Industrial Production

Dr. Rick Duke is a consultant and Brookings senior fellow. He served as Special Assistant to President Obama, helping to craft and implement the Climate Action Plan, including defining the 2025 emissions reduction target for the Paris Agreement, negotiating the Kigali Amendment on HFCs to the Montreal Protocol, and authoring the U.S. Mid-Century Strategy for deep decarbonization.

Dr. Anne M. Gaffney is the Chief Science Officer of the Energy, Environment, Science and Technology Directorate of the Idaho National Laboratory (INL) and a Distinguished Laboratory Fellow. She has a joint appointment with the University of South Carolina where she is the Technical Director of the National Science Foundation Center for Rational Catalyst Synthesis.

Dr. Elsa Olivetti is the Atlantic Richfield Associate Professor of Energy Studies in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering. Her research focuses on improving the environmental and economic sustainability of materials using methods informed by materials economics, machine learning, and techno-economic analysis.

Abigail Regitsky is a AAAS Congressional Science Fellow sponsored by the American Physical Society (APS). She works in the Office of Senator Tina Smith on energy and environment policy, where she has helped to craft legislation on a national clean energy standard.

Michele Bustamante joined the AAAS Science & Technology Policy Fellowship program as a Congressional fellow sponsored by the Minerals, Metals, & Materials Society and the Materials Research Society (TMS/MRS). Michele is spending her fellowship year in the office of Senator Edward J. Markey of Massachusetts.