Pete joined UPenn as a Research Assistant Professor in January 2021 and acting PI of the Clean Energy Conversions lab. His research involves techno-economic assessment and lifecycle analysis of technologies spanning both carbon capture, utilization, and storage (CCUS) and engineered carbon dioxide removal (CDR). These analyses inform strategic regional pathways for responsible deployment of carbon management systems. He is also a Senior Decarbonization Engineer with Carbon Direct Inc., where he evaluates new engineered technologies for various clients.
Pete received his B.A. in Chemistry from Miami University in Oxford, Ohio and continued to pursue his doctoral work at Cleveland State University. There, his focus shifted early from wet inorganic chemistry to computational modeling of systems through first principles. After receiving his doctorate in 2014, he joined the Clean Energy Conversions Laboratory, then at Stanford University. There he focused on the modeling of sorbents for post-combustion capture as well as geographic information systems modeling of source-sink relationships in carbon capture and utilization (CCU).