I am a Senior Scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, Deputy Director for Research of the Energy Analysis & Environmental Impacts Division and also serve as leader of the Life-cycle, Economics, and Agronomy Division (LEAD) at the Joint BioEnergy Institute (JBEI). I run a group of ~20 wonderful, creative people ranging from student interns to doctoral students, postdocs, and career scientists. They go on to work in academia, industry, the national lab system, and government. My JBEI team’s website can be found here. I am also appointed at UC Berkeley as Head of Sustainability Analysis at the Energy Biosciences Institute. My current work focuses on the life-cycle assessment and technoeconomic analysis of producing advanced biofuels and bioproducts, national-scale fine-resolution scenario modeling of biofuel/bioproduct scale-up strategies and bioenergy crop production, and vehicle electrification across the U.S.
I received a Ph.D. in Civil Engineering from UC Berkeley in December 2010. My dissertation title is “Life-Cycle Water Impacts of U.S. Transportation Fuels” and the full text can be accessed here. I also completed an M.S. at UC Berkeley in May 2008 in Civil Engineering, and a B.S. in Civil Engineering with a double major in Engineering and Public Policy (EPP) at Carnegie Mellon University in December 2006.
Contact Info:
Email: cdscown@lbl.gov
Curriculum Vitae (PDF): Scown_CV
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