Josh Schaidle is a Distinguished Member of the Research Staff at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) and also serves as NREL’s lab program manager for the Office of Fossil Energy and Carbon Management. Josh received his B.S. in Chemical Engineering from the University of California-Santa Barbara in 2006, his Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Michigan in 2011, with a concentration in environmental sustainability, and his Distinguished Leadership Certificate from the Ross Business School at the University of Michigan in 2020. He seeks to build and empower diverse, multi-disciplinary teams to accelerate technology development. His dream is to create a future in which the quality of life for each and every person is no longer a compromise between sustainability and affordability.