Description: The Energy for Sustainability Program is one of seventeen programs in the Division of Chemical, Biotechnology, Environmental and Transport (CBET) Systems of the Directorate for Engineering (ENG) in the National Science Foundation. This program is one of four programs in the Environmental Engineering and Sustainability Cluster. It is the newest program in the CBET Division, created in 2006, with the mission of funding long-term, basic and fundamental research and education that will have major impacts on the generation, conversion and storage of environmentally friendly and renewable energy. I will share some of my vision in this area and present additional information such as research areas of interest to the program and examples of recent awards.

Biography: Trung Van Nguyen was elected to be the first Director for the Energy for Sustainability program at NSF and started his position in June 2007. Concurrently, he also holds the title of Professor of Chemical & Petroleum Engineering at the University of Kansas. He has a BS from NCSU and MS and PhD from TAMU, all in Chemical Engineering. Prior to joining the faculty at the University of Kansas, he was a Postdoctoral Fellow at Los Alamos National Lab, Senior Product & Process Development Engineer at Duracell, and Member of Technical Staff at Bell Labs. His research is on transport and interfacial phenomena in fuel cells and batteries and mathematical modeling of electrochemical systems.