Klaus Lackner

Klaus is known as the "Father of Direct Air Capture", and has been advising the world's governments and large corporations on carbon capture for decades.

Klaus is Director of the Center for Negative Carbon Emissions and a professor at the School of Sustainable Engineering and the Built Environment at Arizona State University.

Klaus is the inventor of the air capture technology that Aircela uses, and has been overseeing the prototyping of carbon capture devices since helping his daughter win her eighth-grade science project in 2006.