Peter Psarras, PhD

Dr. Psarras received his PhD in Chemistry from Cleveland State University in 2014 where he worked on computational modeling of catalysts used in Fischer-Tropsch synthetic fuel processing.

He subsequently held postdoctoral appointments at Stanford University and The Colorado School of Mines in the area of techno-economic, life-cycle, and geospatial assessments of engineered carbon management solutions. His work since has focused mainly on climate change mitigation, mainly carbon capture, utilization, and – more recently – atmospheric carbon removal via direct air capture and carbon mineralization.

Since January 2021, Dr. Psarras has held a joint appointment in the Kleinman Center for Energy Policy and Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at The University of Pennsylvania at the level of Assistant Research Professor.