William Tumas
Laboratory Director
Chemistry
National Renewable Energy Laboratory
United States of America
Biography
Tumas is also the Director of the Center for Next Generation of Materials by Design Energy Frontier Research Center and was the director of the Center for Inverse Design EFRC. He also serves as the NREL laboratory point of contact for Office of Science, Basic Energy Sciences, responsible for sponsor interface, program management, and program execution. He joined NREL in December 2009 as Director of the Chemical and Materials Science Center at NREL.
Research Interest
solar energy conversion for electricity and fuels, materials discovery and development for renewable energy technologies, hydrogen production and storage, and fuel cells.