Arun Majumdar

Arunava "Arun" Majumdar is a materials scientist, engineer, and professor who was nominated for the position of Under Secretary of Energy between November 30, 2011 and May 15, 2012 but then the nomination was retracted.[1][2] He was previously the Director of the Environmental Energy Technologies Division at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, where he was also deputy director of LBNL as well as professor of mechanical engineering at the University of California, Berkeley. He was nominated[3] to be the first director of the U.S. Department of Energy's Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) and appointed to that position in September 2009.

Arun Majumdar
Acting Under Secretary of Energy
In office March 2011 – June 2012
President	Barack Obama
Preceded by	Kristina M. Johnson
Succeeded by	David B. Sandalow (Acting)
Director of Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy
In office September 2009 – June 2012
President	Barack Obama
Preceded by	Position established
Succeeded by	Cheryl Martin (acting)
Personal details
Political party	Democratic
Education	Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay (BS) University of California, Berkeley (MS, PhD)

In 2012, he joined Google to drive Google.org's energy initiatives and advise the company on their broader energy strategy.[4] He is now the Jay Precourt Professor at Stanford University, where he serves on the faculty of the Department of Mechanical Engineering and is a Senior Fellow of the Precourt Institute for Energy.[5]

He completed his PhD at University of California, Berkeley after a bachelor's at Indian Institute of Technology Bombay. His scientific work is in the fields of thermoelectric materials, heat and mass transfer, thermal management, and waste heat recovery. He has published several hundred papers, patents, and conference proceedings,[6] and is a member of the National Academy of Engineering. He served as one of the Science Envoys of the US in 2014.

In November 2020, Majumdar was named a volunteer member of the Joe Biden presidential transition Agency Review Team to support transition efforts related to the United States Department of Energy, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, and the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.[7]