SPEAKERS

Plenary Speakers

	HARRY ATWATER Director, Joint Center for Artificial Photosynthesis Editor in Chief, ACS Photonics Howard Hughes Professor and Professor of Applied Physics and Materials Science California Institute of Technology "Artificial Photosynthesis - The Selective CO2 Reduction Challenge"
	JENNIFER BURNEY Assistant Professor, School of Global Policy and Strategy University of California, San Diego "Energy and Food Security in the Developing World"
	EMILY CARTER Dean, School of Engineering and Applied Sciences Gerhard R. Andlinger Professor in Energy and the Environment Princeton University "At Last: Understanding Photoelectrocatalytic Reduction of CO₂"
	BERNARD DAVID Chairman, CO₂ Sciences, Inc. (Public Outreach Lecture) "Reframing CO2 from a liability into an asset - Creating CO-2 based Products"
	PETRA FROMME Professor and Director, The Biodesign Institute, Applied Structural Discovery Arizona State University "Time Resolved Femtosecond Crystallography of Light-driven Reactions"
	SUSAN GOLDEN HHMI Professor Chancellor’s Associates Chair (III) in Molecular Biology Director, Center for Circadian Biology Distinguished Professor University of California, San Diego "Development of Cyanobacteria as Photosynthetic Bioproduction Platforms"
	LEIF HAMMARSTRÖM Professor of Chemical Physics, Photochemistry and Molecular Science Uppsala Universitet "Molecular approaches to solar fuels"
	SHARON HAMMES-SCHIFFER Swanlund Professor of Chemistry University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign "Proton-Coupled Electron Transfer in Solar Energy Conversion"
	MICH HEIN Managing Partner, Nidus Partnership CEO, Electrochaea, LLC "Charging the gas grid with solar and wind energy - from the "fat duck" to green gas"
	JENS NØRSKOV Leland T. Edwards Professor of Engineering Professor of Chemical Engineering and Photon Science Director of SUNCAT Stanford University "Understanding activity and selectivity trends in electrochemical CO₂ reduction"
	MATTHEW POSEWITZ Associate Professor, Department of Chemistry and Geochemistry Colorado School of Mines "Photosynthesis and Metabolic Engineering in Euryhaline Photoautotrophs"
	BLAKE SIMMONS Chief Science & Technology Officer Vice President for Deconstruction Joint BioEnergy Institute "Driving the Future: the Development of Advanced Biofuels at the Joint BioEnergy Institute"

*Session Speakers*
	SHOTA ATSUMI Associate Professor, Department of Chemistry University of California, Davis "Global metabolic rewiring for the improvement of CO2 fixation and chemical production in cyanobacteria"
	SHAUN BAILEY Principal Scientist Synthetic Genomics "Manipulating algae for improved biomass and lipid productivity" DICK CO Research Professor, Northwestern University Managing Director, Solar Fuels Institute (SOFI) "Ask Not What Solar Fuels Can Do For You - Ask What You Can Do For Solar Fuels" XILE HU Director, Laboratory of Inorganic Synthesis and Catalysis Institute of Chemical Sciences and Engineering at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) "Nickel- and Iron-Contaning Oxides as Oxygen Evolution Catalysts"
	OSAMU ISHITANI Professor, Department of Chemistry Graduate School of Science Tokyo Institute of Technology "Photocatalytic reduction of low concentration of CO2"
	PETER LINDBLAD Microbial Chemistry Dean of Collaboration Uppsala Universitet "Design and construction of photosynthetic microorganisms (cyanobacteria) for direct solar fuels production"
	SMARANDA MARINESCU Gabilan Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry University of Southern California "Electrocatalytic Metal-Organic Frameworks for Solar Energy Conversion" HANNAH SHAFAAT Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry The Ohio State University "Model Nickel Enzymes for Photogenerated Fuels"
	WENDY SHAW Manager, Physical & Computational Sciences Pacific Northwest National Laboratory "The effect of an outer coordination sphere on catalysts for H2 oxidation and CO2 reduction"
	STENBJÖRN STYRING Professor, Photochemistry and Molecular Science Department of Chemistry-Ångström Laboratory Uppsala Universitet "Manipulation of green algae and cyanobacteria for solar hydrogen" MAKOTO WATANABE Professor Algae Biomass and Energy System R&D Center University of Tsukuba "Native Algal Polyculture for Biofuel Production"

JIANPING YU

Scientist and Manager

National Renewable Energy Laboratory

"Co-production of ethylene and guanidine from cyanobacterial photosynthesis and nitrogen fixation"