Brian Korgel

Brian A. Korgel is the Director of The University of Texas Austin Energy Institute and the Rashid Engineering Regents Chair in the McKetta Department of Chemical Engineering. He also directs the Industry/University Cooperative Research Center for a Solar Powered Future and is on the Texas Hydrogen Production Policy Council. He is a former Fulbright Fellow. He received his PhD in Chemical Engineering from UCLA in 1997 and was a post-doctoral fellow at University College Dublin. He has given over 320 invited talks and published more than 300 papers. He is also an artist, exploring language and human/technology cohabitation. He has co-founded two companies, Innovalight and Piñon Technologies, and received various honors including being named a member of the National Academy of Engineering.