Geoengineering and Carbon Storage and Sequestration with Prof. Klaus Lackner

Klaus Lackner, PhD, is the Ewing Worzel Professor of Geophysics and Chair of Earth and Environmental Engineering at Columbia University, where he is also the Director of the Lenfest Center for Sustainable Energy at the Earth Institute. Lackner earned his Ph.D. in theoretical particle physics, summa cum laude, in 1978 from Heidelberg University, was awarded the Clemm-Haas Prize for outstanding Ph.D. thesis and was named a Fleischmann Fellow at the California Institute of Technology. He was a lead author in the IPCC Report on Carbon Capture and Storage and received the Weapons Recognition of Excellence Award in 1991. In 2001, Lackner joined Columbia University; his current research interests include carbon capture and sequestration, air capture, energy systems and scaling, energy and environmental policy, lifecycle analysis, and zero emission modeling for coal and cement plants. Alliance Program Events