Biography
Dr. Arun Majumdar is the inaugural Dean of the Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability. He is the Jay Precourt Provostial Chair Professor at Stanford University, a faculty member of the Departments of Mechanical Engineering and Energy Science and Engineering, a Senior Fellow and former Director of the Precourt Institute for Energy and Senior Fellow (courtesy) of the Hoover Institution. He is also on faculty in the Department of Photon Science at SLAC.
Dr. Majumdar served in the Obama administration as the Founding Director of the Advanced Research Projects Agency – Energy (ARPA-E) and as the Acting Under Secretary of Energy. He also served as a Science Envoy for the US Department of State and as the Chair of the US Secretary of Energy Advisory Board.
Dr. Majumdar was the Vice President for Energy at Google and advises numerous businesses in the energy innovation ecosystem. He is a member of the US National Academy of Sciences, US National Academy of Engineering and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Dr. Majumdar received his bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay in 1985 and his Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley in 1989.
