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S. Julio Friedmann, Ph.D.

Carbon Sequestration

Julio Friedmann received his B.S. and M.S. degrees from M.I.T., followed by a Ph.D. from the University of Southern California. Dr. Friedmann began his career as a research scientist at both Exxon and ExxonMobil. He continued his research while affiliated with the Joint Global Change Research Institute (JGCRI) at the University of Maryland, and the Colorado Energy Research Institute at Colorado School of Mines. In his current appointment as Carbon Management Program Leader for Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, he leads initiatives and research into carbon capture, carbon storage, and fossil fuel recovery and utilization. In this role, he has submitted Congressional testimony for the U.S. Senate and California and Wisconsin State Assemblies and testified before the House Energy and Commerce Committee. Published in Foreign Affairs and the New York Times, he has worked with the EPA, USGS, numerous private companies, many NGOs and the Department of Energy. He was invited by MIT to joint their team on the Future of Coal Energy Report and helped assemble the National Petroleum Council Report on the future of oil and gas in the US. His research interests include carbon sequestration, underground coal gasification, hydrocarbon systems, deep-water depositional systems, basin & range tectonics and sedimentation, sequence stratigraphy, and landslide physics.