Ellen Stechel

Executive Director, Center for an Arizona Carbon-Neutral Economy (AzCaNE) and Co-Director ASU LightWorks. She is also a Professor of Practice in the School of Molecular Sciences and Graduate Faculty in Chemical Engineering and in the School of Sustainability, and a Senior Futures Scientist in the Julie Ann Wrigley Global Futures Laboratory at Arizona State University. Her career has afforded her opportunities to build and/or coordinate research programs at Sandia National Laboratories, in industry, at a U.S. government agency, and now in higher education at ASU; in basic and applied research and in policy and commercialization of emerging technologies.