Daniel L. Sanchez is an alum­ni of the Ener­gy and Resources Group and the Renew­able and Appro­pri­ate Ener­gy Lab­o­ra­tory at the Uni­ver­sity of Cal­i­for­nia-Berke­ley. He is inter­ested in quan­ti­ta­tive analy­sis to inform pub­lic pol­icy, focus­ing on bioen­ergy and cli­mate pol­icy. His cur­rent research focused design, deploy­ment, and com­mer­cial­iza­tion of bioen­ergy with car­bon cap­ture and seques­tra­tion (BECCS) tech­nolo­gies. Daniel has pre­vi­ously held posi­tions with the Advanced Research Projects Agency-Ener­gy (ARPA‑E), Green for All, and the Cal­i­for­nia Pub­lic Util­i­ties Com­mis­sion. He holds an M.S. in Ener­gy and Resources and a B.S.E. in Chem­i­cal and Bio­mol­e­c­u­lar Engi­neer­ing from the Uni­ver­sity of Pennsylvania.

Dan has been a post-doc­tor­al fel­low at the Carnegie Insti­tu­tion at Stan­ford Uni­ver­si­ty, and is cur­rent­ly a AAAS Fel­low in Wash­ing­ton, DC.  He is inter­est­ed in the deploy­ment and com­mer­cial­iza­tion of tech­nolo­gies that sig­nif­i­cant­ly reduce ener­gy-relat­ed CO2 emis­sions or remove CO2 from the atmos­phere. Daniel’s work and engage­ment spans the aca­d­e­m­ic, non­govern­men­tal, and gov­ern­men­tal sec­tors. He recent­ly com­plet­ed a post­doc­tor­al research fel­low­ship with the Carnegie Insti­tu­tion for Sci­ence work­ing with Drs. Chris Field and Katharine Mach. Daniel has pre­vi­ous­ly held posi­tions with the Advanced Research Projects Agency-Ener­gy (ARPA‑E), Green for All, and the Cal­i­for­nia Pub­lic Util­i­ties Commission.

He holds a Ph.D. and M.S. from the Ener­gy and Resources Group at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Cal­i­for­nia-Berke­ley, and a B.S.E. in Chem­i­cal and Bio­mol­e­c­u­lar Engi­neer­ing from the Uni­ver­si­ty of Pennsylvania.

Cur­ricu­lum Vitae

Pub­li­ca­tions

• Bio­mass enables the tran­si­tion to a car­bon-neg­a­tive pow­er sys­tem across west­ern North America
• Bless­ing, with menace?
• Opti­miz­ing fer­men­ta­tion process mis­cant­hus-to-ethanol biore­fin­ery scale under uncer­tain conditions
• Dairy Bio­gas in Cal­i­for­nia: Cost-Effec­tive Development

Links

• Vox: Can we build pow­er plants that actu­ally take car­bon diox­ide out of the air?
• Fron­tiers in Ecol­ogy and the Envi­ron­ment: Bio­mass could gen­er­ate car­bon-neg­a­tive power
• ERG Blog: Reset­ting the Con­ver­sa­tion on Biofuels