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July 7, 2025 - July 8, 2025 • 6:00 pm edt

Third Annual Energy Opportunity Forum

This year, the Third Annual Energy Opportunity Lab (EOL) Forum will take place July 7th and 8th in Washington, DC, offering a chance for the Washington policymaking community...

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Third Annual Energy Opportunity Forum

Ah-Hyung (Alissa) Park

Director, Lenfest Center for Sustainable Energy, Department of Earth and Environmental Engineering

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Professor Park is the Lenfest Chair in Applied Climate Science at Columbia University and is also the Director of the Lenfest Center for Sustainable Energy, where she researches issues in energy, environmental engineering and particle technology.  Park has received numerous honors and distinctions throughout her career as a researcher.  Recently she has been appointed as a member of the International Committee at the American Institute of Chemical Engineers, where she has also been elected as the Vice-Chair (2009-2011) and Chair (2011-2013) of the Fluidization and Fluid-Particle Systems Group and Treasurer (2010-present) of the Particle Technology Forum.  She has also recently received the James Lee Young Investigator Award, the NSF Career Award, and a nomination for the Packard Fellowship.  In 2011, she was the distinguished speaker at the Womensphere Emerging Leaders Global Summit.  A more complete list of her many accomplishments can be found on her website.

A graduate of the University of British Columbia, Professor Park received a Bachelor of Applied Science with distinction and a Masters of Applied Science, both in Chemical and Biological Engineering. She received a PhD degree in Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering from the Ohio State University.
 

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