Accredited, Professional Registered Architects and Engineers, integrate sustainable design practices to optimize the use of a project site’s available natural assets to maximize energy efficiency, reduce cost of operation and environmental impact of new developments.
- United States Government Small Business Contractor – DUNS # 032587890
Website: http://www.e2sol.com

Email: abaro@e2sol.com

Phone: 401-489-2273

Address: 5600 Post Road #262, East Greenwich, R.I. 02818
 
 Oklahoma State UniversityVijaya Gopal Kakani  Academic Bioenergy As a member of the Biobased Products and Energy Center (BioPEC), Gopal Kakani leads the bioenergy crop production activities in Oklahoma and collaborates extensively.
The BioPEC team includes crop physiologists with expertise in rapid field phenotyping and crop modeling; engineers from agriculture, aerospace, industrial and robotics fields; sensing specialists in areas of by-plant analysis and biomass composition; expertise in functional genomics, proteomics, and metabolomics; plant breeders with expertise in biomass enhancement; expertise in visualization and machine learning; expertise in NGS, GWAS and machine learning; facilities include cloud computing, HPC, petabyte storage, 100Gbit Ethernet connection, Wifi ready irrigated field facilities with security to host GFE.
The BioPEC team is looking forward to collaborate with industry partners with expertise in sensor integration and marketing and research facilities with rapid greenhouse phenotyping capabilities.
Website: http://bioenergycenter.okstate.edu/

Email: v.g.kakani@okstate.edu

Phone: 405-744-4046

Address: 369 AG Hall, Dept. Plant & Soil Sci., Oklahoma State University, Stillwater OK 74078
 
 Photon Systems InstrumentsDr. Stephen Hunt  Small Business Other Energy Technologies Photon Systems Instruments (PSI) manufactures plant phenotyping equipment customised to the user's precise requirements. The PlantScreen line includes systems for laboratory, growth room and field applications, and may be used with samples that range from Arabidopsis seedlings at emergence to mature sugar cane plants. PSI is the only company to incorporate PAM technology for chlorophyll fluorescence imaging in a plant phenotyping platform. PSI also provides technology for RGB and morphometric analysis, thermal imaging, hyperspectral imaging (VNIR and SWIR), as well as rhizotrons for root imaging. PSI's conveyor-based systems allow for plant randomisation in the growth space as well as delivery to imaging cabinets. Automated watering and weighing allow the user to program protocols for implementation of drought or flooding. All Plantscreens are supplied with comprehensive software for system control, data analysis and data base management. PSI is known for innovative technology.
Website: www.psi.cz

Email: steve@qubitsystems.com

Phone: 613-384-1977

Address: 801 University Avenue S.E., Suite 100, Albuquerque, NM 87106 USA
 
 MagnaKar INC Global Preservation SocietyJason Shira  Individual Bioenergy I have a college degree for computer Science, and I am a very deep and innovative thinker of new untapped inventions. Getting into the Renewable energy and Biotechnology for medicine and global preservation. Looking for people to connect with to help me with grant and research etc. I am a fighter and not afraid to work as hard as it takes to get something done. I am very quick on solution based ideas for any subject. I am setting goals and looking for a mentor to get me where I need to be. I just want to help. I am also a professional musician and a space/NASA geek wanting to become a NASA employee...
Website: http://www.linkedin.com/in/jasonshira

Email: jasonshira@gmail.com

Phone: 9162626683

Address: 2681 Cameron Park Dr #79
 
 Power Resource GroupRich Deming  Small Business Bioenergy We are located at ReVenture Park (www.reventurepark.com), a 670 acre former superfund site, now in the North Carolina Brownfield program. We have significant agricultural capabilities at the site--an excellent and well equipped land manager with staff to do a wide variety of plantings, and excellent ability to document the process and yields. We also have two bioenergy technologies on site--pyrolysis and cellulosic ethanol, which are available for research participation.

We are looking to collaborate with scientists who wish to do research under this RFI---we can handle the agricultural component in a cost effective manner and from unique perspectives----bioenergy with remediation of polluted soil, browndfield use for bioenergy, greenfield (our site is roughly divided between both) production, and use of utility easements for bioenergy crop production.
Website: www.prg-llc.com

Email: rich@prg-llc.com

Phone: 980-226-8750

Address: 11701 Mt. Holly Road, Charlotte, NC, 28214
 
 CSIROScott Chapman  Government Owned and Operated (GOGO) Bioenergy CSIRO, the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, is Australia's national science agency. Key research areas include crop improvement; farming systems for productivity and sustainability; global food security and development; and wireless sensing and autonomous robotics. The High Resolution Plant Phenomics Centre (HRPPC), is developing next generation research tools to probe plant function and performance both under controlled conditions and in the field. Advances in robotics, imaging and computing are used in applying these technologies and scaling them for analysing single plants to an entire ecosystem. Via the HRPPC and with input of plant scientists working in wheat, rice, maize & sugarcane CSIRO is undertaking research projects related to remote sensing and estimation of biomass production and other traits. Robotics scientists are developing autonomous systems (ground and aerial) to apply these sensors in plant science research.
Website: www.csiro.au

Email: scott.chapman@csiro.au

Phone: +61732142254

Address: Queensland Bioscience Precinct, 306 Carmody Rd., St. Lucia QLD 4067, Australia
 
 Dioxide MaterialsRich masel  Small Business Other Energy Technologies CO2 monitoring is an important part of the Terra program, but existing CO2 monitors are too expensive to be used widely in agriculture. Dioxide Materials has developed some very inexpensive CO2 sensors using spin-off technology from an existing ARPA-E program. The sensors are small enough to put on a leaf and be powered by a solar cell. Presently, the sensors are designed to be used within buildings, but they could be adapted for use in field tests. Dioxide Materials would like to be the go-to group for CO2 sensors for the Terra program. We have a good relationship with ARPA-E through our existing ARPA-E program, and our CEO, Professor Rich Masel, is a well know researcher, who is listed in highlycited.com as doing the work that has had some of the most impact since 2000.
Website: http://www.dioxidematerials.com

Email: rich.masel@dioxidematerials.com

Phone: 217.239.1400

Address: 60 Hazelwood Dr, Champaign IL
 
 Cornell UniversityLarry Smart  Academic Bioenergy My lab is actively engaged in breeding, genetics, and genomics of shrub willow as a bioenergy crop. We have worked on a team that included JCVI, JGI and ORNL to sequence the Salix purpurea genome, which is now available on Phytozome. We maintain a large and diverse collection of shrub willow accessions and are currently phenotyping an association panel of Salix purpurea on three sites, as well as an F2 mapping population with 500 progeny. Both of these have been genotyped by GBS. We have used high-resolution thermogravimetric analysis as a tool to characterize wood composition. We think there are tremendous opportunities to employ high-throughput phenotyping together with genomics to leverage the wide phenotypic diversity of Salix in linking phenotype to genotype.
Website: http://willow.cals.cornell.edu

Email: lbs33@cornell.edu

Phone: 3157872490

Address: 630 West North St., Geneva, NY 14456
 
 ArvegenixVijay Chauhan  Small Business Bioenergy Arvegenix LLC is a renewable energy crop development, production and marketing company developing Pennycress as an oilseed crop producing oil for the US renewable fuels (biodiesel and renewable jet fuel) market.

The company has assembled a strong team of executives with experience in startups, agriculture-seed businesses with deep expertise in breeding, genomics, agronomics and crop development R&D, farming systems, business management, sales and marketing of crops to farmers, IP, oilseed and animal feed development experience.

Arvegenix has assembled the largest germplasm collection, sequenced the genome of its collection, begun field based phenotyping-genotyping mapping program to drive its marker assisted breeding program. The company has already completed a complete planting-harvesting-crushing cycle at commercial scale.

The company is executing its crop R&D program in collaboration with the Danforth Plant Sciences Center leveraging its research team and facilities.
Website: www.arvegenix.com

Email: vchauhan@arvegenix.com

Phone: 636-346-8409

Address: 1100 Corporate Square Drive, Ste 254 St. Louis MO 63132
 
 LemnaTec CorporationDr. Edwin Reidel  Small Business Other Energy Technologies LemnaTec’s team of engineers and scientists develops hardware and software solutions for Plant Phenotyping, as well as high-throughput and high-content screening of seedlings, insects and other organisms. LemnaTec’s range of instruments can make measurements in test formats ranging from 96-well plates to field plots, utilizing robotics and sophisticated image processing algorithms to analyze thousands of images daily.
Website: www.lemnatec.com

Email: edwin.reidel@lemnatec.com

Phone: 3609010201

Address: 2303 NE Wasco St
 
 National Institute of Standards and TechnologyDavid Allen  Government Owned and Operated (GOGO) Other Energy Technologies NIST is the United States National Metrology Institute. NIST establishes and maintains scales of physical units (e.g., light, temperature, humidity). The Sensor Science Division (SSD) of NIST excels in enabling research partners in making accurate and repeatable measurements in challenging environments. The SSD is leading efforts to support the emerging use of hyperspectral sensors for a range of applications. This effort includes the implementation of standards for scales of reflectance and radiance, sensor calibration, sensor integration, and data analysis with emphasis on accuracy and SI traceability to internationally recognized units of measurement. Other unique imaging modalities NIST has expertise in includes confocal hyperspectral imaging, optical coherent tomography, photoacoustic tomography, and gas phase sensing LIDAR. As a federal agency, NIST often assumes a supporting role in serving to enable advanced sensing and measurement technology.
Website: http://www.nist.gov/pml/

Email: dwallen@nist.gov

Phone: 301-975-3680

Address: 100 Bureau Drive, Gaithersburg, MD 20899
 
 Benson Hill Biosystems, Inc.Ben Gray  Small Business Other Energy Technologies Benson Hill Biosystems is an agricultural biotechnology company that is focused on increasing crop yield, primarily by manipulating and optimizing photosynthesis. The company has expertise in the integration of phenotypic, biochemical, and molecular data, including large, 'omics-scale datasets, in order to draw meaningful conclusions. Benson Hill can provide the expertise to connect photosynthetic measurements with plant growth and biomass accumulation. A particular focus of the company's research efforts is on optimizing C4 photosynthetic efficiency for improved yield. This focus will be directly applicable to efforts aimed at increasing yield in bioenergy crops including sorghum and perennial C4 grasses.
Website: http://www.bensonhillbio.com

Email: bgray@bensonhillbio.com

Phone: 919-313-6636

Address: PO Box 13487, Research Triangle Park, NC 27709
 
 Big Mountain Robotics, LLCPierre Stoermer  Small Business Other Energy Technologies Big Mountain Robotics, LLC offers a software-as-a-service, URL: dronemapper.com, that generates precision geo-referenced orthomosaics, digital elevation models (DEMs) and 3-D point clouds for precision agriculture and other uses. We have or currently are supporting phenotyping of various research crops with these products which include radiometrically corrected NDVIs. The majority of clients served worldwide utilize UAVs and low-cost sensors for their imagery collects; providing a knowledge base on what works. We have expertise in photogrammetry, GIS, cloud computing, BigData, algorithm development and application specific software/hardware development. We are highly interested in joining a team to respond to the upcoming TERRA solicitation.
Website: dronemapper.com

Email: pierre@dronemapper.com

Phone: 9704171102

Address: 18656 Eastridge Road, Cedaredge, CO 81413
 
 University of North TexasStevens M. Brumbley  Academic Other Energy Technologies Dr. Stevens Brumbley joined the faculty at the University of North Texas (UNT) Department of Biological Sciences as an Associate Professor in January 2011. He has an adjunct appointment in the Department of Material Science and Engineering. He is part of a new research cluster on bioproducts based at UNT. He is also a Principle Research Fellow at the Australian Institute for Bioengineering and Nanotechnology. Dr. Brumbley received a BA in Biology from the University of Oregon in 1985 and a PhD in Plant Pathology at the University of Georgia in 1991. His PhD studies focused on molecular plant-microbe interactions. From 1994 to 2006 Dr. Brumbley was employed by BSES Limited (the R&D arm of the Australian sugarcane industry) in Indooroopilly, Queensland, Australia where he initiated the work on developing sugarcane as a biofactory for production of bioplastics (various polyhydroxyalkanoates) and bioplastic precursors (p-hydroxybenzoic acid or crotonic acid).
Website: http://biol.unt.edu/~brumbley/

Email: sbrumbley@unt.edu

Phone: 940 369 5072

Address: 1155 Union Circle #305220, Department of Biological Sciences, Life Sciences Bldg. A254, Denton, TX 76203-5017
 
 QAAFI, The University of QueenslandProfessor Graeme Hammer  Academic Other Energy Technologies The Queensland Alliance for Agriculture and Food Innovation (QAAFI) is a research institute of The University of Queensland (UQ), Australia. QAAFI incorporates the UQ link to the APSIM (Agricultural Production systems SIMulator) Initiative, which oversees the ongoing development of the APSIM crop and cropping system modelling software platform in conjunction with partners from CSIRO and Qld Government. A particular focus relevant to TERRA has been development of gene-to-phenotype crop modelling capability in sorghum. An advanced model is now available and integrated with phenotyping and plant breeding programs in Australia and elsewhere to help enhance rate of genetic gain for complex traits. This activity is linked with research programs in Europe, USA, India, and Africa. The group involved has advanced technical expertise in plant/crop physiology, crop modelling, breeding, genetics, genomics, bioinformatics, computational systems, data analytics, and phenotyping technologies.
Website: http://www.qaafi.uq.edu.au/

Email: g.hammer@uq.edu.au

Phone: +61 412189757

Address: QAAFI, Queensland Bioscience Precinct, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Qld 4072, Australia
 
 UC BerkeleyAvideh Zakhor  Academic None of the above Video and Image processing Lab at UC Berkeley has been active on mobile mapping, sensors, and robotics platforms for the past 15 years. The 3D outdoor mapping technology developed in this lab from 2000 to 2007 was licensed by Google and used in the 3D Google Earth product. Since 2007, we have developed an ambulatory mobile mapping platform consisting of a suite of sensors for 3D modeling of building interiors, and building energy modeling.

For this project, we plan to (a) design cheap mobile data acquisition platforms made of multi-modal sensors (b) develop automated processing algorithms to extract useful information relevant to genetic improvement of the yield of bioenergy crops.
Website: www-video.eecs.berkeley.edu

Email: avz@eecs.berkeley.edu

Phone: 5103843272

Address: 507 Cory Hall, university of California, Berkeley, CA 94720
 
 University of Illinois at Urbana-ChampaignStephen Moose  Academic Bioenergy Team of plant biologists, geneticists, computational scientists working on improvement of current or potential bioenergy grasses: sorghum, maize, Miscanthus, switchgrass, Setaria. Established infrastructure for advanced phenotyping of field trials, genomic analysis, and data integration.
Website: http://cropsci.illinois.edu/directory/smoose

Email: smoose@illinois.edu

Phone: 217-244-6308

Address: 1201 West Gregory Drive, Urbana, IL 61801
 
 USDA-ARS/Cornell UnivEdward Buckler  Academic Bioenergy The Buckler group is a leader in genomic analysis and the quantitative genetics of complex crop traits. Our group has lead some of the largest public projects to study maize field performance and genetics. We also developed statistical models for the accelerated breeding of crops. We developed genomic profiles for maize, sorghum, switchgrass, and dozens of other species.

Additionally, our group has substantial expertise in working with large genomic datasets, and has experience in software engineering of application and databases. Our most popular genetics software has 8000 users around the globe.

Our group is most interested in collaborating with engineering efforts that will permit the daily field measurement of growth and starch production, so that detailed models of crop adaptation and interactions with environment can be unraveled.
Website: http://www.maizegenetics.net/

Email: esb33@cornell.edu

Phone: 607-255-4520

Address: 159 Biotechnology Bldg, Cornell University
 
Page 1 of 2 (37 items)Prev[1]2Next