Arun Majumdar

Arun Majumdar is a materials scientist, engineer, and Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay graduate who was President Barack Obamas nominee for the Under Secretary of Energy between November 30, 2011 and May 15, 2012He formerly ran the Environmental Energy Technologies Division at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, where he was also deputy director of LBNL as well as professor of mechanical engineering at the University of California, Berkeley He was nominated to be the first director of the US Department of Energys Advanced Research Projects AgencyEnergy (ARPAE) and appointed to that position in September 2009 On May 15, 2012, the White House withdrew Majumdars nominationOn Dec 17, 2012, Google announced that Arun joined Google to drive Googleorgs energy initiatives and advise the company on their broader energy strategy Arun is a leading scientist in the fields of thermoelectric materials, heat and mass transfer, thermal management, and waste heat recovery He has published several hundred papers, patents, and conference proceedings, and is a member of the National Academy of Engineering On August 16, 2012, Arun Majumdar copublished a paper in Nature with United States Secretary of Energy Steven Chu on Opportunities and Challenges for a Sustainable Energy Future, as well as gave a talk on the paper on the subject at Stanford University