Biography
Appointed by Governor Brown February 2013, Reappointed by Governor Brown January 2016. Janea A. Scott is one of five Commissioners on the California Energy Commission. The Energy Commission is the State's primary energy policy and planning agency. Ms. Scott was appointed by Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. in February 2013 and reappointed in January 2016 to serve as the Commission's public member. She is the lead Commissioner on transportation and western regional planning, and in 2014 Ms. Scott led the 2014 Integrated Energy Policy Report Update. Ms. Scott serves as the chair of the California Plug-In Electric Vehicle Collaborative, a public/private organization focused on accelerating the adoption of PEVs to meet California's economic, energy and environmental goals. She is also a member of the California Fuel Cell Partnership and the U.S. Department of Energy's Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Technical Advisory Committee. Prior to joining the Energy Commission, Ms. Scott worked at the U.S. Department of the Interior in the Office of the Secretary as the Deputy Counselor for Renewable Energy and at Environmental Defense Fund in both the New York and Los Angeles offices as a senior attorney in the climate and air program. Ms. Scott was also an AmeriCorps member working at the San Francisco Urban Service Project from 1996-1997. Ms. Scott earned her J.D. from the University of Colorado Boulder Law School and her M.S. and B.S. in Earth Systems from Stanford University.
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Mustapha Benmoussa, Ph.D. is a CEO at AGT Nutraceuticals LLC and founder of Atlantic Green Technology, Inc. He received his Ph.D. from Laval University in plant biotechnology and performed post-doctoral research at Indiana University and Purdue University. Dr. Benmoussa occupied different managerial and academic positions along his research and development career. He used biotechnology and processing tools in both fundamental and applied scientific research to develop solutions in nutrition and bioenergy sectors. With his 25 year of experience in plant biotechnology and food science, he developed a microalgae biorefinery technology to produce algae biofuels and high-value chemicals for food, beverages, supplement, cosmetic and energy market.
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Dr. Cinzia Buratti was born in Marsciano (PG, Italy) in 1966. She received her graduation as a Civil Engineer in the year 1990, and continued her Research in Applied Thermodynamics and Heat Transfer from the University of Perugia (Italy). She received her PhD in Applied Physics in the year 1995. She worked as an Assistant professor of Thermodynamics and Heat Transfer and Environmental Control Techniques, 1997 †2004 under the department of Faculty of Engineering in the University of Perugia (Italy). Currently Dr. Cinzia Buratti is working as an Associate professor of Applied Thermodynamics and Heat Transfer and Environmental Control Techniques, from 2005, Faculty of Engineering in the University of Perugia (Italy).
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The research interest of Dr. Cinzia Buratti is followed by - Transparent insulation materials (aerogel) foe energy saving in buildings; - Indoor thermal comfort: instrumental and adaptive approach; - Biomass and bioenergy; - Environmental Impact and Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) of energy chains; - Carbon Footprint of products and processes; - Environmental impact and sustainable energy; - Heat Transfer (thermal resistance of building elements, thermal expansion of materials); - Acoustics (Environmental acoustics, measurements of sound insulation in buildings and of buildings elements); - Natural lighting; - Thermoigrometrical conditions in museums and in presence of works of art; - Water vapour evaporation measurements from free surfaces; - Thermophysical properties of fluids for absorption machines.
