Scott Quillinan is the Senior Director of Research at the School of Energy Resources, University of Wyoming. Quillinan has been with the School of Energy Resources since 2012 and has held various leadership roles, including Director of the Center for Economic Geology Research, Director of Operations, and Senior Research Scientist. In his current role he is responsible for increasing campus-wide faculty engagement in energy research activities, organizing interdisciplinary teams on research topics, managing and maintaining a diversified sponsored research portfolio, administering private and state funded research programs focused on energy.

With 15 years of experience, Scott has broad experience is subsurface R&D in university research, energy consultancy and with a geologic survey. Scott holds a B.S. and M.S. degree in Geology from the University of Wyoming and is a licensed professional geologist. Scott focuses his research interests on the energy transition and thoughtful approaches to decarbonize fossil fuel energy systems where he has secured and managed over $60M in research contracts over his professional career ranging from small seed funding to large-scale field demonstration projects through the Department of Energy. Scott’s current programs include Wyoming CarbonSAFE (a commercial-scale CO2 geologic storage project at a coal-fired power plant), exploration and production of rare earth elements and critical materials, and identifying low-carbon approaches to traditional energy resource development in the U.S and China. Scott co-chaired the Center of Advanced Energy Studies’-Innovative Energy Systems Work Group housed at Idaho National Laboratories, is Wyoming’s Chair for the Intermountain West Energy Sustainability & Transitions (I-WEST) housed at Los Alamos National Laboratory, and is a faculty member for the Department of Energy Program-Research Experience in Carbon Storage.