Leadership & Advisors

Aditya Mohite
Faculty Director, Rice Engineering Initiative for Energy Transition and Sustainability (REINVENTS); William M. Rice Trustee Professor, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering; Professor, Materials Science and NanoEngineering, Electrical & Computer Engineering, and Chemistry

Pulickel Ajayan
Benjamin M. and Mary Greenwood Anderson Professor of Engineering; Chair, Department of Materials Science and NanoEngineering

Pedro Alvarez
George R. Brown Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering; Director, NEWT Center

Naomi Halas
University Professor; Director, Smalley-Curl Institute; Director, Laboratory for Nanophotonics
External Advisory Committee

Hunter Armistead '90
Executive Vice President of Business Development, Pattern Energy Group, Inc.; Chair of Engineering Advisory Board Energy Transition Committee

Edan Lee '90
Managing Director, Olympus Capital Asia

Cassandra McZeal '98
Senior Change Advisor, ExxonMobil

Mark Menke '77
Former General Manager, Mergers and Acquisitions, Chevron Corporation

Tom Pellette '86
President of Solar Turbines

Chris Powers '02
Vice President, Carbon Capture, Utilization and Storage, Chevron Corporation

Charlos Ward ’98, ’06
Solutions Delivery Manager, Americas, BP