November 25, 2024
Melissa Pappas
The 2024 TIME100 Climate list has selected Vanessa Chan, Jonathan and Linda Brassington Practice Professor in Materials Science and Engineering, in the Leader category. Chan, who is currently on leave from Penn Engineering, is serving as the Chief Commercialization Officer and the Director of the Office of Technology Transitions at the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE). Since joining DOE in January 2021, Chan has helped drive the agency’s, including its 17 National Labs, ’policies and programs to commercialize clean technologies developed by both the public and the private sectors. Read more.