Leadership & Staff
Director, Clean Energy Institute
Boeing-Sutter Professor of Chemical Engineering
Chief Scientist, Clean Energy Institute
B. Seymour Rabinovitch Endowed Chair in Chemistry
Director, IMOD (NSF Center for Integration of Modern Optoelectronic Materials on Demand)
Washington Research Foundation Distinguished Scholar
Technical Director, Washington Clean Energy Testbeds
Washington Research Foundation Associate Professor of Clean Energy, Materials Science and Engineering, Mechanical Engineering
Managing Director, Washington Clean Energy Testbeds
mpomfret@uw.edu | 206-685-6833
Trainee & Faculty Advisory Board
David Ginger
TFAB Chair
Chief Scientist, Clean Energy Institute
B. Seymour Rabinovitch Endowed Chair in Chemistry
Director, IMOD (NSF Center for Integration of Modern Optoelectronic Materials on Demand)
Washington Research Foundation Distinguished Scholar

Technical Director, Washington Clean Energy Testbeds
Washington Research Foundation Associate Professor of Clean Energy, Materials Science & Engineering, Mechanical Engineering
WRF Innovation Assistant Professor of Chemistry and Clean Energy

Rattie Endowed Career Development Professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering
Advisory & Tech Councils
CEI’s Advisory Councils include clean energy leaders from industry, government, and nonprofit organizations.
Tech Council
- David Benson, Co-Founder and Managing Director, Bia Energy Capital
- Susan Betcher, Partner and Firmwide Co-Chair of Clean Technology Practice, Perkins Coie LLP
- Katy Briggs, Global Service Area Leader, Renewables Advisory, DNV GL – Energy
- Jeff Canin, Board Member & Fund Manager, E8 Angels
- Byron Crawford, Power Business Development Lead, HDR, Inc.
- Dave Curry, Chairman, CarbonQuest and NextWatts
- Renee Gastineau, Business Solutions Director, ENGIE Impact (retired)
- Craig Husa, Director, Lockheed Martin Energy
- Jun Liu, WRF Innovation Chair in Clean Energy and Campbell Chair Professor, Materials Science & Engineering and Chemical Engineering, UW
- Rick Luebbe, CEO & Co-Founder, Group14 Technologies
- Daniel Malarkey, Senior Fellow, Sightline Institute
- Uzma Siddiqi, Technology Principal Engineer, Seattle City Light — co-chair
- Ben Straughan, Partner, Emerging Companies & Venture Capital, Perkins Coie LLP
- Lawrence Tsang, Senior Vice President, Corporate Development, Convergent Energy + Power — co-chair
- Malcolm Witter, Director, Dean Witter Foundation