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Stuart M. Dalton
The U.S. State Department has designated Stuart M.
Dalton as one of two official U.S. Asia Pacific
Partnership industry delegates to the Cleaner Fossil
Energy Task Force. Mr. Dalton is a director in the
Generation Sector. His current research activities cover
a variety of generation options with special focus on
emerging generation, renewables, and coal-based
generation, emission controls, and CO2 capture and
storage. He joined EPRI in 1976 and has a bachelor’s
degree in chemical engineering from the University of
California at Berkeley.
Mark S. Duvall
Dr. Mark Duvall’s research as program manager for
electric transportation focuses on electric, plug-in
hybrid and fuel-cell vehicles and related infrastructure.
He is involved in battery systems development and
testing, electric charging infrastructure, and the
environmental analysis of the air quality and
greenhouse gas emissions characteristics of plug-in
hybrids and other electric transportation technologies.
Dr. Duvall joined EPRI in 2001 and holds a doctorate
degree in mechanical engineering from Purdue
University.
Neville Holt
Neville Holt is the recipient of Lifetime Achievement
awards from EPRI and the Gasification Technologies
Council and is a technical fellow in the Advanced Coal
Generation Technology Program. He is the technical
lead for the CoalFleet program of Future Coal
Generation Technology Options. He joined EPRI in
1994 and received his bachelor’s and master’s
degrees in chemistry from Cambridge University.
Christine King
Christine King is program manager of materials
reliability in the Nuclear Power Sector. This program
is the leading industry resource for material-related
issues affecting the reactor coolant system pressure
boundary. The program focuses on improving the
fundamental understanding of materials performance
in pressurized water reactors, and developing
technologies for early detection and mitigation of
emerging issues. With EPRI since 2001 she has a
master’s degree in business administration from
Lynchburg College.
Carl L. Latiolais
Carl Latiolais is program manager for the
Nondestructive Evaluation Program, with a focus on
the American Society of Mechanical Engineers Section
XI, Appendix VIII qualification program. The U.S.
nuclear fleet relies on this program to qualify
procedures and personnel for ultrasonic examination
of safety-related piping and vessels. He joined EPRI in
1994 and has a technical degree in nondestructive
testing technology from T.H. Harris Vocational
Technical School in Louisiana.
Victor Niemeyer
Dr. Victor Niemeyer is a technical executive in the
Global Climate Change Program. His research focuses
on helping energy companies manage risks from global
climate change, particularly cost and competitive market
implications of potential greenhouse gas policies. He
has a doctorate in economics from the University of
Texas at Austin. His fields of emphasis are energy
economics, power market simulation, and environmental
economics.
Ellen M. Petrill
Ellen Petrill is director of public/private partnerships.
She creates partnerships to foster greater
communications and awareness of research and
development trends in the electric sector among
stakeholder groups, regulators, and others. Her
current activities focus on strategies and technologies
to reduce climate change impacts, such as advanced
coal, energy efficiency, the intelligent grid, and
distributed energy resources. She joined EPRI in 1984
and has bachelor’s and master’s degrees in
mechanical engineering from Stanford University.
Andrew J. Phillips
Dr. Andrew Phillips holds three U.S. patents and is the
author of more than 60 journal and conference
publications. He is a senior program manager for
transmission lines and increased power flow research,
focusing on overhead transmission, underground
transmission, increased power flow, and high-voltage
direct current. Special areas of interest are nonceramic insulators, lightning and grounding, sensor
development, and daytime corona inspection. He has a
doctorate in electrical engineering from the University
of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa,
and is a registered professional engineer.
Richard G. Richels
Dr. Richard Richels is a senior technical executive for
global climate change research. He has served on
national and international advisory panels, including
committees of the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE),
the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, and the
National Research Council. He served as an expert
witness at the DOE’s hearings on the National Energy
Strategy and testified at Congressional hearings on
priorities in global climate change research. He was
awarded master’s and doctorate degrees in decision
science from Harvard University’s Division of Applied
Sciences.
Stan T. Rosinski
Stan Rosinski is program manager of technology
innovation, where he is responsible for incubating
technology innovation within EPRI by directing
fundamental, innovative, cross-cutting R&D to
accelerate the application of advanced science and
technology. With EPRI since 1995, he has a
bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering and a
master’s degree in metallurgy from the University of
Nebraska-Lincoln, and received the honorary
Professional Nuclear Engineer degree from the
University of Missouri-Rolla.
John Scheibel
John Scheibel has been awarded several patents and
has authored numerous technical papers. He is a
program manager in the combustion turbines and
combined cycle program, focusing on gas turbine/
combined-cycle design and related operations and
maintenance issues. The program addresses all
50/60-Hz models used in power generation above 20
MW. He joined EPRI in 1987 as a project manager and
has bachelor’s and master’s degrees in mechanical
engineering from the University of Illinois in UrbanaChampaign.
Jack C. Spanner, Jr.
Jack Spanner is a program manager in nondestructive
evaluation, focusing on nuclear reactor vessel head
penetration nozzles, thin-film phased array search
units, eddy current examination of lead sheathed
distribution cable, American Society of Mechanical
Engineers codes, reactor vessel internals inspection
for license renewal, and filmless radiography. He is
also responsible for reactor vessel integrity issues. He
joined EPRI in 1993 and has a master’s degree in
welding engineering from Ohio State University.
Luke van der Zel
Dr. Luke van der Zel is a project manager and
technical expert in the substations program, focusing
on sulfur hexafluoride insulation and leak detection,
gas-insulated substations, power transformers,
geomagnetically induced currents, sensors for
substation monitoring, and wireless applications for
substations. His research extends to field applications
in EPRI member substations. He joined EPRI in 2001
and has bachelor’s and doctorate degrees in electrical
engineering from the University of the Witwatersrand,
Johannesburg, South Africa.
Thomas F. Wilson
Dr. Thomas Wilson is a senior technical leader in global
climate change, focusing on costs of climate change
policies and the role of technology research and
development in reducing these costs; estimating
potential economic benefits from slowing or averting
climate change; exploring flexible mechanisms in
climate policies such as emissions trading; and
providing information and methods to help electric
utilities make decisions in the face of climate policy
uncertainty. He joined EPRI in 1985 and received his
master’s and doctorate degrees in operations research
from Stanford University.