S. Julio Friedmann
Julio received his B.S and M.S. degrees from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology , followed by a Ph.D. at the University of Southern California. After graduation, he worked for five years as a senior research scientist in Houston, first at Exxon and later ExxonMobil. He next worked as a research scientist at the University of Maryland, collaborating with the Joint Global Change Research Institute at the University of Maryland, and the Colorado Energy Research Institute at Colorado School of Mines. In his current appointment as Carbon Management Program Leader for Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, he leads initiatives and research into carbon capture, carbon storage, and fossil fuel recovery and utilization. In this role, he has submitted Congressional testimony for the U.S. Senate and California and Wisconsin State Assemblies and testified before the House Energy and Commerce Committee.
Published in Foreign Affairs and the New York Times, he has worked with the EPA, USGS, private companies and NGOs, and the Department of Energy. He is a primary co-author on the MIT Report, "Future of Coal Energy," the National Petroleum Council report, "Facing Hard Truths," and the World Resources Institute report, "CCS Guidelines". His research interests include carbon sequestration, underground coal gasification, hydrocarbon systems, deep-water depositional systems, basin and range tectonics and sedimentation, sequence stratigraphy, and landslide physics. A native of Rhode Island, he has worked in California, Washington, Utah, Wyoming, Colorado, Spain, Ireland, the North Sea, Nigeria, Angola, Venezuela, Azerbaijan, and Australia.
