Roger D. Aines, Ph.D
Senior Advisor for Carbon Dioxide Removal
DOE Office of the Under Secretary for Energy and Innovation
Energy Program Chief Scientist
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Global Security Principal Directorate
Contact 925-423-7184
aines1 [at] llnl.gov (aines1[at]llnl[dot]gov)
EDUCATION AND PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Ph.D., Geochemistry, California Institute of Technology (1984)
B.A., Chemistry, Carleton College (1978)
LLNL: Energy Program Chief Scientist (2018-present), Carbon Management Program Leader (2010-2018), NARAC Chief Technical Officer, Risk and Assessment (2008-2008), Environmental Science Division Leader (2003-2006)
Technical Career: Nuclear waste storage, groundwater cleanup, and stochastic modeling. Leads the Carbon Initiative; twenty-two patents in the areas of carbon capture and environmental cleanup and has over eighty publications.
PROFESSIONAL INTERESTS
Roger Aines is the Senior Advisor for Carbon Dioxide Removal in the DOE Office of the Under Secretary for Energy and Innovation. He provides oversight and assistance with all aspects of the Carbon Negative initiative, including providing technical advice and guidance to the Under Secretary program portfolio to support the advancement of technologies to reduce carbon emissions and other environmental impacts of fossil fuel production and use, particularly the hardest-to-decarbonize applications in the electricity and industrial sectors. He is on detail from his position as Energy Program Chief Scientist at Lawrence Livermore Laboratory, which conducts government and private sector research in clean energy technology.
Roger developed and led the Carbon Initiative at LLNL, which aims to understand, develop, and implement technologies for the removal of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, so-called negative emissions technologies. He has been at LLNL since 1984 working on nuclear waste disposal, environmental remediation, application of stochastic methods to inversion and data fusion, management of carbon emissions including separation technology, and monitoring and verification methods for sequestration. He holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Chemistry from Carleton College, and Doctor of Philosophy in geochemistry from the California Institute of Technology.
