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A search has begun for a director of the University's Future Fuels TM initiative, which will coordinate all of the institution's energy-related research.
The director of Future FuelsTM will work with industry, particularly companies that might locate in Innovista, and will seek new funding opportunities and plan for strategic hiring, said John Weidner, interim associate dean for research in the College of Engineering and Information Technology and chair of the search committee.
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"We're looking for someone with strong scientific credentials, either an academic researcher or someone who has worked in industry running a research center," Weidner said.
The committee hopes to have identified finalist candidates for an appointment to be made by the end of the year. John Van Zee, director of the National Science Foundation Center for Fuel Cells, is interim director of Future FuelsTM.
In addition to Weidner, search committee members are Michael Amiridis, dean of the College of Engineering and Information Technology; Davis Baird, dean of the Honors College; Rose Booze, associate vice president for research; Tony Boccanfuso, USC Research Foundation; Peter Finamore, John Deere Corp.; Michael Matthews, chair of chemical engineering; Ken Reifsnider, mechanical engineering; Joette Sonnenburg, Savannah River National Laboratory; Tom Vogt, Carolina NanoCenter; Doug Woodward, Moore School of Business research division; and Chris Zorn, political science.
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