The Energy Institute’s Faculty Advisory Council (FAC) serves as an advisory body to the EI, guiding its activities toward providing high-value support to the work done by the campus energy-research community. FAC includes faculty members and research scientists from across UT’s diverse energy research portfolio to form a multi-disciplinary and representative council. FAC members play a critical role for EI by serving as the main link between the EI and their respective Schools/Departments for the bi-directional flow of information, serving as a trusted sounding board for feedback on research projects and coordination, outreach and events strategy, and other EI activities. With these objectives, the FAC plays an important role in guiding the execution of EI’s activities.
Currently, the FAC consists of the following members:
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David Adelman, Harry Reasoner Regents Chair in Law (Law School) |
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John Butler, Program Director for M.S. Finance and Associate Director of Energy Management and Innovation Center (McCombs School of Business) |
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Richard Chuchla, Leslie Bowling Professor in Geological Sciences and Program Director, Energy and Earth Resources Graduate Program (Jackson School of Geosciences) |
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Arumugam “Ram” Manthiram, Cockrell Family Regents Chair in Engineering # 5 (Cockrell School of Engineering) |
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Michael Marder, Professor of Physics and Executive Director – UTeach (College of Natural Sciences) |
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Art Markman, Annabel Irion Worsham Centennial Professor and Director of IC2 Institute (College of Liberal Arts) |
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Sheila Olmstead, Professor of Public Affairs (LBJ School of Public Affairs) |
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Bridget Scanlon, Senior Research Scientist, Bureau of Economic Geology (Jackson School of Geosciences) |