Dr. Nathan Weiland has been a Senior Fellow at the National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL) since 2020, where he works to build and sustain world-class research and development competencies in energy conversion engineering and hydrogen production, transport, storage & utilization.  This work supports the Office of Fossil Energy’s Advanced Energy Systems’ programs in Turbines, Supercritical CO₂ (sCO­₂) Power Cycles, Gasification, Reversible Solid Oxide Cells, Advanced Materials, Simulation Based Engineering, and Sensors & Controls, in addition to supporting the Oil, Gas & Critical Mineral’s program in Natural Gas and Hydrogen Technologies.  Dr. Weiland currently leads the National Laboratory Gasification Consortium, as well as NETL’s efforts to engage industry and other DOE Offices in hydrogen and energy conversion research, development and deployment.

From 2014 to 2020 Dr. Weiland was a research engineer in NETL’s System Engineering and Analysis Directorate - Energy Process Analysis Team, where his work focused on development and economic optimization of novel sCO₂ power cycles and oxy-fuel direct power extraction (DPE) power cycles to help meet our national and global needs for higher efficiency, lower cost, and environmentally responsible electric power generation with fossil fuels.  Dr. Weiland’s prior work with NETL as a postdoctoral student (2005-2008) and a West Virginia University Research Assistant Professor (2008-2014) included low-NOx hydrogen combustion, coal/biomass co-pyrolysis and co-gasification, ash deposition processes in gasification systems, oxy-combustion thermal plasmas for DPE applications, and chemical looping combustion kinetics. He received his B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Purdue University in 1997, and his M.S. and Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from Georgia Tech in 2000 and 2004, respectively.