Sameer Parvathikar

Sameer Parvathikar is Senior Director of Sustainable Energy Solutions and Program Director of the RTI Pilot Xcelerator, a plug-and-play demonstration facility for energy and industrial process technologies. He leads several U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) and commercially funded projects and programs on green chemicals production and grid-scale energy storage.

As the principal investigator of the DOE Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy’s (ARPA-E) REFUEL+IT program, Dr. Parvathikar leads a large team consisting of university, non-profit, and industry collaborators in building a pilot-scale clean energy and chemicals hub to produce low- and zero-carbon hydrogen and ammonia from intermittent renewable energy that will demonstrate their use as a fuel and fertilizer. This program builds on a successful early-stage development of innovative materials and processes that was led by Dr. Parvathikar. He also leads DOE-funded efforts to develop thermochemical energy storage for concentrated solar power. Dr. Parvathikar’s portfolio includes several other areas, including distributed and renewable gas-to-chemicals technologies and technology assessments, and clean-up technologies for syngas derived from waste and fossil fuel feedstocks.

Dr. Parvathikar previously worked for Praxair, Inc. (now Linde) in their H2/CO R&D group, where he worked on novel process designs for syngas and hydrogen production, purification, and cryogenic syngas separation.