John Hamling is Assistant Vice President for Strategic Partnerships at the EERC, where he works to catalyze and implement pioneering solutions that facilitate the prudent development and use of low-carbon and fossil energy. Mr. Hamling serves as a development lead and advisor for screening, characterization, qualification, design, permitting, incentive program compliance, installation, and monitoring aspects multiple geologic CO2 storage projects ranging in scale from 10,000 to over 18,000,000 tonnes per year. Mr. Hamling also serves as an advisor and development lead for several EOR pilots in both conventional and unconventional fields.

Mr. Hamling has over 15 years of experience in oil and gas and CCS. He holds a B.S. degree in Mechanical Engineering and an M.S. degree in Petroleum Engineering from the University of North Dakota (UND). Mr. Hamling is an adjunct lecturer in the Department of Petroleum Engineering at UND and a board member for the Williston Basin Society of Petroleum Engineers since 2012.

Mike Fowler is Director, Advanced Energy Technology Research at CATF, where he is responsible for exploring new technologies and related commercial landscapes, facilitating awareness of new technology options with key stakeholders such as vendors, customers, finance, public officials, and advocates, and identifying catalytic commercial and policy actions that could be useful in moving key technologies forward. He has spent most of the last two decades evaluating costs and advancing the benefits of clean energy and environmental systems, including providing support for project investment evaluations, providing testimony in state and federal regulatory and permit proceedings, and working with developers to unlock hidden value in their products.

Mike began his career at Harvard in atmospheric physics research before moving into air quality consulting and regulatory agency roles including Best Available Control Technology review for the State of New Mexico. From 2007 to 2012 Mike was Director, Advanced Technology for CATF. Most recently he spent five years with Mitsubishi Heavy Industries working to advance carbon capture and battery energy storage projects. In addition to his work for CATF Mike is an advisor to the Energy Options Network.

Mike holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Physics from Harvard University, a Master of Science degree in Aerospace Engineering from the University of Colorado at Boulder, and a Master of Engineering degree in Nuclear Engineering from Pennsylvania State University.

Mark Ackiewicz is the Director for the Office of Carbon Management Technologies at the Department of Energy's Office of Fossil Energy & Carbon Management (DOE-FECM).  He is responsible for planning, management, and administration of the division’s $200 million annual budget and its portfolio of R&D activities.  In this role, he leads a team of scientists and engineers that are collaborating and working with industry, national laboratories, and universities on developing advanced and transformational technologies to enhance energy security and reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions.

Mark also serves as technical lead on several of the Department’s international R&D collaboration efforts, such as the Carbon Sequestration Leadership Forum (CSLF) and the Executive Committee for the International Energy Agency Greenhouse Gas (IEAGHG) R&D Programme. Under his leadership, he has led several multinational task forces and worked cooperatively with partners in standing up the International Carbon Capture Test Center Network.

Prior to his current position, Mr. Ackiewicz also served as DOE’s Carbon Capture Program Manager and Fuels Program Manager. Before joining DOE in 2007, he worked as a consultant, providing technical, analytical, and strategic planning services to the DOE and its technical research programs.  Early in his career, Mark worked in the private sector in various industrial research and engineering positions, where he was responsible for process development and new product scale-up to manufacturing. 

Mark has a B.S. in Chemical Engineering from Johns Hopkins University, and a Master’s in Engineering Management from George Washington University. He is married and has two children.

Dr. Emily Grubert is the Deputy Assistant Secretary for the Office of Carbon Management in the Office of Fossil Energy and Carbon Management (FECM). In this role, she oversees FECM’s Carbon Management program, which focuses on minimizing the climate and environmental impacts of fossil energy through technology pathways including carbon capture, carbon dioxide (CO₂) removal, CO₂ conversion into products, reliable CO₂ storage, and hydrogen production with carbon management.

Dr. Grubert is a civil engineer and environmental sociologist who studies and informs decision making regarding infrastructure systems, particularly related to justice-centering decarbonization of the U.S. energy system. Her expertise includes studying life cycle socioenvironmental impacts associated with future policy and infrastructure.

Dr. Grubert is an Assistant Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering and, by courtesy, of Public Policy at the Georgia Institute of Technology. She holds a Ph.D. in Environment and Resources from Stanford, an M.S. in Environmental and Water Resources Engineering and an M.A. in Energy and Earth Resources from UT Austin and a B.S. in Mathematics and Atmosphere/Energy Engineering from Stanford.